“The sale of more than 600,000 Wisconsin deer licenses shows that Wisconsin’s hunters are the “eighth largest army in the world.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 23 May 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Wisconsin sold about 569,000 deer licenses that included gun privileges in 2020 to residents and non-residents. A group of 600,000 armed hunters wouldn’t constitute a strikingly large global force, as the post claimed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 June 2022, 379 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/paul.garrisoniii/posts/pfbid02cCxy5S8DsmQ66cGpUCuCqWXbPm6FarkW7x…
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