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Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on April 23, 2014 in a press conference:
Roughly 500,000 Georgians -- or about 5 percent of the state’s residents -- have gone through a background check to legally obtain a Georgia weapons carry license.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 6, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2014 in a speech to the NRA:
"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 in a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house:
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on February 14, 2014 in a news release:
Gun "marketplaces" on Facebook mean "ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims • February 27, 2014
Lisa Bloom
Lisa Bloom
stated on January 14, 2014 in an interview with Piers Morgan:
"Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 17, 2014
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on December 3, 2013 in a radio interview:
"The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who don’t legally possess that firearm in the first place."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 15, 2013
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on December 3, 2013 in a news release:
Passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 8, 2013
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 22, 2013 in a Facebook post:
"The nine-day deer hunt contributes more than $1.3 billion in revenue to the state of Wisconsin."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 4, 2013
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on November 19, 2013 in an online campaign video:
"Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent" since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 27, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on September 25, 2013 in a debate.:
Virginia is "the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases."  
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 7, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 in 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
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 in 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
Peter Nightingale
Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 in 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
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 17, 2013 in 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 in 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
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on February 19, 2013 in an editorial board meeting:
Says of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted.
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • March 22, 2013
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on February 27, 2013 in House debate:
Says Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • March 20, 2013
Vicki McKenna
Vicki McKenna
stated on February 18, 2013 in 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
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on February 26, 2013 in 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 in 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
By Tom Kertscher • February 24, 2013
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