Police Chief Calls Out Newspaper Over Request for Carry Permit Info; Gets Them to Drop Request
February 17 2013
A police chief in Maine took to Facebook to warn residents of his town that a newspaper had requested all permit data through an open records request.
The chief wanted to warn residents that the paper was asking for the material, but said he was legally bound to give them the information under the law.
Now, the paper has dropped its request after pushback from the chief, the public and the state’s Republican lawmakers.
The chief was worried that if the newspaper compiled a gun owner map, as was done in NY (pictured), it could endanger public safety.
Read the full article here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/15/a-great-day-polic...
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Oh my God. Why do the sanctimonious gun control people want to treat gun owners like they’re sex offenders, JUST BECAUSE they have exercised their 2nd Amendment rights and chosen to own a gun?! WTH is wrong with these people?!
Looks like police chiefs aren’t always useful idiots gun grabbing thug mayors…
That’s why AL passed a law where only people allowed to know who have gun permits are Law enforcment.
I hope Florida gets around to passing a similar law as AL…
That law wouldn’t have saved Trabon.
if you mean Trayvon, the only person that needed to be saved was Zinmerman. His handgun saved him from being beaten to death.
I am so sick of these idiots, they need to find something better to do, how about, spend time catching the crooks and leave the law abiding citizens alone.
Maybe someone ought to print the names, phone #s and addresses of the staff at the newspaper.
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