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Durbin

Says "90% of policemen are for" expanding background checks to all gun sales.

— PolitiFact Illinois on Friday, October 4th, 2019

Mostly False

Second Amendment misfire

Fitzgerald

Scott Fitzgerald

Universal background checks involve asking people "to submit the serial numbers to their guns to a state or federal official," and that violates the Second Amendment.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, October 4th, 2019

False

But school shootings are rare in Israel

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Since Israel started training teachers with guns, "there have only been two school shootings in 44 years and both shooters were killed by teachers."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Pants on Fire!

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Says an 11-year-old girl shot and killed two armed "illegal aliens" after they broke into her home in Montana.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, September 24th, 2019

Mostly True

Depends on the warrant

Hinojosa

"You can have an active warrant for your arrest for murder and legally pass a background check system in the state of Texas" to purchase a gun.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 20th, 2019