“You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”
What PolitiFact found
The Biden campaign didn’t offer evidence to support his statement, and historians of the period are dubious laws against private cannon ownership existed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 21 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 June 2020, 39 days later. Its rating was “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.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGrB-5ieeMU
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