“You go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check.”
What PolitiFact found
If you go to a gun show and buy a firearm from a federally licensed seller, you will have to pass a background check. You would only escape a background check at a gun show if you buy from an unlicensed seller.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 8 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 April 2021. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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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