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Latest Fact-Checks On Wayne LaPierre

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Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 24, 2017 a speech at CPAC:
"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on March 24, 2013 an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press:
Says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says "we can only have three bullets" and "the NRA wants firearms with nukes on them."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • March 26, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an article in the Daily Caller:
Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an op-ed for the Daily Caller:
"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an op-ed in the Daily Caller:
"Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Ciara O'Rourke • February 19, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on January 30, 2013 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
"As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on April 14, 2012 a speech to a national meeting of the National Rifle Association:
"By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2012
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 10, 2012 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:
Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2012
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 27, 2009 a CPAC conference:
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, "wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009