Buckeye Firearms Association has learned that several workplace signage companies, based in states with severe gun control laws, are attempting to profit from fraudulently misleading business-owners in Ohio into believing there is a legal requirement to post "no-guns" signs.

While each company words their "Compliance Warnings" a bit differently, the premise of each is similar to that of g.Neil, which uses an address in the gun control capitol of America - Washington D.C.

In an advertisement distributed to companies in Ohio recently, g.Neil wrote as follows:

"Final Notice

CHANGE IN OHIO LABOR LAW REQUIRES IMMEDIATE POSTER UPDATES

In 2003, the state of Ohio modified its labor law affecting this poster:

----->Weapons Law Poster

We have not heard from [your company] regarding the change in posting requirements. We’re concerned that you may be posting outdated information. To ensure compliance and avoid confusion caused by posting outdated information, please make certain you are displaying current posters."

And later in the advertisement:

The Palm Beach (FL) Post is reporting that three law enforcement agencies have launched a criminal investigation to find out who is sending letters threatening the privacy of the 4,500 AIDS patients and 2,000 people who are HIV-positive in Palm Beach County.

From the story:

One of the recipients of a letter postmarked March 8 told The Palm Beach Post Tuesday, "I'm very upset about this. I've been HIV-positive for a long time and, thankfully, I'm OK, but I'm looking for a job. Who is going to hire me if someone reveals my HIV status? This is a terrible thing."

He gave his name and phone number but asked that he not be identified in print because of the stigma associated with AIDS.

Many Ohio CHL-holders can identify with the emotions these people are feeling. Several Ohio newspapers have abused the Media Access Loophole by publishing thousands of CHL-holders' names, despite the fact that Ohio gun-ban extremist Toby Hoover is on record encouraging employers to consider whether or not a potential new-hire is a CHL-holder before hiring.

Again, from the story:

The otherwise innocuous letter with no return address that he and others received at their homes last week said, "Your name appeared on a list of HIV/AIDS patients for Palm Beach County."

A list of patients was inadvertently e-mailed last month to 800 Palm Beach County Health Department employees, but health officials do not believe the recent mailing used the same list because it did not include addresses.

This last statement is as naïve as those who say lists of Ohio's CHL-holders, with name, age and county of residence, could not be used to track down the address of the individuals.

A letter to the editor of the Newark Advocate in 2003 suggested that if the Ohio Newspaper Association truly believes knowing the identities of CHL-holders is a "public interest", it should call for the medical records of our children's teachers to be made public be as well.

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The Toledo Blade is reporting that a North Toledo man was arrested yesterday less than 12 hours after police said he forced a South Toledo woman into his car and sexually assaulted her in his home, then dropped her off on the south side.

From the story:

Lee Arthur Bean, 49, of 233 Palmer St. was charged with one count each of rape and kidnapping. He was booked into the Lucas County jail pending arraignment today in Toledo Municipal Court.

The 22-year-old woman was walking home at 2:30 a.m. from a 7-Eleven store in the Western Avenue-Hawley Street area. A man pulled up in his car, asked for directions, grabbed the woman by her hair, and pulled her into his car, Detective Paul Tetuan said.

The man drove her to his home and sexually assaulted her multiple times. About 5 a.m., he drove her to the Anthony Wayne Trail-City Park Avenue area and released her. She was treated at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, police said.

The newspaper goes on to report that after the victim showed investigators where the assault occurred, detectives obtained information about the homeowner, and the victim positively identified Bean as her assailant. Police later reportedly saw Bean driving the car used in the assault in the Maple-Streicher streets area and stopped it in the early afternoon yesterday.

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The City of Toledo is one of the most gun control-laden cities in the state. Was this victim prevented from taking measures to defens herself by Toledo's ban on small, concealable firearms, which is particularly discriminatory against lower-income families? Did she fear a city law which bans possession of firearms in public places?

Had she read the advice of Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre, given to store owners inquiring about how to protect themselves after a rash of violent robberies? Navarre "teaches small business owners not to have a gun," and says he "wants owners to comply with criminals because anytime you have more guns in a tense situation, the better the chance of people getting shot and it's just not worth it."

Toledo's gun control laws have failed to stop crime, and have instead created a target-rich environment for criminals in search of defenseless victims.

Contact Toledo City Council by email, or by calling 419-245-1050.

Mayor Jack Ford can be reached by email, or by calling 419-936-2020.

Chief Mike Navarre can be reached by email, or by calling 419-245-3200.

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Several Dayton Daily News readers have responded to a narrow-minded, uninformed rant from DDN columnist Martin Gottlieb, in which he attempted to make the case that because about 1% of eligible Ohioans have obtained licenses in the first nine months, that support for Right to Carry laws are a "narrow interest". In each case, the writers prove to have far more of an understanding than this journalist about how concealed carry reform actually works.

Number of applicants does not negate carry law

Re "99.5 percent ignore new gun law," March 4: I have a couple of questions/comments. Columnist Martin Gottlieb's anti-gun bias has blinded him and invalidated his opinion on several levels.

Since when does a right of the individual rightly fall victim to a majority opinion? The percentage of people applying for permits in no way negates the existence of the right.

The Zanesville Times Recorder is reporting that a shooting just across the street from the Perry County Sheriff’s Office late Tuesday night left two men dead and sent a critically wounded 30-year-old woman to a Columbus hospital.

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From the story:

New Lexington Chief of Police Jeffrey Newlon said the two men – 35-year-old Wesley B. Walker of New Lexington and 28-year-old Brett Young of Roseville – were found dead on the front porch of a home at 117 1/2 High Street just after 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Also found critically wounded was 30-year old Jody Ann Vause.

Vause was the resident of the home, which is directly across the street from the sheriff’s office in downtown New Lexington.

Can police ever be considered close enough to protect you?