Did Ll Bean Announce No Registered Gun Owners

Did outdoor company L.L. Edible bean CEO Hammond C. Heis ban employees from beingness registered firearms owners considering Michelle Obama is their largest stockholder? And are there legitimate calls for a boycott over this? No, that'south not true, a fake meme is existence spread by a satirical left fly Facebook folio in guild to trick conservatives into boycotting a company where ane of the directors supported Donald Trump'south entrada for president.

The fake boycott was being fuelled via a meme published on June 24, 2018 by Facebook page "America's Concluding Line Of Defense" (archived here) with a caption that read:

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The caption on the image read:

Fifty.L. Bean's largest stockholder is Michelle Obama. Last week the CEO, Hammond C. Heis, announced that no registered gun owner will be employed by their company.

All of that is nonsense. The real CEO of L.Fifty. Edible bean is Stephen Smith according to Bloomberg:

Fifty.50.Bean Inc.: Individual Company Data - Bloomberg

L.L.Edible bean Inc. manufactures and markets clothes and outdoor equipment. The company offers shirts, sweaters, pants, outerwear, sleepwear and robes, jeans, sweatshirts, shorts, long underwear and base layers, swimwear, and blazers for men; and outerwear, shirts, sweaters, sleepwear and robes, pants, fleece tops and sweatshirts, jeans, skirts and dresses, underwear and long underwear, blazers, shorts, and swimwear for women.

And the heiress of the founder of Fifty.Fifty. Bean was personally thanked by President Trump for her back up last twelvemonth after the visitor got into a controversy because 1 of information technology'south directors had supported Trump's entrada with a large donation:

Support for Donald Trump sparks calls for boycott on Fifty.L.Bean

It isn't simply automakers and drug companies getting pulled into the political ring. The retail industry on Th was once over again dragged into the crosshairs, later President-elect Donald Trump sent out a tweet thanking L.L. Bean heiress Linda Bean for her support. Thanks to Linda Bean of L.L.Bean for your great support and courage.

That does not exactly sound like the kind of visitor Michelle Obama would be a shareholder of. No surprise, because the Facebook page that spread the meme describes itself as:

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Nothing on this page is real. It is a drove of the satirical whimsies of liberal trolls masquerading as conservatives. You have been warned.

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Utilise the forcefulness and the truth shall reveal itself. Just not here. E'er.

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Good One-time Fashioned Liberal Troll Provided Fantasy presented as comedy to the left and a social experiment to the correct. Please don't hurt the Trumpanzees. they'll be gone in a few years back to the shadows from whence they came and we'll be dorsum to trolling Tea Turds.

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