“Joe Biden uses the ATF to illegally track your gun transactions.”
What PolitiFact found
Gun rights supporters worry that the ATF will create a national gun registry, but there is no evidence that it actually has. The GAO found that the ATF follows the law.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio) made this claim around 7 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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