Claim: The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.
Fact-check: NRA says Manchin-Toomey would have criminalized some gun transfers between family, friends
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Molly Moorhead
Date published: 2013-04-18T00:00:00