In Ohio, gun grabbers have found perhaps no greater a sympathetic ear than the Toledo City Council.

State law prohibits carrying a concealed firearm for self-defense, and the Court says this is Constitutional, since Ohioans can carry a firearm openly.

But in Toledo, Municipal Code 549.18, Weapon possession in public places prohibited is cited by Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre as the basis for arresting Ohioans who attempt to exercise their Supreme Court-recognized "fundamental individual right" to openly carry a firearm for self-defense in his city.

Click here to read a letter from the Toledo Police Department on the subject of open carry in Toledo.

Toledo bureaucrats are fond of bans. In addition to the open carry ban (which is, since the Court's recent ruling, begging for a constitutional challenge), Toledo also bans the sale of inexpensive firearms in that city. The consequence is, of course, that lower-income persons have an even harder time protecting themselves. The open carry ban denies them protection on the streets, and the inexpensive firearms ban disarms many, even in their homes.

Despite Toledo's various gun control laws,
crime in Toledo is rampant, and growing. Consider these headlines from just this week.

Nov. 29:
Police seek clues to solve slaying during A-1 Auto Parts robbery