[MWestMom]

Sorry, just coming in on Fox:

Officials in Putnam County say they will reject a newspaper’s (The Journal News - published names on map of gun owners in Weschester and Rockland County)request to release the names and addresses of residents with pistol permits.

County Clerk Dennis Sant said officials were meeting Wednesday to discuss legal options. He states that The Journal may have the legal right; but he thinks it’s wrong and doesn’t want to be responsible for someone in Putnam County being harmed by releasing the info.

[MWestMom]

Putnam County NY.

[brityank]

County Clerk Dennis Sant said ... he thinks it’s wrong and doesn’t want to be responsible for someone in Putnam County being harmed by releasing the info.

Sounds like Mr. Sant has a good understanding of the difference between legal and lawful:

Legal is the rule or regulation created by a valid legislature, and applied through the judiciary and administrative edicts of that society.

Lawful is the impact those rules and regulations have on that society.

The first is "the letter of the law" - the second is "the spirit of the law", and they should, in a just society, be equivalent.

Now consider "Roe v. Wade".
Legal and unlawful.

[Morris70]

Exercise Your legal right to publish Personal information of their family.