“In Australia "they went and confiscated all the guns. You know who did what Australia did? Venezuela.”
Matt Gaetz
Republican congressman from Florida. Fox News interview. Claim dated 10 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Matt Gaetz (Republican congressman from Florida) made this claim around 10 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2019, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Matt Gaetz has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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