The Medford Mail Tribune, a newspaper which has repeatedly editorialized against self defense for public employees, has won a court case .pdf to get the names, addresses and occupations of all concealed handgun license holders in Jackson County.
Yeah, you can email the ironically-named editor Bob Hunter, but fascists like him probably get off on knowing how mad they make us.
I believe the most effective way to handle this is by making it their advertisers' problem, as they are the ones who finance and enable these subversives.
The first step would be to determine who their big regulars are--maybe come up with the top 5, and then send their CEOs a letter. It ought to be nice, that is, let them know you know they don't set editorial policy, but since the paper depends on them for their lifeblood they have been inadvertently drawn into this thanks to a newspaper management that places its subversive crusading above the interests of its customers. And who knows, maybe some of them will be gun owners.
I think if a business like a car dealership knew they could expect about a dozen protestors on the sidewalk outside their business on a busy weekend with signs highlighting how they are enabling undermining of rights, most would not want the controversy. If they knew their businesses were going to be regularly randomly selected for this, it would give them incentive to bring requisite pressure to bear.
This, of course, all depends on whether or not Oregon gun owners are interested in personally pursuing this and have the manpower to make good on it.
Being in Ohio, there is only so much I can do, but I will report on it via the War on Guns if anyone there wishes to pursue it. I'll also do what I can to recruit support from others.
Newspapers are fighting for survival right now, with circulation and revenues way down. Case in point, The New York Times will undergo a major bloodletting from among their reporting staff in the coming days. I just don't see the Medford local having the kind of against-the-trend prosperity to be able to sustain this, especially if their advertising guys are getting angry calls from big revenue sources demanding to know what the hell they've dragged them into.
[Via Jeffersonian]