Arkansas: Columnist's antic foreshadows threat of firearm bill
Max Brantley recently showed gun owners a glimpse of their future if HR 45, popularly known as the Blair Holt Bill, becomes law. Brantley, a columnist for a weekly tabloid in Little Rock, recently published a link to the Arkansas State Police database containing the names and addresses of the 58,000 or so Arkansans who are permitted to carry concealed weapons.
http://www.nraila.org/news/read/inthenews.aspx?id=12237
Posted: 3/17/2009 9:17:18 AM
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Snopes...........
Blair Holt Bill
Claim: A bill before Congress would prohibit ownership of handguns by those who have not obtained firearm licenses.
TRUE
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp
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