Latest Fact-Checks In Guns

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Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on April 17, 2025 a Threads post
“Gun violence is the leading killer of college-aged people in the U.S.”
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By Loreben Tuquero • April 22, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on May 30, 2024 a post
Under federal law, former President Donald Trump’s “felony convictions mean he can no longer possess guns.”
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By Sara Swann • May 31, 2024
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on November 15, 2022 Twitter
In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years."
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By D.L. Davis • December 9, 2022
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on October 10, 2022 an ad
“Kari Lake is opposed to red flag laws.”
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By Renee Romo • November 9, 2022
A Better Wisconsin Together
A Better Wisconsin Together
stated on September 12, 2022 Campaign ad
Says Tim Michels "opposes closing the loophole that allows domestic abusers to buy guns."
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By D.L. Davis • October 24, 2022
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on June 16, 2022 a tweet.
“In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.”
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By Warren Fiske • June 24, 2022
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on April 9, 2022 TV interview
In a recent year, the Milwaukee Police Department "collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York.”
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By Vanessa Swales • May 24, 2022
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell
stated on January 22, 2021 public comments
"86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check."
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March 12, 2021
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 an MSNBC interview
“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”
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By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 26, 2020 a Fox News town hall in Des Moines
"More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks." 
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By Amy Sherman • January 29, 2020
Josh Kaul
Josh Kaul
stated on August 15, 2019 a tweet
Says people convicted of felonies or under restraining orders "can buy a firearm without going through a background check."
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By Eric Litke • September 13, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on September 4, 2019 an interview
"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • September 9, 2019
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on August 26, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
Florida’s red flag gun law has been used "about five times a day."
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By Amy Sherman • September 3, 2019
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 11, 2019 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago."
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By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on August 3, 2019 a press conference
Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 (murders per year). We exceeded that average just on one day" after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.
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By Madlin Mekelburg • August 5, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on May 19, 2019 an interview
"We beat the NRA with tough, tough gun laws" in Colorado.  
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May 30, 2019
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on January 9, 2019 a speech.
On extreme-risk guns laws, "This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors."  
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By Warren Fiske • January 23, 2019
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on August 7, 2018 remarks during a press conference
"If you are a gun store owner and you decide to go out of business … you right now are allowed to convert your entire gun store inventory to ‘personal use’ and once it is a personal use weapon, you can sell it without background checks."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 26, 2018
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on May 20, 2018 an interview on ABC News, "This Week"
"It’s against the law in Texas to let any loaded gun get in the hands of a child."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 13, 2018 remarks at a rally
"Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners."
True
By Dan Clark • March 16, 2018
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