New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:17AM from the verified-no-gun-map-would-be-more-interesting dept.

New submitter Isaac-1 writes "First it was the sex offenders being mapped using public records, now it seems to be gun owners — I wonder who will be next? It seems a newspaper in New York has published an interactive map with the names and addresses of people with [handguns]." It's happened before: In 2007, Virginia's Roanoke Times raised the ire of many gun owners by publishing a database of Virginia's gun permit holders that it assembled based on public records inquiries. (The paper later withdrew that database.) Similarly, WRAL-TV in North Carolina published a database earlier this year with searchable map of (partially redacted) information about permit holders in that state, and Philadelphia made the news for a similar disclosure — complete with interactive map and addresses — of hundreds of gun permit applicants and holders.

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Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership by CodeBuster · 2012-12-25 05:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't think you need to provide details of medical treatments to the government, or request government permission in advance to be allowed the treatment.
Give it a few more years; ObamaCare is just getting started and they've saved the best for last.