Who’s packing in NY
A website that tells you who has pistol permits. Apparently, NY law says that who has pistol permits shall be public information.
Via Tom King.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
Uncle Pays the Bills
 |
|
Find Local
|
Categories
- ATF (769)
- Death Match (10)
- Eminent Domain (225)
- In the bag (9)
- Notes to Junior (546)
- Poker (74)
- Recipes (142)
- Shotgun Noob (11)
- The Airing of Grievances (19)
- uncategorized (47,725)
June 15th, 2010 at 10:01 am
In a “may issue” locale, that is, in a “likely to reject you for no real reason” locale, documentation regarding who does and who does not get permits is useful information for the public to have.
Might keep the rejections a bit more reasonable, or might highlight egregious racism, sexism, favorititsm, etc., in the issuance of permits.
On the other hand, a list of people with guns to steal is always useful to criminals. A list of pro-self-defense civil rights advocates can be misused to discriminate in hiring and politically. So there are problems with the
June 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
It’d be fun to cross-index this with opensecrets.org and see how political power and the access to the means to defend yourself are intertwined in the Empire State.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I see they’ve disabled the ‘search’ function at Unc’s link, although the database file(s) are still available for download. Unc, you broke the Internet again!
.
Also, it should be recalled that just because someone’s name is in the NYS database, doesn’t mean they have a permit to concealed carry! Many permits are issued which only allow purchase (permit required per each pistol/revolver) and possession in the home and transport ONLY directly to and from a NY State approved ranges.
.
I’m glad I moved to TX.
.
June 15th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Lets go celebrity hunting. I found Donald Trump.
TRUMP DONALD J 725 5 AVE
June 15th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
It could be handy because you can find out how many anti-gun politicians actually possess a weapon.