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  • 2016-01-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Connecticut Begins Sending Gun Confiscation Letters (en)
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  • In January 2015, social media users began sharing an article published by Truth and Action, titled CONNECTICUT GUN CONFISCATION LETTERS NOW CONFIRMED BY FOX. It held: Concurrent social media interest in a July 2015 rumor about gun confiscation lent the impression to many readers that January 2016 ushered in a new wave of secretive gun grab measures. But the Truth and Action article dated back to March 2014, and was nearly two years old at the time of its recirculation. Between March 2014 and January 2016, no major gun confiscation occurred in Connecticut. The article cited Fox News as its source, but deeply misrepresented the material from which its claims were derived. The 15 March 2015 article, attributed to the Associated Press and syndicated by Fox News, was titled: Conn. officials tell gun owners to relinquish or destroy banned assault weapons. In its original context the article reported that under a then-new law, Connecticut officials were urging owners of now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines to relinquish them to the police or make them permanently inoperable. It was readily apparent that a specific change in law affected some registered firearms, necessitating notification of individuals who owned registered guns affected by the law of the changes. It continued: The article concluded by noting that a state official denied rumors DESPP is confiscating weapons. It appeared that interest in the Connecticut gun confiscation letter rumors spiked in January 2016 due to concurrent concerns about potential gun laws in the legislative pipeline: However, the undated and misleading article led many readers to believe that all Connecticut gun owners began receiving letters confiscating all firearms, and that the report was current in January 2016. That was not the case, and the letters in question pertained solely to a small subset of items affected by gun legislation that went into effect in Connecticut on 1 January 2014. (en)
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