When they like it, it’s called bipartisanship. When they do not, it’s called a herd mentality.

First, via Michael, comes Jack McElroy: The database is a public record, at least for now. The newspaper – our sister in the E.W. Scripps Co. – put the information on its Web site’s “Data Center” months ago. No one noticed, though, until a permit-holder was charged with a shooting death. Wrong. No one noticed […]

A hearty thank you to Christian Do These Labels Look Suspicious? Trejbal. Seems the bill to limit access to handgun carry permit data in VA is heading to the governor for a signature. Passed unanimously in both houses.

If a bill making it’s way through the capitol passes, it would be a crime to publish handgun carry permit records. In their attempt to crap on the second amendment, the Commercial Appeal has, ironically, crapped on the first amendment. Again, thank you. Without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Pat yourselves on the back. […]

Despite their claims that they’re not anti-gun, they keep reminding us that they are anti-gun. This time, they want feedback. Ok, here’s some: gun owners don’t like their names published in the paper.

Not content trampling privacy, they are now crapping their pants over some TN gun bills: Editorial: Logic lacking in gun bills A fast track to a bad policy: Making it easier to bring firearms to places where families gather defies common sense. I looked for the logic and have yet to see it. Seems mostly […]

Rich writes a letter regarding the CA’s lame defense for publishing the names of handgun carry permit holders: Second, your defense failed to note that you removed addresses and birth dates only after you were deluged in complaints. And then there’s this: News events like the Feb. 6 shooting at Trinity Commons shopping center led […]

With bonus hypocrisy. You’ll recall that a crappy paper in Memphis decided to publish a database of those who have licenses to carry handguns. And lumped us in there with criminals. Turns out, they don’t like turnabout. When someone went to the article and linked to a list of names and addresses of editorial staff, […]

Pipsqueak: The Commie Appeal keeps adding stuff to the gun permit search engine page.

A letter sent regarding their decision to publish a database of carry permit holders.

I mentioned the bit yesterday but Mike sets the Commercial Appeal straight on gun laws.

Wendi C. Thomas writes for the Commercial Squeal. She also has a blog. On that blog, she tells us why she hates and doesn’t read comments posted at the site of the paper she writes for: Really, I do. I rarely, rarely read them and NEVER on my stories. Why? Because 95 percent of the […]

Aunt B.: I’ve heard the Commercial Appeal has a policy of not linking to bloggers. It’s so cute when newspapers think they can just asshole the internet into working how they want it to work. It’d be cuter if it didn’t affect friends of mine, but it’s still cute, like they still think they control […]

A reader emails regarding Kelsey’s blowout: This was a one issue race for State Senate in Germantown, Cordova and Bartlett last night. The Republican (for the open seat) was Brian Kelsey, a conservative Republican who voted for all of our desired gun bills last session, and the Democrat was a soccer-mom who made the guns […]

A database of where journalists live. Tit for tat, I guess. You know, some enterprising person with time and access to lexis legal resources could start looking up staff members at newspapers who publish this stuff (like the Herald Times Online or the Commercial Appeal) and see if those staffers current on taxes; have any […]

The Knoxville News Sentinel has an editorial that advocates TN not pass a law restricting access to handgun carry permit data. Well, if newspapers such the KNS’ sister paper The Commercial Appeal weren’t publishing lists, this would have never come up. If the press showed better judgment, this would not be an issue.

The Commercial Appeal has started pooing its collective pants over the new bill to allow cities to decide if they want to prohibit guns in parks. This, even though nearly 80% of their readers support the measure (wonder how that happened?). I’d address their 1) disingenuousness, 2) hysteria, and 3) outright lies but Linoge already […]

A poll at the Commercial Appeal.

Even our local paper is falling for the lies: The permitting process is clearly flawed. A study last month by the Commercial Appeal in Memphis found as many as 70 Shelby County residents were issued permits despite criminal histories, including arrests for robbery, assault and domestic violence. Now we learn that Jiverly Wong, the Binghampton […]

To learn that the bastion of journalistic integrity, The Commercial Appeal, is laying off staff.

In their never ending quest to increase page views err justify publishing a list of handgun carry permit holders, the Commercial Appeal breaks out the PSH. Dozens of permit holders (out of 220K) have violent histories. Linoge has more. To me, this indicates an issue with the TN Department of Safety’s competence and not an […]

The dangers of such a database illustrated by the News Sentinel’s Jack McElroy: “Oldhickory,” one of the commenters on our gun-permit story today, ran the names of News Sentinel employees against the database posted on the Memphis Commercial Appeal Web site. When a name matched, he identified the employee as a “likely permit holder.” Going […]

The Jackson Sun on The Commercial Appeal publishing a database of handgun carry permit holders: This bill is a direct response to the blatantly irresponsible use of handgun permit information by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. That newspaper put a searchable database online which initially contained the name of every handgun permit holder in Tennessee, including […]

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Commercial Appeal and the handgun carry permit holder database in one convenient location.

Jack McElroy on the Commercial Appeal publishing carry permit holders’ names, notes some perceived good that has come from the information: In recent years, reporters have used the database to reveal that permits were being issued to ineligible people with restraining orders and criminal backgrounds. Yes, we here at SayUncle noted that an error rate […]

The Commercial Appeal published a list of handgun carry permit holders. Now, the TN Legislature is stepping in: Tennessee lawmakers are ready again to try to muzzle state records that list who has a permit to carry a concealed handgun, and this time they are considering making it a crime to publish information about gun […]

The Commercial Appeal has updated its database of handgun carry permit holders.

Commercial Appeal: Tennessee legislators have filed a rash of new bills to allow guns in state and local parks, restaurants serving alcohol and even schools and also limiting public access to lists of gun-carry permit holders. I wonder why they’d consider that last one? Oh, yeah. And: As of Thursday afternoon, 18 bills were filed […]

So reports the privacy rights invading Commercial Appeal here: Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton, in a push to increase public safety, has called for a statewide gun-offender registry and tougher penalties for people who carry handguns without permits. In his annual State of the County address to the Rotary Club on Tuesday, Wharton unveiled […]

The latest paper to publish a database of handgun carry permit holders: The Memphis Commercial Appeal. Perhaps someone should publish a list of their reporters names and home addresses. Then someone could compare them to, say, unpaid tax records, crime databases, bankruptcy, DUI registries, or some such? Another reason we need the privacy bill that […]