“Waiting periods for gun purchases may not make a difference, because "If somebody's decided that they're gonna take their life, they're gonna take their life.”
Van Wanggaard
Wisconsin state Sen.. TV interview. Claim dated 5 Jun 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Van Wanggaard (Wisconsin state Sen.) made this claim around 5 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 June 2022, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Van Wanggaard has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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