“Every time outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “says the firearm industry ‘is immune from lawsuits,’ it's false.”
Elise Stefanik
U.S. Rep., R-N.Y.. a tweet. Claim dated 6 Jul 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
The gun industry doesn’t have blanket immunity from lawsuits. They can be sued under certain circumstances.
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In short
Elise Stefanik (U.S. Rep., R-N.Y.) made this claim around 6 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 August 2021, 38 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Elise Stefanik has 12 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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