As Democrats won control of the Virginia legislature in November, an image started to spread online showing a child in hunting hear holding a dead deer.

One such post published on Facebook Nov. 8 says: “Yesterday Virginia announced the end of youth hunting! The governor said that no kid under 18 will be allowed to shoot a gun. This is the end of a 400 year tradition of kids helping put food on their family’s (sic) table. It’s a sad day in the Commonwealth!”

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We reached out to the governor’s office about the claim but didn’t hear back. However, the state’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries wrote in a…