Claim: A decision by the Justice Department under the Obama administration forced the FBI to purge the names of 500,000 fugitives from justice from the background check database for firearms purchases.
Fact-check: Did Obama's Justice Department Force the FBI to Delete 500,000 Fugitives from a Background Check Database?
Verdict: Mixture
Organisation: Snopes
Author: David Emery
Date published: 2018-03-17T16:47:11