Claim: "There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."
Fact-check: Private citizens have more assault weapons than US military?
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Tom Kertscher
Date published: 2019-08-08T00:00:00