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Newspaper gun permit map: Putnam says new law shields county from releasing info

Published: January 17, 2013 7:40 PM
By CHRISTIAN WADE  christian.wade@cablevision.com

A patron holds a handgun at the Coyne

Photo credit: Elizabeth Daza | A patron holds a handgun at the Coyne Park Range in Yonkers. (Oct. 26, 2012)

Putnam County officials say they believe the state's tough new gun control laws shield them from fulfilling a Freedom of Information Law request from The Journal News to provide gun permit records for thousands of county residents.

Besides banning certain semiautomatic rifles and large magazines, the package of new laws requires owners to register within a year any once-legal guns banned under...

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