Apparel company fined by FTC for ripping off ‘Made in China’ tags for fake ‘Made in USA’ tag A Utah-based company well known for its jingoistic gear was fined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week after falsely claiming that all of the company’s products were made solely in the U.S. Lions Not Sheep is a beloved apparel company by those wanting to sport a pro-Second Amendment or pro-Trump T-shirt to wear during that next U.S. Capitol insurrection. Shirts are emblazoned with slogans such as: “Let''s Go, Brandon," "Give Violence a Chance," and "Shall Not Be Infringed." Owner of Lions Not Sheep, Sean Whalen, was hit with a $211,335 fine after it was found that they were removing the “Made in China” tags and adding fake “Made in the USA” labels to hats, shirts, and other accessories. RELATED STORY: Cracker Barrel offers a plant-based option. Conservatives lose their collective s**t Like so many GOPers before him, Whalen himself was the big giveaway when he posted a video in October 2020 proclaiming that he could "conceal the fact that his shirts are made in China by ripping out the origin tags and replacing them,” the FTC complaint reads .