Claim: "By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
Fact-check: Rhode Island legislator Linda Finn says large majority of residents want to ban assault weapons
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2014-04-06T00:00:00