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Secrecy is trumping public interest in gun control coverage
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Our impoverished national conversation on guns appears to have a new casualty: public information.
The latest victim is the Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Me., whose request for the names of concealed gun permit holders – a public record in Maine – unleashed a firestorm. The paper withdrew its request. [Read more…]