How did the paper get these addresses? (I’ve not been able to follow much news lately and searching for 3 letter words like ‘gun’ and/or ‘map’ doesn’t work on FR)
Being a registered gun owner in NY is public info.
See here for the back-story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/gawker-posts-list-of-new-york-gun-owners.html