“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
Joe Biden
President. in remarks on gun violence at the White House. Claim dated 23 Jun 2021.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
No such ban on cannons existed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 23 June 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 June 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Four 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.
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