PolitiFact: Michael Moore’s claims on guns, home invasions ‘mostly false’

By Andrew Shepperson

Documentary filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore is not a fan of the 2nd Amendment. (Photo: YouTube)
PolitiFact has called out liberal activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for some claims he made in a Facebook post calling for the Second Amendment to be repealed and replaced after the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Specifically, critics honed in on Moore’s claim regarding guns and self defense, in which he argued that a very small percentage of homicides occurred during home invasions.
“One’s guns must be stored at a licensed gun club or government-regulated gun storage facility,” Moore said. “Believing that having a gun in your home provides you with protection is an American myth. People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the US. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them.”
PolitiFact found several issues with this talking point and first noted that the term “home invasion” is not used in all crime tracking systems. Also, if the term is used, there is no universal standard for how it is applied and so is often reclassified under other crimes the suspects

Source: Guns.com