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Tennessee Republican Party Invades Privacy Of State’s Gun Permit Holders

November 3rd, 2009

Tennessee Republican Party Invades Privacy Of State’s Gun Permit Holders
by TNDP

More than 257,000 of the state’s handgun permit holders likely will soon get fundraising solicitations from hypocritical Republican politicians who claim they support privacy but whose actions tell another story, Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said.

“Once again, Republicans have shown Tennesseans why they cannot be trusted,” Forrester said. “I thought they opposed making these records public. Who knows what else they intend to do with that kind of sensitive information.

“Gun owners and anyone else who value their privacy and the security of their homes should be outraged at this kind of behavior.”

According to the Associated Press, the state Republican Party and one of its direct-mail vendors recently requested the records despite unanimous support from all Republican legislators of a bill last session that would have closed the records to the public for all uses, including campaign purposes.

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If this info is given out for something as silly as this...

...who knows what else it could be used for. :(

As long as there is storage of such information, people are always vulnerable.

Same with the intrusive Census information.

Well

put, Jiminy...
...and ello-hay...

Thanks ma'am. :)

..And owdy-hay!