WHIOTV.com in Dayton is reporting today that a man with an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) accidentally shot himself while entering his vehicle.

The news report states the incident happened when the man was delivering a meal to his elderly friend on Hoover Avenue in Dayton around noon on Tuesday.

Police told WHIO-TV the man was carrying a two-shot Derringer in his coat pocket. Officers said when the man sat down in his van, the weapon fell, discharging one round and striking the man in the elbow.

The man was not seriously injured. He was taken to a local hospital, treated and released.

A Few Observations:

Ohioans who chose to bear arms for self-defense are being discriminated against by a national company that does business here.

Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, NationsRent has years of experience with doing business in concealed carry states. It is likely that CHL-holders have shopped at NationsRent locations while armed on literally millions of occasions.

Ohioans For Concealed Carry members and supporters are among those frequent (and armed) customers while living in other states, such as Indiana, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

Although our initial search is by no means exhaustive, we have been unable to locate a single negative incident involving a CHL-holder inside a NationsRent store nationwide. In fact, in a conversation with OFCC, a representative of the company admitted he knew of no problems regarding CCW in any of their stores, anywhere in the country, or any problems with CCW in general, anywhere.

Despite all of these facts, NationsRent has placed "no-guns" signs in its Ohio stores.

The company representative stated that NationRent "hopes the signs keep all the guns out." When told that posting does nothing to make his stores safer, but instead may make them more attractive to criminals the representative claimed, "that is an opinion."

How else can Ohio residents interpret this move but that NationsRent doesn't trust residents of Ohio to practice the same responsibility that has been exercised in their stores by residents of so many others? When we pointed out this hypocracy, the representative we spoke with announced that they are going to look into banning in all other NationsRent stores nationwide. Of course, he could give no answer why they never posted anywhere else, but now feel a need to.

As has been demonstrated in many "no-guns" businesses in Ohio - criminals, by definition, do not care about prohibitions, and will certainly ignore, or perhaps even be drawn to, stores that advertise that their customers' have been rendered defenseless by company policy. Does the company honestly think that criminals will obey the signs (which they could have put up years ago)?

NationsRent operates 226 locations in over 30 states, nearly all of which have a long history of successful concealed carry laws.

If you have a comment about NationsRent, the company's website encourages feedback, and says "we'll make it happen for you. No sweat."

NationsRent (Home Office)
450 E. Las Olas Boulevard, 14th Floor
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Telephone: (954) 760-6550
Fax: (954) 760-6565

CustomerService@nationsrent.com

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October 11, 2004
Jackson Co. (OH) Times-Journal

A robbery attempt, committed on Riegel Ridge Road in Oak Hill, was aborted, Tuesday, after the homeowner fired a gun on one of the intruders.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer checked and cleared the house and then went to the garage. He observed that the garage door had been kicked several times and the window, of the door, had been knocked out and was on the garage floor.

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The officer entered the garage and found the resident, Roy Lundy Sr., 61, holding a large revolver in his hand which he immediately put away in a tool box. The officer asked Lundy if he was okay and he responded yes.

According to the report, Lundy informed the officer that he had been sitting in his wheelchair in the garage when he observed a white Lincoln pull into his driveway, turn around and back up to the house. He saw two white males go toward the back of the house.

At that time, someone began kicking the garage door and Lundy backed his wheelchair into a back corner of the garage. Lundy said that the window was knocked out and a black male entered the garage through the hole in the door where the window once was.

Lundy fired one shot at the intruder and he jumped back through the hole exiting the garage.

Click here to read the entire story in the Times-Journal.