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Website Posts List of New York City Gun Owners

HeadlineJan 10, 2013

The website Gawker is sparking controversy for posting the names of every licensed gun owner in New York City. The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request from the New York City Police Department. It is 446 pages long and appears to include the names of Fox News chief Roger Ailes and Fox host Sean Hannity, as well as radio host Don Imus and business magnate Donald Trump. The Gawker story also notes that the names of 1.2 million New Yorkers licensed to own guns — and many of their addresses — have been available online for over two years. Gawker’s move comes after the New York paper The Journal News faced a massive backlash for publishing the names and addresses of gun owners in New York’s Westchester and Rockland counties and posting maps of their locations online. The newspaper had to hire armed guards to monitor its offices after a torrent of threatening emails and phone calls.

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