Biden’s claim about trucks pulling up and selling AR-15s in Philadelphia is not true.

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Earlier this month, during the National Safer Communities Summit, President Joe Biden once again spread misinformation about guns in the country. He claimed that people in Philadelphia sold AR-15s out of trucks that “pulled up to the curb.”

I live in Philadelphia and spent significantly more time there than Biden. He doesn’t know Philadelphia better than I do. Bad things happen in Philadelphia, and I have seen plenty of them, but not once have I ever seen a truck pull up selling AR-15s.

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