Good

It appears that the leak of gun owner data in California was far broader than previously thought.

Anything that makes the lives of the ammosexual community more difficult is a good thing:

The California department of justice admitted it had exposed the personal information of as many as hundreds of thousands of gun owners in the state, in a controversial data breach that appears of a far broader scale than the agency first reported.

The data breach temporarily made public the names, birthdates, gender, race, driver’s license numbers, addresses and criminal histories of people who were granted or denied permits to carry concealed weapons between 2011 and 2021. The state’s Assault Weapon Registry, Handguns Certified for Sale, Dealer Record of Sale, Firearm Certificate Safety and Gun Violence Restraining Order dashboards were also affected, the department said.

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The news surfaced on Wednesday when the Fresno county sheriff’s office said that it had been informed of the data breach. It was initially reported that the exposure had affected every person with a concealed carry permit, rather than every person who was granted or denied a permit.

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“It is infuriating that people who have been complying with the law have been put at risk by this breach,” said the Butte county sheriff, Kory Honea, the president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, adding that sheriffs were concerned about potential risks to permit holders.

Gun fetishists own our polity, and our courts.

Even if this hack was not intended to strike fear into the hearts of gun owners, I am not broken up about the fact that this will make their life difficult.

My apologies to the decent folks who are collateral damage as a result.