The website of Mount Vernon, Washington's home on the Potomac River, also points out the quote is taken out of context.. Our rating: Partly false. We find the claim that George Washington made the ...

President Washington saw the second amendment as a way of protecting our Republic, not as a means to “render it powerless” as that reader suggested.

An image on social media attributes a quote on arms and ammunition to the first president of the United States, George Washington. The quote, however, is partly inaccurate. The image shows a ...