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Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 12, 2013 a document shared via email and social media
A United Nations working group has "adopted a proposed agenda" to enable member nations to "disarm civilians within their borders."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2013
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on June 8, 2013 a blog post
Says in Texas "it's legal to shoot someone who's committing a ‘public nuisance’ under the cover of dark."
False
By Sue Owen • July 18, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 an op-ed in USA Today
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on June 22, 2013 a speech
"When I was growing up as a kid in the city of Milwaukee, if we averaged 4 homicides a year in the entire city that was a record number."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 3, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 21, 2013 a meme on social media
"There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the U.K.," compared to "466 violent crimes per 100,000" in the United States.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2013
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 18, 2013 a tweet from Barack Obama's Twitter feed
"Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2013
Harry Alford
Harry Alford
stated on February 22, 2013 a news conference
The National Rifle Association was "founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan."
Pants on Fire!
June 5, 2013
Peter Nightingale
Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 a web commentary
"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • May 31, 2013
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund
stated on May 19, 2013 a television ad
A law that mandates fingerprinting for gun purchasers is "a requirement that's reduced gun crimes in the five states where it's the law."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2013
Reclaim America PAC
Reclaim America PAC
stated on May 14, 2013 a TV ad
Says Kelly Ayotte voted to "fix background checks."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • May 15, 2013
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on May 9, 2013 an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2013
Ed Doyle
Ed Doyle
stated on April 25, 2013 a news release and Facebook post
Proposed gun control legislation "will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database" and make it "nearly impossible" to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 5, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on April 19, 2013 an appearance on 10 News Conference
"If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you've engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks."
True
By Michael McKinney • May 4, 2013
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 14, 2013 a TV appearance.
Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • May 1, 2013
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on April 9, 2013
On allowing a vote on universal gun background checks in the U.S. Senate.
No Flip
By Eric Stirgus • April 26, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on April 12, 2013 a TV interview
Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • April 23, 2013
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 17, 2013 a speech on the Senate floor
"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • April 22, 2013
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on April 12, 2013 a debate on WPRI's "Newsmakers program"
If an individual is determined "to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor" because they will find a way.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 remarks in the White House Rose Garden
A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2013
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