“Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. Claim dated 2 Jun 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The gun industry is not entirely exempt from being sued and is susceptible to some lawsuits. There are a number of federal laws that restrict liability for a variety of other business sectors.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 2 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 June 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
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