CNN fact-checked two weeks of President Joe Biden’s statements on guns and found at least six false claims on June 21, 2023.
According to CNN, the first of the six false claims was Biden’s assertion that his son, Beau, was the first to enforce a red flag law as an attorney general. (Beau served as attorney general of Delaware prior to his death.)
CNN noted, “Biden’s claim is false. Delaware did not have a red flag law when Beau Biden was state attorney general from 2007 to 2015.”
The next two false claims both centered on AR-pistol stabilizer braces, which Biden claimed transform pistols into guns. Biden also claimed such braces make pistols shoot “higher caliber” bullets.
CNN noted, “Biden’s claims that a stabilizing brace turns a pistol into a gun and increases the caliber of a gun or bullet are false.”
It further observed that “a pistol is, obviously, already a gun,” and changing a rear stock does not change the caliber of a gun.
The fourth false claim was Biden’s assertion that gun manufacturers are “the only industry in America you can’t sue.”
