The Mafia has used public gun registration records to look up police officers and burglar sites for years.
Gun registration works: on guns that are registered. Since machine guns were registered, only one crime has been committed with a registered machine gun. That was committed by a police officer.
Gun registration has no effect on guns that are not registered, and many crimes in the US have been committed with unregistered fully automatic weapons. With gun registration there are powerful incentives for a black market in unregistered firearms.
The Journal Post just did the work that the Mafia normally did for them.
The problem is gun registration in NY.
The proper way to write a gun control law is to add a 20 year, non-plea able term to any felony committed with a gun.
This was done for sawed off shotguns which were popular with criminals, effective, and made ballistic testing difficult.
Result: Letter carriers had to call the local police when they opened their deposit boxes on their routes. The criminals dumped their sawed off shotguns there. No criminal wanted one.
Note the way that works: Long added sentence for a real crime, with the sentence as an item of evidence, sentence not subject to plea bargain.
Honest people are thus not subject to the law. Criminals only, and no special rights for the well represented. Watch as the usual suspects avoid the right answer at all costs.
They knew. They are liable. Gun owners are not public figures.
Last I heard, they wanted to “double down” and publish some more from another county, but for the bravery of a county clerk/official who was saying ‘no’ & not releasing the info.
This just in from the JournalNews: And all CCW holders have to wear a yellow star. /s
Westchester county used to be a nice place.
The past 20 years have brought waves of wealthy NYC refugees and their liberal thinking. It is now just a political satelite of NYC.
Rockland county is the same thing. Can’t even own paintball or airsoft items in Rockland, no BB Guns, nothing, subject to Arrest on the spot.
Forget about pistol permits. Unless you are connected it ain’t happening. 1 million+ people live in Westchester, how many permits have been issued? What’s the ratio where you live?
Putnam county, that refused to knuckle under, is a VERY different place. (Roger Ailes bought a place there recently) Dutchess county and Orange county have been issuing pistol permits without issue these past few years. with LOTS of youth training & pistol/rifle clubs all over.
The Leftist Urinal Spews strikes again.
oOmen and minorities hit hardest.