“The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws” while “the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws.”
What PolitiFact found
Data shows some correlation between looser gun laws and higher gun homicide rates in a state, and vice versa. But that relationship does not always hold true.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Murphy (U.S. Senator, D-Conn.) made this claim around 3 April 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 April 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Chris Murphy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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