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NY Rag Makes Excuses

The (NY) Journal News is one of those newspapers suitable only for wiping one's butt or picking up dog poop. Last month they published on their website a list of NY pistol permit holders in a couple counties. I wrote about it here. I suppose, like a few other newspapers around the country, the editors exert their leftist, liberal anti-gun slant by trying to . . .what? Embarrass or harass permit holders? To "warn" their neighbors? Of course, all it really does is provide a shopping list for criminals who want to break into an unoccupied home to steal guns since that is the source for most illegal guns on the street.

Today they glibly report on how unhappy many permit holders are with the rag. And right beside the article, there are the links to the lists of permit holders.

Short of the editors contracting some fatal disease, it would seem that the only way to get the newsrag to change it's ways is for some privacy legislation to move through the NY Statehouse:

The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, the state's largest gun group, has now vowed to join other groups and lobby Albany lawmakers to remove the names of pistol owners from public scrutiny, making them available only to law enforcement personnel.

"We're going to try to get someone in both houses and someone from both parties to co-sponsor a privacy bill, which would essentially say that the names, address and telephone numbers of pistol permit holders are not public knowledge," said Tom King, president of the rifle and pistol association. "We're going to put a big push for it in the next week or so."

The association says it will get the measure enacted, even in a state like New York with a history of restrictive gun laws.