WaPost gives Biden four 'Pinocchios' for saying Second Amendment bans cannon ownership

"And I might add: 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. You couldn't buy a cannon," Biden said during a speech on gun violence in America last week.

The Post, citing experts on the Second Amendment and historical documents, reported Biden's assertion about cannons relative to the right to bear and keep arms in the United States is demonstrably false.

ADVERTISEMENT. "Everything in that statement is wrong," David Kopel, research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute, told the Post, adding that after the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, "There were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own."

The Second Amendment states that "a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Biden has made the claim about cannons and the Second Amendment at least once before, the Post noted, telling Wired magazine last year "You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."

The Post awarded Biden four "Pinocchios" for the remarks about cannons and the Second Amendment, the most possible.

"We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim."
 

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