founder of blackwater. i went directly from the pentagon to be the chief operating officer and general counsel of the prints group which is probably most famous for owning blackwater usa and presidential airways named after eric prince the founder and ceo. schmidts helped armitix clear the legal battles to get the gun sold in maryland. it wasn t easy. there were members of the maryland handgun roster board who simply didn t understand the technology and who, frankly, thought it was part of some big government conspiracy to take away the rights of american handgun owners. the armitax cleared some of the toughest legal hurdles in the country. there s still one big problem. no one anywhere will sell it to you. smartguns are dumb guns. the technology is far from reliable, and anybody that s going to put their life on the line with a piece of unreliable technology is making a big mistake. larry pratt is the ceo of gun
bars, churches an schools bars, churches an schoochools. i want to bring in the chairman of the stop gun violence and also the executive director of stop handgun violence as well as larry platte and handgun owners unite. this is in addition to what has been accomplished. john n is the second meeting since newtown and we know that larry s side is celebrating more victories than your side this these days, and what is the best way to fight a force like the nra that combines money and politics, and et cetera, at such a powerful level? well, first of all, the
who introduced the bill, he says in 30 years of politics he never had a day like this, he had 60 phone calls on his home phone message and that whatever happens, it s going to be after a real pitch battle. one of the arguments that the gun owners one of their group called handgun rights group, said that, you know, yes, there are permits for 170,000 handguns, but in connecticut you don t need a permit for rifles. so, what they say is, you know, there are probably more rifles than handguns. so publishing the list of handgun owners wouldn t tell wouldn t serve the purpose that s intended anyway because you re not going to know who else owns guns. greta: john, thank you very
he said in 30 years of politics, he had never had a day like this. he had 60 phone calls on his home phone message. and whatever happens, it is going to be after a real pitched battle. i mean, one of the arguments that the gun owners one of their a group called a handgun rights group. said that, you know, yes there are perms for 170,000 handguns, but in connecticut, you don t need a permit for rifles. so what what they say is, you know, there are probably more rifles than handguns. so publishing the list of handgun owners wouldn t tell wouldn t serve the purpose that is intended anyway because you are not going to know who else owns guns. jon, thank you very much. i gotta go. thank you.
officials refused to hand over information about handgun owners to the paper despite new york law saying that information is part of the public record. mary ellen o dell is the putnam county executive. mark green is a radio talk show host and former public advocate of new york city. miss o dell, if i were to walk into the office where those records are kept as a citizen of that community, i imagine i d get access to them. so why shouldn t that same right extend to the local newspaper? well, it s a that s not really i think a fair example of what we re trying to argue against today. you know, we re really looking at this as a privacy issue. we re looking to make sure that our constituents safety is primary, it s paramount to us in putnam county. most of our residents are law enforcement or first responders. we have a lot of veterans and, you know, we want to make sure that their families are safe and themselves, that they re not put at risk because of this. and i just want to say o