Fact-checking websites ranked a claim made by President Joe Biden that the Second Amendment had banned citizens from owning cannons as false. During remarks about new gun-control measures last week, Biden said, “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.” However, some experts said that the president’s assertion is categorically false. “Everything in that statement is wrong,” David Kopel, research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute, told the Washington Post. He added that when the Second Amendment was ratified, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.” In the 2020 campaign, Biden made a similar comment relating to the Second Amendment and who …
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