Gun group's health care claim is low on ammo
By Louis Jacobson
Published on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 4:45 p.m.
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The Baucus health care bill "could be used to ban guns in home self-defense."
Gun Owners of America, Friday, October 9th, 2009.
Ruling: False | Details
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No, the Democratic health care plan won't target gun owners.
The Gun Owners of America has recently taken aim at an unlikely subject: health care reform.
In the last few weeks, GOA has sent out several action alerts to members criticizing the health care reform bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee last week. The bill, authored by Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., was supported by all of the committee's Democrats, as well as Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. It will now be merged with another Senate health care bill and go to the full Senate.
On Oct. 9, 2009, the day before the Finance Committee began voting on amendments to the Baucus bill, GOA sent an alert to members titled, "ObamaCare Could be Used to Ban Guns in Home Self-Defense." We examined the claim and found little to back it up. We rated the claim False.
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