“We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was the law for the longest time. And it brought down these mass killings.”
What Washington Post found
For years, the 1994 law was seen as largely ineffective. But new research bolsters the argument that the ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines had an impact on mass shootings.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 23 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 March 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Evidence gets stronger”.
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/2021/03/23/remarks-by-president…
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Related checks
- FactCheck.org: Unclear“The 1994 assault weapons ban "brought down these mass killings.”