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Ohio Attorney General Marc Dunn recently issued an opinion prohibiting journalists from obtaining records of gun owners.  Reporters are allowed to inspect records of those persons having permits to carry concealed weapons, but are not allowed to obtain, copy or make notes of these records. The reporter may, however, publish information about these records as long as the information obtained was from memory alone.

 Critics state this law may be unconstitutional as it provides access only to journalists and not to the general public. Unconstitutional it may be; absurd it surely is.