evidence: In January 2020, as a high-profile, gun-rights rally unfolded in Virginia, a quote ostensibly uttered by U.S. President George Washington concerning a citizen's right to bear arms recirculated on social media: [...] For this alleged quote, the Mount Vernon library writes that it has "yet to find an explanation for this misquote or a similar quote of Washington's that was confused for this statement." We too were unable to find any credible source for this quote. It does not appear in "The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot," a biography published in 1999 that contains many of Washington's most famous phrases. Our search of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington also turned up nothing.