Newspaper Boss Now Claims Massive Database Of Gun Owners Idea Was Misfire

Excerpted from FOX NEWS: A national newspaper chain never intended to create a multi-state database of gun owners with permits allowing them to carry concealed weapons according to its top executive, who told FoxNews.com a “poorly crafted” internal memo erroneously indicated such an idea was being planned. The memo — sent by a top content editor to various editors at Civitas Media, which owns about 100 newspapers in 11 states, with 1.6 million in total circulation — laid out a plan for an enterprise project that would use public information requests to establish the database. But president/CEO Michael Bush told FoxNews.com in an email that the memo should not have been sent and that the notion of such a project had been “rejected” upon consideration. The Jan. 19 memo, which FoxNews.com reported on Friday, raised the prospect of a much larger version of a controversial project carried out by in 2012 by a New York state newspaper that included an online map identifying gun owners in two counties by name and address. “Civitas Media never had any plans or intentions of publishing in print or online lists of holders of ‘conceal and carry’ permits,” Bush wrote to FoxNews.com.



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