A Long Island man was charged on Monday with threatening violence against L.G.B.T.Q. groups and leaders in dozens of hate-filled letters, including one warning of an attack that would make the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida “look like a cakewalk.” The man, Robert Fehring, 74, of Bayport, N.Y., sent the letters over the course of eight years starting in 2013, according to a federal criminal complaint in which he was charged with making threats via the U.S.
mail. A search of his home last month by F.B.I. agents turned up two loaded shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two stun guns, an American flag-patterned machete and a DVD titled “Underground Build Your Own Silencer System,” the complaint says.