Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Bloggers
stated on March 14, 2018 a post on Facebook:

Shoes on the Capitol lawn represent 7,182 students who were killed in U.S. schools since 2012.

By Allison Graves • March 16, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2018 an audio ad distributed to news organizations:

Says Beto O’Rourke wants "open borders and wants to take our guns."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018

Liberty Headlines
stated on March 7, 2018 a headline:

"Seattle police begin gun confiscations: no laws broken, no warrant, no charges."

By Amy Sherman • March 14, 2018

David Simmons
stated on March 3, 2018 a vote in the Florida senate:

"Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30, 1934, sent out his secret police and murdered all of his political opponents."

By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2018

Michael Williams
stated on February 27, 2018 a CNN interview:

Says Delta offers a discount to Planned Parenthood.

By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2018 in a meeting:

"You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did."

By John Kruzel • March 1, 2018

Rick Scott
stated on February 23, 2018 a press conference:

Says Sen. Bill Nelson "hasn’t done anything on gun safety or school safety, and nothing on gun control."

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2018

Matt Caldwell
stated on February 21, 2018 an interview on CNN:

"A law enforcement officer is more likely to commit a crime than a CWP (concealed weapons permit) holder."

By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 18, 2018 a statement on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks."

By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018

Jeanne Ives
stated on January 15, 2018 a campaign statement:

Says President Barack Obama advocated "fathers in the home" as the solution to gun violence.

By Brett Chase • January 26, 2018

Brendan Boyle
stated on December 5, 2017 a tweet:

Says the concealed carry bill would allow residents of certain states to "travel to your community and walk right into a school zone with a loaded weapon, no matter what local laws say."

By John Kruzel • December 7, 2017

Michael Williams
stated on October 17, 2017 press release:

"Many firearms experts determined the Las Vegas shooter’s use of a bump stock actually prevented more casualties and (injuries) due to its inconsistency, inaccuracy, and lack of control."

By Allison Colburn • November 13, 2017

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2017 a speech at the University of California at Davis:

"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."

By Chris Nichols • October 10, 2017

Chris Cox
stated on October 8, 2017 a "Fox News Sunday" interview:

Says Sen. Dianne Feinstein said "if she had 51 votes in the Senate for 'Mr. and Ms. America, turn in all of your guns,' they would do it."

By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2017

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 2, 2017 a tweet:

"The crowd (in Las Vegas) fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer ..."

By Manuela Tobias • October 4, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on August 7, 2017 a press release:

Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."

By Matt Dietrich • August 16, 2017

Richard Corcoran
stated on July 3, 2017 a tweet:

Says Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch "is constantly overturned."

By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2017

Hannah Willard
stated on March 16, 2017 a press conference in the Florida Capitol:

"Experts estimate that 40 percent of gun sales occur in no-questions-asked transactions that often take place at gun shows or on the Internet."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2017

Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 her Senate confirmation hearing:

"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."

By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017

Greg Abbott
stated on December 13, 2016 a tweet:

Says an arms control treaty supported by Barack Obama "could give the U.N. some authority to regulate guns."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 22, 2016

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