“Jim Justice “supports banning sporting rifles for law-abiding citizens.”
What PolitiFact found
Mooney’s statement cherry picks and exaggerates a comment Justice made in a 2022 briefing. Even then, he did not say he wanted to ban all sporting rifles for all ages.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alex Mooney (GOP Senate candidate) made this claim around 21 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 October 2023, 64 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Alex Mooney has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- vote.mooneyforwv.comhttps://vote.mooneyforwv.com/phonyjustice
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