Latest Fact-Checks In Guns

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Mark Kelly
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."
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By Linda Qiu • October 4, 2015
John Lott
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."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015
Hank Johnson
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."
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By April Hunt • June 23, 2015
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
stated on January 9, 2015 an open letter
"Black people are eight times more likely to be arrested than white people" in Madison.
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March 9, 2015
Marjorie Sanfilippo
Marjorie Sanfilippo
stated on February 16, 2015 a Florida Senate criminal justice committee hearing
"200,000 students attempt suicide every year on college campuses."
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By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2015
Lori Haas
Lori Haas
stated on January 19, 2015 a news conference
In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns "49 percent fewer women are shot and killed."  
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By Sean Gorman • February 16, 2015
Alfonso Lopez
Alfonso Lopez
stated on January 19, 2015 a floor speech.
Ronald Reagan "banned ownership of fully automatic rifles. He supported the assault weapons ban."
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By Warren Fiske • February 4, 2015
John Stone
John Stone
stated on April 23, 2014 campaign website and YouTube video
Says he’s "the only licensed firearms dealer in America running for Congress."  
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By Nancy Badertscher • May 14, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 18, 2014 a public meeting
Even though Chicago has "the most stringent gun laws on the books," it still "has the highest murder rate" in the country.
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March 2, 2014
Mary Margaret Oliver
Mary Margaret Oliver
stated on February 18, 2014 a meeting
More than 80 percent of Georgians don’t support legislation to ease gun restrictions in houses of worship, in bars and on campuses.
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By Eric Stirgus • February 26, 2014
Larry Pratt
Larry Pratt
stated on December 15, 2013 in comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday"
A gun "background check is futile. Something like 42 (people during the) last year … were prosecuted for trying to buy a gun with a criminal record out of 11 million."
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By Steve Contorno • December 15, 2013
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 7, 2013 a donation web page
Wendy Davis is "fighting to bring ... Bloomberg-style gun control to Texas."
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By Sue Owen • November 8, 2013
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton
stated on September 16, 2013 a press conference
"There are more guns than there are people in the United States."
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By Julie Kliegman • September 19, 2013
S.E. Cupp
S.E. Cupp
stated on September 13, 2013 a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"
"The CDC issued a report commissioned by President Obama just earlier this year, and it found some very inconvenient facts. Armed citizens are less likely harmed by attackers. Effectiveness of gun control laws is mixed. Gun buybacks don't work."
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By Becky Bowers • September 18, 2013
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
stated on September 12, 2013 a press release
An average of seven children in America are killed by guns every day.
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By Eric Stirgus • September 18, 2013
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
stated on July 25, 2013 a web ad.
"Rep. Frank Wolf voted to allow terror suspects to buy guns."
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By Nancy Madsen • September 6, 2013
Reclaim America PAC
Reclaim America PAC
stated on May 14, 2013 a TV ad
Says Kelly Ayotte voted to "fix background checks."
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By Molly Moorhead • May 15, 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.
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By Nancy Madsen • May 1, 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."
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By Michael McKinney • April 23, 2013
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 14, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2013
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