While discussing gun control during Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden misquoted statistics about how many Americans had been killed by gun violence since 2007.

His comments came during an exchange with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders about the progressive candidate’s support of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which protects the gun manufacture and distribution industry against civil liability actions brought over the misuse of the weapons by others.

“I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA,” Sanders said. “Thirty years ago, I likely lost a race for the one seat in Congress in Vermont because 30 years ago I supported a ban on assault weapons. Right now, my view is we need to expand background checks, end the gun show loophole and do what the American people want, not what the NRA wants.”

Biden reminded the crowd that he “got assault weapons banned.” He said: “I got magazines that could not hold more than 19 rounds in them. I got them eliminated. Except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida and it was not reauthorized.

“Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies, we give immunity to tobacco companies,” Biden continued. “That has caused carnage on our streets.”

“150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability,” Biden added. “More than all the wars including Vietnam from that point on.”

Data from the National Archives indicates that 58,220 U.S. soldiers were killed during the Vietnam War. Roughly over 7,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in action during military actions in the Middle East, according to the Department of Defense.

With the U.S. Census Bureau reporting a population of 327.2 million people in the country in 2018, Biden’s figure would equate to approximately one half of the current U.S. population being killed by gun violence since 2007.

Newsweek reached out to Biden’s campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

Biden’s campaign later confirmed to CNN that Biden had mistakenly mentioned the wrong number.

“Biden campaign tells [CNN economic policy reporter] @KatieLobosco he misspoke when he said “150 million” people have been killed since a Sanders vote in “2007” (2005) to shield gunmakers from certain liability — the campaign says he meant to refer to *150,000* people killed in firearm homicides since then,” tweeted CNN reporter Daniel Dale.