FACT CHECK: ARE MORE PEOPLE KILLED BY ‘HAMMERS AND FISTS’ THAN AR-15S?

"Parkland student Kyle Kashuv claimed in a Monday tweet that “hammers and fists” are used to kill more people than AR-15s.

The AR-15 is most widely owned rifle in America, owned by at least 10 million people, and is used less times per year to kill people than hammers and fists are used to kill people according to the FBI. Also, according to DHS, handguns are the weapon of choice for mass shooters.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 26, 2018

“The AR-15 … is used less times per year to kill people than hammers and fists are used to kill people,” he tweeted.

Verdict: True

The FBI reports that more people are killed each year using blunt objects or “personal weapons” (fists, hands or feet) than are killed using rifles. Rifles are used in a small fraction of gun homicides...

But rifles are used in only a small fraction of murders committed using firearms..."