Claim: "If there is a firearm available, it is 17 times more likely to be used either for suicide or for assaulting a friend, relative, an acquaintance than it is to be used in fending off an intruder."
Fact-check: Soglin's gun claim hits a bit outside the target
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Taylor Palmby
Date published: 2018-07-12T00:00:00