"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed," President Biden said, "limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could use. You couldn't buy a cannon."
The President is probably wrong on that, or at least wrong on the part about what type of weapons could be purchased privately. He made the same claim in 2020 while running for president -- and got shot down for it. "From the very beginning, you weren't allowed to have certain weapons," he said. "You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."
The fact-checkers were all over it. Politifact ruled it false. The Austin American-Statesman rated the statement false. This time Biden said it, others joined in decrying the statement as false. Warisboring.com said Biden was "seemingly unaware that cannons and warships have been covered under the Second Amendment since its creation.
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