WaPo nails Biden with four Pinocchios on 2nd Amendment: 'Everything in that statement is wrong' President Joe Biden got nailed by the Washington Post fact-checker over a very dubious statement he made about the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The president made the claim last week in a speech advocating for more gun control in the U.S. Biden was calling for an increase in background checks to prevent guns from getting in the hands of violent criminals when he made an odd digression about the Constitution.
"And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own," Biden interjected. "You couldn't buy a cannon!"
Fact-checkers disagreed.
"Everything in that statement is wrong," said David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute.
Kopel added that originally when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, "there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own," contrary to Biden's claim. ..............
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