Tennessee CCW permit holders....I know your name

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TennJed

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I wanted to pass this along and see what your opinions are. I saw this on another forum and wanted to share. This is a link to the Memphis TN newpaper which has a database of virtually every TN permit holder and their FULL name, their birth year, city, county, zip code, issue date, and exp date.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/data/gunpermits/?appSession=087311010571679

This is rather distrubing to me. Not sure what good having this info out there does and why it is even there.

Do other states do this?
 
I have the CA and never read it, maybe that is why this slipped past me. But this is crazy to me. No benifit to anyone having this out there
 
Newspapers in other states have done, or attempted, the same thing. It is nothing more than a blatant attempt to intimidate firearms owners.

Some states have enacted legislation prohibiting the release of this data, specifically in response to such efforts by "the media."
 
Some clown in Roanoke, Virginia, area did this a couple of years ago as an exercise in open records/freedom of the press kind of thing.

He didn't expect the response that he got.

His home address, phone number, and other personal particulars were published online (even though he worked very hard to keep them private), and the backlash from gunowners was dramatic.

I think that maybe even his social security number was published online.

I'm not so sure that he ever really saw the problem, even though he said that he did.

But, his exercise backfired on him badly, because the state has been progressively tightening up on access to those records.
 
Makes it easier for the thugs in Memphis to find guns they need.

I do remember they (either the CA or another TN newspaper) did the same thing, might have been Nashville, a few years ago and there was some backlash then as well.

Glad I live in MS, but still close enough to Memphis for it to bother me.
 
Couple of "journalists" in North Carolina did the same last month:
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Wasn't too terribly hard to track down their Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media and give them a taste of their own medicine.;)
 
New state laws, CC license policy...

My state's former Gov signed a new law while he was in office a few years ago that changed the concealed carry license records for private citizens.
Now, home addresses are no longer printed on the plastic licenses & the public can no longer access any state database information(names, phone numbers, mail addresses, etc) online.
The NRA was a big part of the changes and it made it better for residents/license holders to stay private if they choose.

Sworn & retired LE officers get the same treatment and have restricted access to their details if they get other state licenses(PI, armed security, security manager, etc).

Clyde
 
It is rather odd to me that it is legal for them to list our names like that but its not like there is enough info there for anyone to do anything with it. You can't really do that much with just a name and zip code and I could care less if people know I have a carry permit. I've never understood why people are so obsessed with keeping their info like this private. Its not like its really that private in the first place. My job involves looking at the personal information of every person that has bought a hunting or fishing license in about half the United States and there are a lot of people that have jobs like mine. You would be surprised how many people could find your SSN if they wanted to.
 
I do remember they (either the CA or another TN newspaper) did the same thing, might have been Nashville, a few years ago and there was some backlash then as well.
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It was the CA back then too. They've had this list for several years now and keep it updated. I'm in their database along with many other TN HCP holders.
 
You can't really do that much with just a name and zip code and I could care less if people know I have a carry permit.
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You would be surprised to know what can be done with just that and the information that has been made available is a bit more than just that.

In the WRAL site mentioned in the article I linked narrows it down by block - would you trust your neighbors not to answer seemingly innocent questions asked by strangers? I wouldn't
 
jasmith85 said:
It is rather odd to me that it is legal for them to list our names like that but its not like there is enough info there for anyone to do anything with it. You can't really do that much with just a name and zip code and I could care less if people know I have a carry permit. I've never understood why people are so obsessed with keeping their info like this private.
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You ARE joking, right? With a name and a zip code, unless you have a VERY common name anybody can have your street address within about 30 seconds, courtesy of web phone directories such as switchboard.com and 411.com. And, as noted a couple of posts above yours, for crooks a list of concealed carry permit holders is a "targeted" (no pun intended) list of places that are most likely to have firearms in the house. So, if you're a bad guy looking to score some guns, would you choose to just drive down a street and pick houses at random, or would you start with a list of houses that are known to have guns?
 
I'm in Illinois, probably the worst state in the country to be a gun owner. Several news agencies tried this same tactic of publishing gun owners info, the AG even went as far as to order the state police to release the names. Luckily the state police said no, and the legislature then passed a law exempting this info from FOIA requests, and requiring a warrent to be issued to release the info to LEOs.

Imagine that we actually got that one right.

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Some Little Rock rag did that in Arkansas a year or so ago. The feller didn't like so much when his home address and phone # was put out!:D
 
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