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MahopacJack Champion Author New York Posts:8,010 Points:1,582,700 Joined:Feb 2008	Message Posted: Jan 23, 2013 10:33:11 AM Ignore MahopacJack Report Abuse From the link, "The defiant New York county clerk who has refused to hand over names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper that has stirred controversy by publishing the public information is standing firm, saying it's a matter of safety. "This certainly puts my public in danger," Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant said in reiterating his stance against the Journal News, a daily paper that serves the New York City suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties."Putnam County Clerk refuses to endanger citizens!

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From the link, "The defiant New York county clerk who has refused to hand over names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper that has stirred controversy by publishing the public information is standing firm, saying it's a matter of safety.

"This certainly puts my public in danger," Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant said in reiterating his stance against the Journal News, a daily paper that serves the New York City suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties."Putnam County Clerk refuses to endanger citizens!

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Bell30012 Champion Author Atlanta Posts:3,918 Points:616,645 Joined:Aug 2004	Message Posted: Jan 25, 2013 7:01:48 AM Ignore Bell30012 Report Abuse The current laws of the state of New York say that his information is available by request. The state law of New York says the clerk must provide it. The first amendment states that no laws can be passed abridging the freedom of the press. As a gun owner, I'd never want my name published. As a newspaper man, I never want the press silenced. As a law abiding citizen, I want our laws complied with. If we don't like a law, we need to work to change it not refuse to comply with them.
MahopacJack Champion Author New York Posts:8,010 Points:1,582,700 Joined:Feb 2008	Message Posted: Jan 24, 2013 6:42:23 PM Ignore MahopacJack Report Abuse Bell30012, >>Unfortunately, this clerk is violating the law. The way the current law of New York is written, he is in clear violation. There is no shot in court of it holding up. In the end it will cost this county and maybe this individual a lot of money. The newspaper will get the information in the end.<< *** It may not be as cut and dry as you think. Aren't gun owners, and everyone else for that matter, entitled to their own privacy? To be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects as stated in the Fourth Amendment? Isn't forcing a local government to provide an organization with the names, addresses, maps on how to get to their homes and even pictures of their property INFRINGING UPON THEIR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS? Isn't the rights of neighboring gun owners also being violated as they now become easy marks for criminals?
Bell30012 Champion Author Atlanta Posts:3,918 Points:616,645 Joined:Aug 2004	Message Posted: Jan 24, 2013 12:40:33 PM Ignore Bell30012 Report Abuse Unfortunately, this clerk is violating the law. The way the current law of New York is written, he is in clear violation. There is no shot in court of it holding up. In the end it will cost this county and maybe this individual a lot of money. The newspaper will get the information in the end.
101Speedster Champion Author Ventura Posts:30,413 Points:2,715,695 Joined:May 2005	Message Posted: Jan 23, 2013 11:46:46 AM Ignore 101Speedster Report Abuse Any newspaper or group that posts names of gun owners that results in theft or harm to homeowners should be jailed, fined, and sued for damages.
mudtoe Champion Author Cincinnati Posts:9,488 Points:1,287,410 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Jan 23, 2013 11:44:24 AM Ignore mudtoe Report Abuse Excellent!
jdhelm Champion Author Iowa Posts:11,837 Points:1,197,915 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: Jan 23, 2013 11:43:15 AM Ignore jdhelm Report Abuse - - - finally, some common sense, too bad the liberal newspaper never had any . . .
mswiggy Champion Author South Carolina Posts:2,297 Points:393,815 Joined:Apr 2008	Message Posted: Jan 23, 2013 11:18:17 AM Ignore mswiggy Report Abuse GOOD