Dang PolitiFact putting the beat down on Biden!
Dang PolitiFact putting the beat down on Biden! The honeymoon is over! Biden has no idea what he is doing, saying or what day it is. He continuously misrepresents and makes fake claims about history. The man needs to go back to grade school and spend a year or two in American history. @Biden you have Been involved in government since 1973! It would be nice if you knew a little bit about it.
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"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.”
“Joe Biden gets history wrong on the Second Amendment limiting gun ownership
If Your Time is short
The Second Amendment limited governmental power, not the right of individuals to own a weapon.
Laws at the time that limited firearm ownership were primarily racist, aimed at controlling Black people and Native Americans.
The first national gun regulation law in 1934 did not rely on the Second Amendment.”
During the campaign, Biden made a similar claim about cannons in the Revolutionary War and who could own them. We rated that False.
This time, on top of that, Biden misrepresents what the Second Amendment says.
"The first federal gun control law does not appear until the 20th century," Johnson said.
That law, the National Firearms Act, came in 1934 when machine guns were the weapon of choice of Prohibition Era gangsters. (The law was drafted before Prohibition ended in 1933.)
When U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings made the case for the law before the House Ways and Means Committee, he based it on the government’s power to tax and regulate interstate commerce, not the Second Amendment.
"Both believed the greatest danger to the new republic was tyrannical government and that the ultimate check on tyranny was an armed population," Vandercoy wrote in 1994.
We rate Biden’s claim False.
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