Statement·other·said 2019-09-12
“54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster.”
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Mixedby PolitiFact
2019-09-13Reasoning
54 senators supported the 2013 Manchin-Toomey background check bill, but only 40 backed the assault weapons ban — Warren conflated the two roll calls.
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