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Tennessee GOP seeks handgun permit database
NASHVILLE — The state Republican Party spokesman has filed a request to obtain Tennessee’s entire handgun permit database on the same day his party publicly scolded House Democrats for efforts to keep those records open to the public.
A Safety Department spokesman tells The Associated Press that Republican Party Communications Director Bill Hobbs filed the request for the database on Thursday.
The move came a day after House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, a Covington Democrat, used his powerful post to kill a bill that would have exempted handgun permits from the open records law and made it a felony to publish information about them.
Hobbs did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
But a GOP news release says House Democrats are assaulting gun owner rights and security by keeping the records open.
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