Biden Repeats Debunked Claim That Americans Can’t Buy A Cannon. You Can Absolutely Buy A Cannon.
During his speech, Biden said:
This doesn’t doesn’t violate anybody’s Second Amendment right…You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to buy certain assault weapons.
This isn’t the first time Biden has made this false claim. In June 2021, he made a similar statement, saying “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.”
Back then, The Washington Post’s fact checker gave Biden’s statement four pinocchios, the most a statement can receive. Biden has apparently changed his claim over the years, but has never gotten it right. In 2020, he people “weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual,” which also isn’t true. At the time he made the claim, historians told PolitiFact that no evidence existed to support Biden’s claim, and Biden’s campaign couldn’t provide any.
So true.