“The folks who own weapons, the folks who own guns, they support universal background checks. The majority of them think we should not be selling assault weapons.”
What Washington Post found
Numerous surveys show that a vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, support enhanced background checks. But Biden went too far in claiming that a majority of gun owners also support a ban on assault weapons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 16 April 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 April 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/16/remarks-by-president…
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