Fact Checkers: Biden Claim That Second Amendment Bans Cannon Ownership Is False

President Joe Biden, speaks about the infrastructure deal from the East Room of the White House on June 24, 2021. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Fact-checking websites ranked a claim made by President Joe Biden that the Second Amendment had banned citizens from owning cannons as false.

During remarks made last week about new gun-control measures, Biden said: “And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”