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Michael Williams
stated on February 27, 2018 a CNN interview:

Says Delta offers a discount to Planned Parenthood.

False

By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2018

Tom Cole
stated on February 28, 2018 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Probably one out of every two households in Oklahoma has a gun."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 22, 2018 an interview :

Says 97 percent of gun owners support universal background checks.

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2018 in a meeting:

"You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did."

False

By John Kruzel • March 1, 2018

Rick Scott
stated on February 23, 2018 a press conference:

Says Sen. Bill Nelson "hasn’t done anything on gun safety or school safety, and nothing on gun control."

False

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2018

Marco Rubio
stated on February 22, 2018 a tweet:

"Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned"

True

By Dan Clark • February 28, 2018

Dana Loesch
stated on February 25, 2018 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2018

Tim Ryan
stated on February 20, 2018 an interview on CNN:

"Seventy to 80 percent of NRA members support a universal background check."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • February 27, 2018

Nancy Rotering
stated on February 11, 2018 an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times:

"It’s now constitutional to ban [assault weapons] in Illinois. Yet, the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity."

True

By Brett Chase • February 27, 2018

Paul Ryan
stated on February 15, 2018 a briefing with reporters:

We "have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2018

Matt Caldwell
stated on February 21, 2018 an interview on CNN:

"A law enforcement officer is more likely to commit a crime than a CWP (concealed weapons permit) holder."

False

By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2018

Ted Deutch
stated on February 21, 2018 a CNN town hall:

"Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • February 23, 2018

Larry Pittman
stated on February 15, 2018 a Facebook post:

"So many of these shooters turn out to be communist Democrats."

Pants on Fire!

By Dan Clark, Paul Specht • February 23, 2018

Claudia Tenney
stated on February 21, 2018 a radio interview:

"So many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats."

Pants on Fire!

By Dan Clark, Paul Specht • February 23, 2018

Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on February 22, 2018 a tweet:

Says NRA head Wayne LaPierre said, "We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools. Period."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2018

Philip Levine
stated on February 20, 2018 a TV ad:

"Here in Florida, despite 14 school shootings in eight years, we still have some of the weakest gun laws in the nation."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • February 23, 2018

Giffords
stated on February 20, 2018 a TV ad:

"Gov. Rick Scott made it illegal for a doctor to ask a patient if they owned a gun, even a mental health professional. This law was so dangerous that a court had to strike it down."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2018

Viral image
stated on February 18, 2018 on the Internet:

In most states, you can buy an assault rifle with no proof of ID, but in every state, you need proof of ID to vote.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2018

Bloggers
stated on February 21, 2018 multiple posts and blogs on the Internet:

Say David Hogg is a crisis actor.

Pants on Fire!

By Allison Graves • February 21, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 18, 2018 a statement on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks."

False

By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018

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