[Billthedrill]

Mine are locked up or on me. Always. We had a nasty incident a couple of years ago where somebody on the run from the police broke into a house where the guns weren't locked up and got into a standoff situation with what he found there. That owner or any other one like him can kiss his firearms goodbye - they'll never leave the evidence room, or if they do they won't be shootable.

But I do think that your point is a good one, and is at least in part what the newspaper had in mind. One of the major gun prohibitionist arguments is that criminals steal guns from honest people, hence honest people shouldn't be allowed to have any. If they can help that argument out a little, so much the better, and anyone who thinks that they would never stoop that low doesn't know many anti-gun fanatics. Would they ever stoop to deliberately seeing that this list got into the hands of criminals, in the hopes that it would result in violence to a despised class? Yep, they just did exactly that.

[Jhoffa_]

Would they ever stoop to deliberately seeing that this list got into the hands of criminals, in the hopes that it would result in violence to a despised class? Yep, they just did exactly that.

I think it's quite possible.

And while the list might well scare away petty crooks and two bit types, hardcore criminals know that to steal guns you first have to go where the guns are.

Just like car thieves, if you want to steal high dollar cars, then you first have to deal with high dollar security systems. That's part of it and a "professional" criminal won't be deterred.

And now they have a list to aid them.

I hope there is a lawsuit that comes out of this. It's completely unnecessary and unjustified.