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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:53 AM Mar 2013

N.C. sheriffs wage fight over gun records

By Bruce Henderson and Cameron Steele
bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Saturday, Mar. 02, 2013

... Following a public showdown with the sheriff in Cherokee County, a local newspaper editor quit last week after his records request – which was denied – made him the target of death threats. The county has the state’s highest rate of concealed-handgun permits.

In Gaston County, Sheriff Alan Cloninger responded Friday to a newspaper’s request for gun-permit records by withholding names and addresses of permit holders.

As the nation revisits gun control following the massacre in Newtown, Conn., the sheriffs embody another facet of the debate: What are we entitled to know, through public records, about our neighbors’ weaponry?

Very little, according to bills before the N.C. House and Senate. The bills, backed by gun-rights groups and the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association, would make handgun and concealed-handgun permits off-limits to the public ...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/02/3889773/nc-sheriffs-wage-fight-over-gun.html

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N.C. sheriffs wage fight over gun records (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2013 OP

I guess the right Niceguy1 Mar 2013 #1

I see the lessons from New York were lost on some ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #4

North Carolina has had one of the best public records laws in the US struggle4progress Mar 2013 #7

i'm trying to train myself barbtries Mar 2013 #2

How would having a list of who has a CCW change that? ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #3

i don't know. barbtries Mar 2013 #5

It is the topic of the thread ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #6

Niceguy1

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1. I guess the right

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:20 AM

Mar 2013

Of privacy only applies to the select few in the mind of the newspaper editor. The gun control extremists are hurting any chance of meaningful reform.