Should you know if your neighbor owns a gun?
Should you know if your neighbor owns a gun? Editorial Board © Globe Staff/Adobe Last year, the San Francisco Chronicle submitted a government records request to nearby counties for information about individuals who had applied for and obtained a concealed-weapons permit. The journalists’ goal was not to expose those individuals but to understand whether there were patterns in how gun licenses were being given out that might endanger the public. Under state law, the counties were legally required to turn over the information. But one county sheriff took to Facebook to aler...