>> reporter: steve dargan, in the legislature has introduced a legislative session that opens next wednesday, and he's brought in a bill to... make available under the freedom of information act, 170,000 gun -- handgun permit holders. >> why would he want to do that? obviously, that's very disturbing to a number of people who own guns in new york? so why does he want to do that? >> there has been a lot of reaction, of course, to the tragedy in newtown. and he says that there have been people who want to have a discussion, people who -- there are people who want to know where the guns are in their neighborhood. so he says, this is an open society. you can find out where -- what property a person owns, what kind of car he drives, if they're licensed to drive, things like that. he says, this is like that. the gun owners and, you know, the sportsman coalition, their advocates disagree and say, as you were talking about earlier, that this kind of information being out becomes a road map for criminals to know -- where there are guns to steal, or as some people put it, soft targets, suppose there i