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Latest Fact-Checks In Guns

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Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on February 18, 2018 an interview:
"There are more guns in this country than there are people."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 20, 2018
Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier
stated on February 10, 2018 a tweet:
"3 American women are murdered every day by their husband or boyfriend."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • February 19, 2018
usdeplorablesnews.com
usdeplorablesnews.com
stated on February 15, 2018 a fake news blog post:
Says Michelle Obama said Florida shooting "is clearly our president’s fault."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2018
Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield
stated on February 14, 2018 a tweet:
"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 15, 2018
Joy Reid
Joy Reid
stated on February 14, 2018 a tweet:
"One-third of Floridians own guns. One-third."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves, Amy Sherman • February 15, 2018
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh
stated on January 17, 2018 a press conference:
"New York has the third lowest rate of gun-caused death in America."
True
By Dan Clark • February 1, 2018
Jeanne Ives
Jeanne Ives
stated on January 15, 2018 a campaign statement:
Says President Barack Obama advocated "fathers in the home" as the solution to gun violence.
False
By Brett Chase • January 26, 2018
Brendan Boyle
Brendan Boyle
stated on December 5, 2017 a tweet:
Says the concealed carry bill would allow residents of certain states to "travel to your community and walk right into a school zone with a loaded weapon, no matter what local laws say."
False
By John Kruzel • December 7, 2017
Nick Schroer
Nick Schroer
stated on October 17, 2017 a tweet:
"FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind."
Mostly True
By Katelyn Brown • November 18, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 6, 2017 a conference call:
"Bump stocks are already illegal in the state of New York. You can't buy one."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • November 17, 2017
Michael Williams
Michael Williams
stated on October 17, 2017 press release:
"Many firearms experts determined the Las Vegas shooter’s use of a bump stock actually prevented more casualties and (injuries) due to its inconsistency, inaccuracy, and lack of control."
False
By Allison Colburn • November 13, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News:
"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 Fox News interview:
"The Democrats filibustered the legislation that would’ve resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • November 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 7, 2017 a press conference in South Korea:
Chicago is "the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 7, 2017
Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Milano
stated on November 5, 2017 a tweet:
"There are no background checks on long guns (AR15s) in Texas."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • November 6, 2017
FreedomJunkshun.com
FreedomJunkshun.com
stated on November 6, 2017 a blog post:
Says "FBI and Texas State Police are both confirming that Raymond Peter Littleberry, the man accused of shooting up a Texas church, was an avid atheist on the payroll of the Democrat National Committee."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • November 6, 2017
Stacey Newman
Stacey Newman
stated on October 2, 2017 a Missourinet article:
"Part of this omnibus gun bill that year (was) legalizing machine guns in the state of Missouri."
Half-True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • November 3, 2017
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 4, 2017 a Facebook post:
"People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • October 25, 2017
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on October 8, 2017 in an interview:
"Background checks have been unequivocally shown to reduce gun violence."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • October 11, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2017 a speech at the University of California at Davis:
"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."
False
By Chris Nichols • October 10, 2017
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