Claim: Vice President Joe Biden exaggerates when he waxes nostalgic about the "good old days" -- a time when "everybody, including the NRA, thought background checks made sense." Biden's office says he was referring to the NRA's support for background checks in the early 1990s and its stated support for expanding background checks to include gun shows in 1999.
Fact-check: Biden Revises NRA History on Background Checks - FactCheck.org
Verdict: vice president joe biden exaggerates when he waxes nostalgic about the "good old days" -- a time when "everybody, including the nra, thought background checks made sense." biden's office says he was referring to the nra's support for background checks in the early 1990s and its stated support for expanding background checks to include gun shows in 1999.
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Eugene Kiely
Date published: 2013-04-12T20:48:40