“Matt Dolan sponsored Michael Bloomberg's “red-flag gun confiscation law, letting the people reporting your social media posts send SWAT teams to your house to take your guns.”
Ohio Gun Owners
Gun-rights advocacy group. An ad. Claim dated 21 Apr 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A bill would have allowed for guns to be taken from a person if a court determined, in certain situations, that person was a danger to himself or others. It would not have allowed confiscations due to social media posts.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ohio Gun Owners (Gun-rights advocacy group) made this claim around 21 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 May 2022, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&c…
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