“Universal background checks involve asking people "to submit the serial numbers to their guns to a state or federal official," and that violates the Second Amendment.”
Scott Fitzgerald
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader, Republican. an appearance on WISN-TV's 'UpFront'. Claim dated 22 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
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Scott Fitzgerald (Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader, Republican) made this claim around 22 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 October 2019, 12 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Scott Fitzgerald has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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