“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.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. During a White House announcement. Claim dated 23 Jun 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The 2nd amendment limits government, not people.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 23 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 June 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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/2021/06/23/remarks-by-president…
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