Bill shielding identities of gun owners heads to Gov Quinn’s desk(IL)

SPRINGFIELD — Gun owners’ identities would remain shielded from public disclosure under legislation the Senate overwhelmingly approved Friday and that Gov. Quinn signaled he would support.

The 42-1 vote for a bill now headed to the governor’s desk represents a victory for gun-rights lobbyists who sought to keep the owners’ names private after Attorney General Lisa Madigan contended that lists of those with Firearm Owner Identification cards should be made public under the state’s open-records law.

Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), the bill’s chief Senate sponsor, argued the U.S. Constitution clearly supports gun owners’ rights to keep their names protected from public inspection and said that the public’s safety is at stake with the legislation.

“These names clearly have a constitutional right to be made private or kept private,” Dillard said. “From a law-enforcement standpoint, I don’t believe we should give burglars a map to systematically burglarize our neighborhoods and our farms.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/5493362-418/bill-shielding-identities-of-gun-owners-heads-to-quinns-desk.html

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Still wanna roll with that genetic fallacy?

You really don't know shit about Illinois or our politics, but you feel you had to say something that made you feel good, no matter how stupid it sounds when you say it out loud. But maybe none of them are "Real Dems", right?

If you reach any further you'll fall out of that swing kid.

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An utter disgrace that it took a Republican to protect private citizens' right to privacy from being trampled by the state executive. Where the hell were the state senate Democrats? Tailing along behind the Republican, apart from the two who voted present and the one who voted against. You're right, absolutely disgraceful.

fishing/hunting licenses, etc?

Personally, I think the safety concerns are overblown but I'd err on protecting individual privacy without a compelling need to the contrary. Any useful information that could come from this list could just as well be disclosed in aggregate (totals by area, for example)...

To be precise, under the Drivers' Privacy Protection Act of 1994, passed five years after actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered by a stalker who acquired her address from California DMV records.

Domestic partnership records are open to the public in Washington state (a situation I dislike). As far as I can discern, hunting and fishing licenses are not a matter of public record in Washington state.

The appeals to open record laws that are made to support making firearm licenses publicly available pervert the purpose of such laws, in my opinion. The object of these laws is to improve transparency of government, not to make it easier for private citizens to snoop on their fellow citizens.