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Latest Fact-Checks In Guns

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Nan Orrock
Nan Orrock
stated on March 4, 2013 a speech
"More than 80 percent of Americans believe we need to have universal background checks."
True
By Eric Stirgus • March 12, 2013
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on March 1, 2013 a TV interview
Research found that "over the course of the existence of the Brady Bill ban, the use of assault weapons in crimes decreased by two thirds."  
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • March 11, 2013
Vicki McKenna
Vicki McKenna
stated on February 18, 2013 a radio talk show broadcast
A proposed ban on hollow-point bullets and bullets that expand upon impact "essentially bans deer hunting."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • March 10, 2013
James Florio
James Florio
stated on February 16, 2013 an interview on Governors' Perspective
"We have over 300,000,000 weapons, firearms in this country. That’s almost as big as the population."
True
By Caryn Shinske • March 7, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on February 26, 2013 a news release
"Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldn't figure out who has a gun."
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • March 7, 2013
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on February 19, 2013 an interview
"You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there."
Mostly True
February 24, 2013
Bill Jackson
Bill Jackson
stated on February 11, 2013 a meeting
"There’s more murders with hammers last year than...shotguns and pistols and AK-47s."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • February 21, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an article in the Daily Caller
Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on February 13, 2013 an interview
"There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • February 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union Address
Says "overwhelming majorities of Americans" support gun legislation "like background checks."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2013
Markel Hutchins
Markel Hutchins
stated on February 4, 2013 an interview
There are twice as many gun shops as McDonald’s in the United States.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • February 11, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on January 26, 2013 a speech
More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 10, 2013
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 a floor speech in the House of Representatives
Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.  
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on January 23, 2013 a press statement
Says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • February 7, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2013 in a speech
"A majority of Americans agree with" a ban on assault weapons. "And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan."  
True
By Janel Davis • February 5, 2013
stated on January 29, 2013 an interview
40 percent of U.S. gun sales "are occurring outside of" licensed gun dealers.  
Half-True
February 4, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 30, 2013 a U.S. Senate committee hearing.
Says the claim that 40 percent of guns are sold without background checks traces to information gathered before background checks were even required.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 4, 2013
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
stated on January 23, 2013 a website post
In 2009, the FBI "referred more than 71,000" cases of people failing background checks when trying to buy a gun to another federal agency, "but U.S. attorneys ultimately prosecuted only 77 of them."
Half-True
February 3, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on January 30, 2013 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee
"As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 a floor speech in the House of Representatives
"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013
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