PolitiFact’s Assault Rifle Fact-Check Is Short on Actual Facts

PolitiFact’s Assault Rifle Fact-Check Is Short on Actual Facts
Once again, Politifact gets it wrong. Terminology matters. "Johnson’s statement was that assault rifles were banned. But in its conclusion– and the fact-check leading up to that conclusion– PolitiFact treats it as though Johnson said assault weapons are banned. PolitiFact argues that the two are the same, when they refer to completely different types of weapons. (How they managed to fact-check a five-word statement and get one of the words entirely wrong is beyond me)."