“When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.”
Joe Biden
President. in remarks at the White House. Claim dated 24 May 2022.
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Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 24 May 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Not the whole story”.
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.
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- FactCheck.org: Unclear“The 1994 assault weapons ban "brought down these mass killings.”