there's a new Republican-backed Virginia law making it illegal to disclose the names of Virginia's proud concealed-carry permit owners;
Turns out, though, the only group currently seeking that list of Virginia gun owners seems to be the Republican Party itself.
Before it becomes the law of the land, Republican Party of Virginia Executive Director Anthony Ready did what he does every year. He FOIAed the name, mailing address, birth date, country of citizenship, telephone number and date of registration of every permit holder in Virginia. The only piece of information they asked to have redacted was the permit holder's Social Security Number.This request was dated June 6, 2013 less than a month before the release of this information in this fashion will be illegal in Virginia.
The Virginia Republicans say they're only asking about that information so that they can contact those gun owners and keep them informed on issues like who might be building big scary lists of gun owners, which is freaking awesome. Apparently, though, some gun owners are all peeved and crabby about it, and there's an effort afoot to deny the GOP's request.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...28Daily+Kos%29