The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one of the older anti-gun groups in the country, is apparently taking their cues from Everytown for Gun Safety (a newer anti-gun group) and is now just resorting to making up statistics.

The group claimed that nine children die in the USA everyday due to gunshot wounds (both accidental and intentional). The group even made a big display of the stat recently placing 9 pairs of toddler shoes in a row to drum up the appropriate level of emotion.

However, there is one small problem with that number – it’s completely false. According to PolitiFact (a political fact checking website), that number is actually below 8. The other issue, the Brady campaign considers anyone aged 0-19 to be a “child” for the purposes of their stat.

Eighteen and nineteen year olds are not children by the legal definition of the word, and I personally don’t consider most teenagers to be “children” anymore. At that point they are young men and women who take on certain responsibilities such as driving and part time employment.

PolitiFact agrees that the Brady Campaign’s attempt at emotional spin doctoring is less than honorable and the organization found the claim to be “Mostly False” in their findings. Here is the summary,