First Amendment v. Second Amendment

A suburban New York newspaper recently set off a controversy by publishing the names of local residents holding piston permits.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/we-need-more-lawyers/

The permits are public records and the paper was certainly within its rights to publish the names.  But was the paper irresponsible, arguably endangering both permit holders and non-holders?

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