“Says 1,000 people failed gun background checks in Wisconsin in 2018, but "almost none of them were prosecuted for trying to do a background check and illegally buy a weapon.”
Robin Vos
Assembly Speaker, R-Rochester. a TV interview. Claim dated 10 Nov 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
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Robin Vos (Assembly Speaker, R-Rochester) made this claim around 10 November 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 November 2019, 16 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Robin Vos has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 12 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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