WDTN.com (Dayton 2News) is reporting that police have recovered several of the weapons stolen from a SWAT team officers' car last week.

2News reports a phone tip led police to the stolen weapons and to three suspects that are under arrest. But the suspects are not believed to be the ones who broke into the SWAT team members vehicle. According to a quote attributed to Dayton Police Department Lt. Bob Chabali, the guns had changed hands at least two times on the black market prior to their recapture.

All the gun control laws in the world could not have stopped these criminals from breaking into this vehicle, stealing law enforcement property, and selling and reselling these guns. Only with the help of a private citizen were police able to recover these firearms before they disappeared into the crime world forever.

Despite these lessons learned, there is little doubt the next round of gun control laws to be introduced in our state will be focused on making gun ownership more difficult for the law-abiding, rather than on keeping criminals like these behind bars.

On November 9, 2004, WCPO.com reported that Cincinnati Police are looking for two bank robbers who struck a Fifth Third Bank in Corryville Tuesday morning. All Ohio Fifth Third Banks are listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database.

According to the news story, just before 11 a.m., a man put a gun to the unarmed security guard's head while the other suspect robbed two tellers.

What is it about the danger in these "no-guns" signs and advertising their defenselessness these businesses can't understand??

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Those in the media who recklessly abuse their privilege to obtain information on individuals with CHLs callously dismiss suggestions that publishing the names will lead to targeted gun theft.

The Akron Beacon Journal has called it a "flimsy presumption", and Gannett News Columbus Bureau Chief Jim Siegel said warnings about the dangers of publishing the list of CHL-holders "elevate these criminals to a level of sophistication they very likely do not possess..."

Right...

On November 9, 2004. the Fremont News Messenger reported that four Detroit men researched a rural Ohio gun store on the Internet, and came to town a week early to case the store they intended to rob.

Although their August robbery failed, intelligence gathered from gun store surveillance cameras were used to identify the criminals, which were arrested in Michigan on charges of breaking and entering another gun store in that state.

A gun stolen from that robbery was quickly sold on the black market and used in a murder.

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