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Boy am I glad it worked out well :-)
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 21:42:06 -0500
from RISKS: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 20:19:58 -0500 From: simsong () next cambridge ma us (Simson L. Garfinkel) Subject: Massachusetts state police confuse car owners with gun carriers (NOT) I forwarded the RISKS note about people receiving gun permit renewal notes accidentally in Massachusetts to David Lewis, who heads the Registry of Motor Vehicle's information technology group. (His official title is Deputy Registrar.) You may remember the message:
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 13:26:43 EST Subject: Mass. state police confuse car owners with gun carriers
My wife received a letter yesterday from the Massachusetts state police, informing her that it was time to renew her "License to Carry Firearms". It included a renewal form that she was to take to her local licensing authority, the police station in our case.
This is what David Lewis had to say about it: "It wasn't actually a tape of vehicle owners. They got stickers confused with people who were supposed to get food stamps. So the people [who were supposed to get] the food stamp books got the gun permits, and the people who were supposed to get gun permits got food stamps. But it wasn't the Registry this time." Just setting the record straight.
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