President Joe Biden has again repeated a gun-control talking point that has been fact-checked several times over the years.
Speaking to reporters this week, Biden said that Second Amendment didn’t allow for private ownership of cannons when it was adopted in the Bill of Rights.
“The Second Amendment was never absolute,” he said, according to a transcript released by the White House. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
According to the text of the Second Amendment, “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.”…