Indiana Herald Times CHL Database

[ammo two]

This is just plain craziness. Glad I don't live there.

http://www.ammoland.com/2009/12/04/indi ... offenders/

Bloomington, Indiana - -(AmmoLand.com)- On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement:

“This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street.”

The Herald-Times has begun receiving calls and emails, and their response is a defiant defense of their online gun permit database.

Anyone who visits the newspaper website will be able to search the number of permits on a given street or neighborhood. Although at this point the names and house numbers are not listed, the newspaper’s website treats law-abiding Indiana gun owners like sex offenders on a searchable database.

It is NRA’s firm belief that there is no public good served by the publishing or cataloguing private citizens’ gun ownership information, and that more harm is done by such an action. Law-abiding Hoosiers should not be subjected to the same treatment as sex offenders, and if the newspaper won’t listen to their constituents and customers, then NRA Members and Indiana gun owners should send a financial message by cancelling their subscriptions to the Bloomington Herald-Times.

Action: Please contact the Bloomington Herald-Times to respectfully voice your displeasure at the irresponsible action the newspaper has made.

Scott Schurz, Sunday Hoosier Times/Editor-in-Chief
(812) 331-4250
Sschurz@heraldt.com

E. Mayer Maloney Jr., Publisher
(812) 331-4251
Mmaloney@heraldt.com

Bob Zaltsberg, Editor
(812) 331-4364
rzaltsberg@heraldt.com

SIDE BAR:
By Ammoland

Since the Hoosier-Times has no problem disclosing your street and neighborhood info we have done some digging and are posting the home streets for the people responsible above.


E Pine Ln
Bloomington, IN 47401-4426


E Carowinds Ct
Bloomington, IN 47401-9716


S Ballantine Rd
Bloomington, IN 47401-6013

[KFP]

I'm surprised that the state legislature hasn't addressed this before, IN is very supportive of the RKBA from everything that I know. I like how the people in charge of the paper were called out, I think that will make the point, and they'll reconsider.

[ELB]

I'm surprised that the state legislature hasn't addressed this before, IN is very supportive of the RKBA from everything that I know. I like how the people in charge of the paper were called out, I think that will make the point, and they'll reconsider.

IU is my alma mater and B-ton my old stomping grounds. IU and Bloomington (city government) have long been liberal bastions, and the Horrible-Terrible will not reconsider a thing, they will just whine about being threatened by gun nuts. I am a bit surprised CHL records are open.

[Liberty]

I supposed that I would take advantage of such a database if I were looking for a place to live in Indiana, I would assume that neigborhoods where there weren't a l;ot of CHL holders might be dangerous and undesirable. While Proffesional burglers might look for neighborhoods where the residents might be unarmed.

[kalipsocs]

Lets not forget Bloomington is home to Indiana University...... enuff said.....