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Journal News To Identify More Gun Owners

Even though the uproar over its article revealing the location of gun permit holders hasn’t died down, the Journal News plans to identify more gun owners.

Further names and addresses will be added as they become available to a map originally published on Dec. 24 in the White Plains, New York-based Journal News, the newspaper said.

The original map listed thousands of pistol permit holders in suburban Westchester and Rockland counties just north of New York City.

Along with an article entitled “The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood,” the map was compiled in response to the Dec. 14 shooting deaths of 26 children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut, editors of the Gannett Corp.-owned newspaper said.

The next batch of names will be permit holders in suburban Putnam County, New York, where the county clerk told the newspaper it is still compiling information.

Some 44,000 people are licensed to own pistols in the three counties, the newspaper said. Owners of rifles and shotguns do not need permits, the newspaper said.

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One Comment

  1. luz

    January 4, 2013 at 1:26 pm

    What the Journal News reporting of Gun's owner addresses is a very dangerous acts against us and the country as a whole. what is their motive publishing the sensitive informations ? One can only imagine sending a signal to our enemies or trying to test our reactions. We as ordinary citizens don't even think of digging these informations,out of the ordinary . How are the Journal News will used this .It is important to
    reveal their motives .How much payment and who paid Journal News to commit this invasion of public informations ?