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Latest Fact-Checks In Guns

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Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on June 5, 2022 in 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."
False
By Madeline Heim • June 21, 2022
Gun Owners of America
Gun Owners of America
stated on June 8, 2022 in 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!”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • June 17, 2022
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 10, 2022 in in a TV segment:
“Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • June 13, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 4, 2022 in an Instagram post:
White supremacists are going to be “shooting up all Walmarts and will kill Blacks and Mexicans” in San Bernardino, California.
False
By Jeff Cercone • June 8, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 2, 2022 in a speech:
Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.
False
By Samantha Putterman • June 8, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 23, 2021 in 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.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 6, 2022
Andy Biggs
Andy Biggs
stated on June 2, 2022 in 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.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2022
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 25, 2022 in a floor speech:
“The leading cause of death among children is a firearm.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 4, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2022 in a photo on Facebook:
With the $53 billion spent in Ukraine aid, the U.S. “could pay five SWAT members $80,000 each and have them at EVERY school front door.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • June 3, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 25, 2022 in a press conference:
"We need to realize that people who think that ‘well, maybe if we could just implement tougher gun laws, it’s going to solve it,’ Chicago and LA and New York disprove that thesis."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • June 3, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 26, 2022 in a video on Instagram:
Active shooter drill at high school in Uvalde, Texas, two months before the elementary school shooting shows the event was a false flag.
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 28, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The man who killed the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter “wasn't even an on-duty police officer.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 31, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 29, 2022 in 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.
False
By Jeff Cercone • May 31, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 26, 2022 in an interview with Fox News:
In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 26, 2022 in a tweet:
“These mass shootings happen so much that Ted Cruz really got a template ready to tweet whenever they occur.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 27, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 25, 2022 in 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.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • May 27, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 25, 2022 in in a post:
"More people die from hands, fists, feet, than rifles.”
Mostly True
By Jeff Cercone • May 27, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 24, 2022 in un tuit:
ICE está en Uvalde, Texas, “entonces los padres indocumentados tienen que temer la deportación antes de verificar si sus hijos están vivos".
False
By Nusaiba Mizan • May 26, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 24, 2022 in remarks to the media:
“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”
False
By Madison Czopek • May 26, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 24, 2022 in a national address from the White House.:
"When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 25, 2022
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