“Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun, five times — is lighter — and can pierce Kevlar?”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. remarks on Safer America plan in Wilkes-Barre, Penn.. Claim dated 30 Aug 2022.
Washington Post rated thisWrong
What Washington Post found
Biden bungled his talking point -- he should have said two times faster.
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 30 August 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 September 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/30/remarks-by-president…
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