The NRA-ILA is reporting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has caught the Brady Campaign/ Million Mom bunch telling yet another tall tale.

The NRA-ILA report states as follows:

In an obvious setup for an ammunition-banning "killer amendment" to defeat pro-gun legislation, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and New York Senator Chuck Schumer (D) have once again proven that they've never seen a gun they won`t try to ban.

The target of this week's sparsely attended Washington news conference was FN Herstal`s "Five-SeveN," an expensive and still rare polymer-framed handgun. At the same time they attack .50 caliber rifles for their large bullets and long-range capability, the anti-gun groups falsely claim the Five-SeveN--specially designed for short-range use with small, lightweight bullets--poses a threat to police.

The truth is, this pistol and its ammunition were approved for importation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), which stated that the ammunition is "not armor piercing" under Federal law.

BATFE also noted that in tests by FN--one of Europe`s most respected firearm manufacturers--bullets from the Five-SeveN wouldn't penetrate two kinds of soft body armor (you can see BATFE's statement at: http://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearmstech/fabriquen.htm).

Law enforcement agencies and manufacturers follow 57 pages of detailed instructions when testing armor. Brady "ballisticians" simply shot a vest draped over a bale of hay and handed out a video.

Many media outlets, including some in Ohio, dutifully repeated the Brady story, without noting the BATFE's corrections.

Click here for the complete story on the Brady bunch's latest attack on a perfectly legal handgun.

Ohioans For Concealed Carry volunteers have recently completed a comprehensive survey of Ohio's 88 county sheriffs, seeking to determine where the law is being implemented well (i.e. where citizens will find it easy to apply for a CHL), and where there is work to be done.

Out of 88 sheriffs, 48 accept applications at least 5 days per week (with 21 applying appointment schedules that can reduce the number of applicants each week to just 40 or so).

Another 5 sheriffs accept applications 4 days per week (3 of those require appointments).

14 sheriffs restrict applications to just 3 days per week (with 5 of those restricting the ability to apply for a CHL even more by requiring appointments).

9 Ohio sheriffs are only accepting CHL-applications 2 days per week (with 3 of those offering restrictive appointment schedules).

12 Ohio sheriffs are only performing their duty under the law 1 day per week (and 5 of those still have the nerve to require appointments, limiting to just a handful the number of citizens who can apply each week).

Suffice it to say that considering the challenges applicants have faced in the first 180 days (and which many still do face), the fact that 38,476 licenses have been issued to Ohio residents sends a strong message that the choice for armed self-defense is, in fact, in serious demand in our state.

It is important to remember that most Ohio Sheriffs are serving their constituents and their duty under the law quite well. They backed passage of this law and they are working hard to issue licenses.

On the other hand, there are too many sheriffs who leave much to be desired, and seem to need to be reminded that they are elected officials. Two defiant Sheriffs have lost lawsuits filed against them, and third is still being investigated. Cuyahoga Co.'s Sheriff McFaul settled a lawsuit, paid all attorney's fees and court costs, and began issuing licenses after a short delay last spring. This fall, Ohio Supreme Court told Franklin Co.'s Sheriff Karnes he was wrong to demand from applicants additional 'proof' that a temporary emergency license was needed. In a third case, a special prosecutor is (still) investigating Shelby Co. Sheriff O'Leary for releasing protected information about CHL-holders to the media.

This survey reinforces the importance of the "adjoining county" provision, which allows applicants who live in counties where restrictive, even obstructionist, sheriffs are in power, to go to another county to apply for a CHL.

OFCC has and will continue to attempt to work with the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association (BSSA) to encourage those sheriffs who are employing restrictive application schedules to make improvements to their services. And we applaud the many sheriffs in Ohio who continue to defend and fight for the rights of their constituents to bear arms for self-defense.

Click to read the survey - Sheriffs: How is YOUR elected official doing?

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting a 28-year-old man was seriously wounded Friday night during a robbery attempt in the parking lot of the Collinwood Food Mart in the 16200 block of St. Clair Avenue.

Cleveland police told the Plain Dealer the man was shot in the chest about 7 p.m. by a 17- or 18-year-old male. The robber ran off before police arrived.

The newspaper said officials at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland would not comment on the condition of the shooting victim.

What the Plain Dealer did NOT report is that Collinwood Village Food Mart is a intentionally rendering itself a victim zone (VZ) by affirmatively disarming its customers and posting "no-guns" signs.

Obviously the criminal didn't get the message. Then again, perhaps he did.

Contact information for this discriminatory and unsafe business (and others) is available on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database.

IS CRIME ON THE INCREASE IN POSTED BUSINESSES? Is advertising that customers and employees inside your business are defenseless really such a "safe" idea? Click to view a list which documents crimes committed in businesses posted with "no-guns" signs.

On January 17, the Dayton Daily News reported that a woman accidentally shot herself while riding a Greater Dayton RTA bus.

According to the story, dispatchers received the call of the shooting at Main Street and Siebenthaler Avenue at 8:51 p.m. January 16. The report indicated that the woman was "bleeding badly." The DDN stated that medics responded and the woman was treated for her injury, but that additional information was not available.

What is interesting about this report is what it does NOT say - the questions the DDN did NOT ask (or at least did not provide the answers to):

Did this woman have a Concealed Handgun License?

and

Why didn't the Greater Dayton Regional Transportation Authority's (GDRTA) illegal ban on licensed concealed carry deter this woman from carrying on the bus?

When the CHL-records "media access loophole" was created, Bob Taft's office joined the Ohio Newspaper Association in suggesting it was necessary to ensure that licenses were not being given out to the "wrong people", thus promoting the false idea that allowing law-abiding citizens the right to bear arms for self-defense was a disaster waiting to happen.

Even IF we accept the premise that Ohio sheriffs cannot be trusted enough to issue licenses only to qualified individuals (and we do not), this DDN story proves the media access loophole is not being used as its proponents claimed it would be.

Otherwise, the DDN would have checked on this woman's CHL status, and reported it to the public. If Ohioans deserve to know whether or not the state's CHL law is being abused, they certainly also deserve to know that "no-guns" signs cannot protect them from unlicensed individuals and criminals bringing guns into "no-guns" zones.

Larry Moore, OFCC's Senate District 10 Coordinator, decided to do the DDN's job for them, and the answers to these two questions may provide deep insight as to why the anti-CCW Dayton Daily News did not report them.

Click on the "Read More..." link below for more.

WDTN-TV is reporting that a parking lot predator seems to be stalking people who live in various apartments complexes in the Miami Valley. The seventh known attack came yesterday. According to the news account, the attacker seems to come out of nowhere, running up to frighten his victims and leaves with "stealth skill".

Click on the "Read More..." link below for more.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting in a place where guns were banned (a UAW official told the Toledo Blade today even the security guards are disarmed at the Toledo Jeep plant!), and on the heels of a growing number of victimizations that prove gun control laws are impotent at stopping criminals, gun ban extremist Toby Hoover felt the need to make a statement.

Hoover, who fronts what often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, sent an ambulance-chasing blast email just 45 minutes after the Jeep plant rampage, citing a list of recent Ohio shootings.

Hoover ends her email by stating that "we must change the culture of fear". Ohioans For Concealed Carry couldn't agree more.

Click on the "Read More..." link below for more.

In the wake of the kidnapping (and eventual murder) of a Walmart employee as she walked to her car, one Texas television station is pondering how things might have been different if the victim were capable of defending herself.

Strangely, however, even in Texas, the media just can't bring itself to mention the one self-defense option that might really have made a difference.

From the story:

Surveillance video from the Wal-Mart parking lot clearly shows an attacker running at Holden from behind.

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That video has local residents wondering if Holden could have done anything to protect herself.

A local Karate instructor says every woman, and even men, should take a self-defense class.

John Liles is a sixth-degree black belt and teaches at Lubbock Karate. As the father of two daughters, he says he feels better knowing both his daughters have learned self-defense techniques.

"The techniques are so easy to apply anybody can do it," he says. "It doesn`t matter how big you are, how small you are, your strength plays no factor in it."

Liles also advises that you should walk with your car keys in your hand. That way, you can also use them as a weapon.

What the media has also reported, but failed to investigate, is why the attacker visibly targeted at least two other victims in the Wal-Mart, but then backed off:

Police: Alleged Attacker Made 'Several Other Attempts' Before Picking Out Victim

What made Johnny Lee Williams decide these two people made unattractive targets? Did they, perhaps, appear as though they might have been armed?

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Walmart kidnapping/ murder suspect apprehended, thanks to armed citizen

NewsNet5.com is reporting that a man was coming home from work at about 2 a.m. when two men approached with guns drawn.

Police told NewsNet5 the men told the alleged victim, Jeremy Schumacher, that they wanted to go shopping. The men checked Jeremy's wallet, found his girlfriend's credit cards and forced her to come outside.

The media outlet states the men allegedly took the woman, later identified as Pamela Logan, to the bank to make a withdrawal and then drove her to a Wal-Mart where they sent her inside with a shopping list.

Although the gunmen waited outside the store with Schumacher, his girlfriend told a Wal-Mart manager that she needed police.

As officers approached, NewsNet5 reports the gunmen forced Schumacher to drive away from the store and led police on a 100 mph chase along Morse Road. The chase ended in a parking lot on Belcher Drive, where the street came to an end.

"When we got here, the guy threw the gun in my lap," Schumacher was quoted as saying. The cops were all with shotguns. (The gunman) says, 'Tell the cops it's your gun.'"

The men, later identified as Stanley Carr Jr. and Hamp Allen, were taken into custody, and charged with aggravated robbery.

Commentary:
While we cannot know where Schumacher works, or what his employer's policies on firearms are, there is a lesson here for any business that affirmatively renders its employees and customers defenseless by banning firearms on company property, even in personal vehicles. Such bans not only create victim disarmament zones at the workplace, but they also create a defacto ban on self-defense while traveling to and from the place of business.

When the Ohio House of Representatives passed Sub. House Bill 12 in 2003, a specific exemption prohibited companies from telling licensed customers and employees they could not store a firearm in their own automobile on the company parking lot. This provision was stripped from the final bill by the state Senate, rendering people defenseless (even on the drive to and from work).

Even now, in Oklahoma, a group of corporations is fighting a newly-passed state law which would return the right of self-defense to customers and employees (at least in part) by exempting parking lots from places where businesses can ban firearms. How tragic.

WHIOtv.com is reporting that police officials apprehended a Cathy Sams, 39, minutes after she had robbed the "no-guns" Fifth-Third Bank on Union Road in Englewood. The FBI announced this week it is pressing federal charges against the suspected bank robber on Tuesday.

Investigators told WHIO a witness helped authorities find Sams. Peter Gilbert said he saw the car and watched the dye pack go off. He said there was red smoke pouring out of the car. Gilbert said he started to follow the suspect.

Police reported to WHIO that Sams confessed to the robbery. The FBI said Sams is also accused of robbing The Brookville Builders and Savings in December.

Prosecutors say Sams is also suspected of firing shots outside the (no-guns) Brookville High School as a diversion for the Brookville bank robbery.

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When companies prohibit employees who have concealed handgun licenses from bringing their protection on company property, they explain by way of making a lot of promises.

They say without the prohibition, there is a risk of misuse, poor judgment or accident by license-holders.

They say the prohibition will make a safer work environment.

They say the prohibition makes the company "weapons-free".

The Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio was none of those things Wednesday night, January 26.

According to a news report from the Toledo Blade, a Jeep worker armed with a double-barreled 20-gauge shotgun shot two supervisors and a team leader at 8:45 p.m. last night in an office area at DaimlerChrysler’s Jeep assembly plant in Toledo, fatally wounding one and injuring two others.

The gunman is identified by police as 54 year-old Toledoan Myles Meyers, who has an extensive criminal record dating back to the 70's. An employee at the plant, Meyers reportedly had met Tuesday with union and company officials to discuss a problem at work, but a company official said today he was not disciplined.

The paper states the attacker was pronounced dead in the office area of the body shop, having apparently shot himself in the head. One supervisor was taken to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, where the paper reports he died at 9:20 p.m. The names of the two wounded men, also hospitalized at St. Vincent, were not released last night.