Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Facebook posts
stated on February 13, 2023 a Facebook post

The Michigan State University shooter is a 21-year-old man named Lynn Dee Walker.

By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2023

Mark Obenshain
stated on January 31, 2023 a floor speech.

“You know how many children are dying across Virginia because of fentanyl poisoning? A heck of a lot more than are dying at the hands of guns.”

By Warren Fiske • February 7, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on November 8, 2022 a video

“They removed your ability to go buy firearms the day of election.”

By Andy Nguyen • December 2, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on October 17, 2022 an Instagram post

There were two shooters in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

October 21, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on July 28, 2022 an Instagram post

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats "want to turn 150 million Americans into felons overnight" with HR 1808.

By Andy Nguyen • August 3, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2022 an image on Facebook

“The gunman at Greenwood Park Mall was a CIA asset.”

By Madison Czopek • July 22, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2022 a Facebook post

Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, “bought the gun illegally.”

By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on July 5, 2022 a tweet

Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.

By Bill McCarthy • July 5, 2022

Greg Gutfeld
stated on June 23, 2022 a TV segment

No one “with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting."

By Bill McCarthy • June 28, 2022

Van Wanggaard
stated on June 5, 2022 TV interview

Waiting periods for gun purchases may not make a difference, because "If somebody's decided that they're gonna take their life, they're gonna take their life."

By Madeline Heim • June 21, 2022

Gun Owners of America
stated on June 8, 2022 a tweet

“U.S. House of Reps. votes 226-194 to criminalize disassembling, cleaning, and re-assembling your gun without a firearm manufacturer’s license, including 8 Republicans!”

By Gabrielle Settles • June 17, 2022

Tucker Carlson
stated on June 10, 2022 in a TV segment

“Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.”

By Samantha Putterman • June 13, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on June 4, 2022 an Instagram post

White supremacists are going to be “shooting up all Walmarts and will kill Blacks and Mexicans” in San Bernardino, California.

June 8, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on June 2, 2022 a speech

Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.

By Samantha Putterman • June 8, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on May 23, 2021 a Facebook post

The sale of more than 600,000 Wisconsin deer licenses shows that Wisconsin’s hunters are the “eighth largest army in the world.”

By Madison Czopek • June 6, 2022

Andy Biggs
stated on June 2, 2022 an opening statement at a House hearing

The U.S. Justice Department “conservatively estimated that guns are used 1.5 million times per year to save lives.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on May 28, 2022 a Facebook post

The man who killed the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter “wasn't even an on-duty police officer.”

By Samantha Putterman • May 31, 2022

X posts
stated on May 29, 2022 a tweet

TV interviews with two different men who are each identified as Uvalde victim's father show the Robb Elementary School mass shooting was staged.

May 31, 2022

X posts
stated on May 26, 2022 a tweet

“These mass shootings happen so much that Ted Cruz really got a template ready to tweet whenever they occur.”

By Samantha Putterman • May 27, 2022

Marco Rubio
stated on May 25, 2022 an interview on CNN

“There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 27, 2022

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