The three-day National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis allowed attendees to carry firearms, except for a two-hour period when former President Donald Trump and other leaders spoke in a hall secured by the Secret Service. Yet, social media posts from a Democratic advocacy group misleadingly claimed that “guns were BANNED at the NRA convention.”
Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office two years ago.
By some counts, about 60% of U.S. counties are so-called “Second Amendment sanctuaries,” which oppose gun laws that they claim are unconstitutional. But that does not necessarily mean that “60% of counties … are refusing to implement the nation’s gun laws,” as Sen. Chris Murphy claimed.
Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.
A TV ad from a gun control advocacy group claims Republican Sen. Ron Johnson voted “against funding for the police, preventing local departments from hiring more officers.” But the two votes cited were against trillion-dollar spending bills that included a host of measures, well beyond law enforcement funding.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
In a prime-time speech to the nation, President Joe Biden spoke about gun violence and his proposals to reduce it. Here, we answer common questions about some of the statistics the president cited and actions he proposed.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
The president stretched the facts on gas prices, jobs, tax cuts and more.
In remarks at a Feb. 3 gun violence prevention task force meeting, President Joe Biden repeated claims about gun rights and gun manufacturing that fact-checkers have previously found to be false.