Ohio Newspaper Under Fire for Outing Gun Owners

(CNS News): An Ohio newspaper's decision to publish the non-public records of concealed carry permit holders drew a strong response, and one gun rights advocacy group published personal but public information about the newspaper's editor.

The Sandusky Register on June 24 published the names, ages and home counties of the almost 2,700 concealed carry permit holders in its circulation area. Ohio gun laws restrict public access to concealed carry records but allow the media to access them. Read more…

With more than 600,000 concealed permit holders in Pennsylvania, and 28,000 in Philadelphia alone, the list of concealed permit holders would take a lot of ink.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That paper is just helping the criminals:

http://disinter.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/ohio-newspaper-helps-criminals/