This story appeared a few days ago, with an interesting update today.

The original story from Monday, in the St. Petersburg Times:

Sunday evening, Linda Lunn, 41, smoked a cigarette outside her home in the Paradise Lakes nudist resort and shared a good laugh with her stepson’s girlfriend.

Inside, Lunn’s husband, Richard, 61, had piled his new guns on the kitchen island and was proudly showing off the firearms to his son, Dan, 34.

“We thought it was cute,” said Margaret Wilcox, 40, Dan Lunn’s girlfriend.

Linda Lunn went inside for a cup of coffee. There was a loud bang.

Pasco deputies said that as Richard Lunn discussed a Glock .357-caliber with his son, he pulled the trigger and accidentally shot his wife in the chest.

“She wasn’t even 2 feet away,” Wilcox said. “It happened so fast.”

Lunn rushed to his wife, who lay in a pool of blood next to the refrigerator.

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Wilcox said Richard Lunn was an avid gun collector. Records indicate he had a concealed weapons permit that expired in July.

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Apart from following Mrs. Lunn’s condition – which has yet to be updated since this article – that might have been the end of the story.

But then this telling “clarification” appeared in today’s paper:

On Tuesday, the Pasco Times [a division of the St. Petersburg Times] reported that records showed that Richard Lunn, who accidentally shot his wife, Linda, over the weekend, had a concealed weapons permit that expired in July. Lunn said he has renewed his permit and it expires in 2015. The Times was unable to verify this because information on concealed weapon permits is no longer open to the public. Linda Lunn is in serious condition at Bayfront Medical Center, according to hospital staff.

Two points here: First, we see another example in a long line of mishaps (not to mention outright crimes, including murder and assault) committed by concealed carry permit-holders who the gun lobby assures us are “law-abiding citizens.”

Second, Florida government has decided to keep the records of their permit-holders secret, so the public isn’t allowed to know who among them has a permit.

Floridians have to wait until a permit-holder accidentally or criminally shoots someone first – and maybe not even then.