“There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens.”
Bernie Sanders
2020 presidential candidate; U.S. senator, I-Vt.. Remarks posted on Twitter. Claim dated 5 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
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Bernie Sanders (2020 presidential candidate; U.S. senator, I-Vt.) made this claim around 5 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 August 2019, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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