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Matt Gaetz
stated on October 6, 2015 a press conference :

"In the states that allow open carry, violent crime was 23 percent lower."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • October 9, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet:

"380 Americans have been killed in 294 mass shootings in 2015 alone."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 her gun policy platform.:

"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • October 8, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 remarks following a school shooting in Oregon:

"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 a New York Times op-ed:

"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015

Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college:

"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 a Facebook post:

Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on October 2, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2015

Mark Kelly
stated on October 4, 2015 an interview on "State of the Union":

"We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • October 4, 2015

Casey Cagle
stated on September 8, 2015 press release:

"Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood."

True

By Nancy Badertscher • September 22, 2015

Eric Bolling
stated on August 27, 2015 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:

"In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 1, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 his column in the New York Times:

"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."

True

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015

Allen West
stated on August 1, 2015 a blog on his website:

The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."

False

By Lauren Carroll • August 4, 2015

Bloggers
stated on July 20, 2015 various conservative websites:

"Obama Makes Huge Move to BAN Social Security Recipients From Owning Guns"

False

By Christian Belanger • July 30, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 17, 2015 a town hall in Carson City, Nevada:

"A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • July 21, 2015

Generation Forward PAC
stated on June 25, 2015 an attack ad.:

"Bernie Sanders voted against the Brady Bill -- background checks and waiting periods."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • July 10, 2015

John Lott
stated on June 24, 2015 comments on Fox News:

"The United States doesn’t have the highest murder rate among developed countries. You look at Russia, you look at Brazil, those are countries that have 3 to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the United States."

Half-True

By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015

Hank Johnson
stated on June 15, 2015 a House floor speech:

"Two weeks ago, a man entered the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a loaded AR-15 automatic weapon with an extended-capacity, 100-round magazine."

Half-True

By April Hunt • June 23, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 a tweet:

"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

Mostly False

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

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