Grassroots volunteers and OFCC supporters across Ohio continue to be successful at educating business owners and getting "no-guns" signs removed from store windows.

"We are finding that business owners are very open to considering the facts, and reconsidering the logic of believing a sign can keep you safe," said Joe Eaton, OFCC's Business Education Coordinator. "By informing business owners about the facts concerning Concealed Handgun Licensees (CHLs), volunteers across the state are finding success in seeing businesses in their local communities remove their discriminatory signs."
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One of the latest to remove its signs is a McDonald's restaurant in Uhrichsville, a city that experienced an above average rate of posted "no-guns" signs in the early days of Ohio's concealed carry law. The reason for those postings was revealed in a letter from the Marketing Director over all McDonald's of East Central Ohio, sent in response to one of the customers who voiced concerns.

"...Many of the local law enforcement office[s] or sheriff's departments brought decals to many local businesses," wrote Debra M. Aubihl.

"However," she continued in her September 9 letter, "you pose a valid point with the location welcoming deer hunters. We will bring you concern to the owner and managers and it will be open for discussion."

The marketing director for these McDonald's has now reported that the signs have in fact been removed from all nine of their restaurants.

To date, at least 12 major chains and approximately 200 other business locations have removed their signs and opened their doors to Ohio Concealed Handgun License-holders.

September 16, 2004
Pravda

After the recent terrorist act in Beslan, Russians began purchasing legal means of self-defense.

Some even address direct letters to different law-enforcement agencies across country with a plea to authorize sales of hunting rifles and self-defense firearms.

State Duma plans to adopt certain amendments by the end of this month, aimed at restricting the overall turnover of firearms and explosives in the country. The amendment however will apply only to Russian special services. At the same time, many delegates express their affirmative views to make the firearms market more liberal. According to them, if the state is unable to protect its citizens, let them have the right protect themselves, writes Izvestia.

"It appears that the Russian peoples have nothing else to do but to act as mere sacrificial lambs. Rebels do not take militia hostage; they prefer to torture defenseless people. And the government is incapable of protecting us," states Yuri Dotsenko in his letter from Sochi. "I am not saying that each of us needs a personal bodyguard. There is another issue at stake here. There is simply the lack of a governmental system aimed at protecting its people. In my opinion, there is only one way out of this mess: the state has to make guns legal. Let people protect themselves and their kids. Those rebels would not have seized the school had they known that every parent had had a gun."

Russian society is on the verge of the real firearms fever. People are racing to hospitals, psychiatric facilities in order to obtain needed certificates which will enable them to purchase firearms. They all are one thing only: to acquire a legal permission to store firearms at home in order to protect their families.

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