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2005 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry
Submitted by pete on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 18:00.By Jim Irvine
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has posted CHL statistics from the 4th quarter of last year on his website, and has issued the 2005 report on concealed handgun license issuance. This is the report which is required by Ohio law.
4th Quarter, 2005:
There were 4,387 regular concealed handgun licenses (CHL) issued and 22 temporary Emergency Licenses (TEL's) issued during the quarter. This compares with 7,063 and 23 licenses issued in the same quarter a year earlier. While this is a decline in from the same period last year, it is only a 2% decline from the third quarter of 2005, when there were 4,486 regular licenses issued. It appears that demand for CHL's has stabilized after the high demand during the nine months, and is in line with expectations based on demand in other states.
2005 Annual Review:
In 2005, there were 22,487 CHL's and 76 TEL's issued. There are now over 67,984 people licensed to carry a concealed firearm in Ohio, and residents from 16 other states may also carry in Ohio with out of state licenses.
If you have been to a groceries store, or a shopping mall, or gone for a walk, or been out in public lately, you have likely come in contact with several people who are licensed to carry. That is a disconcerting problem for criminals, and thus a comforting thought for law-abiding citizens.
HB347 & HB508: House hearing scheduled February 21
Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 10:55.Rep. Jim Aslanides' House Bill 347 will have another hearing next week. The bill has been added to the House Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for February 21 at 2:30 p.m. in Statehouse Hearing Room 121.
The purpose for Tuesday's hearing is so that the committee may accept a substitute bill that will reflect changes sponsors felt were necessary after consideration of testimony. Details of the changes will not be publicly available until the bill is accepted by the committee. Buckeye Firearms Association will be on hand, but will not testify.
Also at this hearing, Rep. Ron Hood will offer sponsor testimony on his recently-introduced HB508, which is designed to criminalize the confiscation of legally owned firearms by law enforcement during a state of emergency.
Filling hearing rooms as this legislation moves forward will make a serious statement of support. Your presence at this meeting is beneficial to the cause. Please consider making the trip to Columbus to be a visible show of support for HB347 and HB508, and their sponsors, Rep. Aslanides and Rep. Ron Hood, respectively.
For more information on HB347, see: Buckeye Firearms Association Endorses HB347, Sweeping Firearms Law Reform Bill
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For more information on HB508, see: The Katrina Effect: Hood introduces HB508.
Self-Defense Bill of Rights Part I
Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 00:10.By Ken Hanson
With all the hype surrounding introduction of “Stand Your Ground” legislation in numerous different states (also referred to as “Castle Doctrine,” “No Retreat” or “Self-Defense Bill of Rights,”) you probably are wondering what all the fuss is about. In fact, if you listen to the Brady Bunch version, you might believe other states are handing out a “License to Kill (or “License to Shoot First,” depending upon which spin master you are talking to.)
The first part of this series will examine the changes this bill makes with regard to self-defense in your own home. The second part, to be published later, will deal with changes in self-defense outside the home.
These bills, quite simply, are an attempt to regulate the aftermath of self-defense shootings. In many states, such as Ohio, there is a convoluted and burdensome process to establish a shooting as “self-defense.” Since it is easiest to examine what these changes are all about by example, let’s begin by looking at a self-defense shooting in Ohio.
Column by ‘NRA Hunter’ Writer Infuriates Gun Rights Activists
Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 00:05.By Dave Workman
GunWeek.com
Republished with permission
A pair of newspaper columns authored by veteran outdoor writer Pat Wray of Oregon that detailed why he thinks the National Rifle Association manipulates hunters set off a firestorm among gun rights activists who blistered Wray’s essay on KeepAndBearArms.com (KABA)
While proclaiming that, “I believe in the NRA,” Wray quickly acknowledged in his Dec. 4 article, “And there’s the rub.”
“Because I and millions of others like me believe in what the NRA does on behalf of our right to own guns, we are inclined to believe it when it tells us it’s standing up for our right to hunt. This is a dangerous idea, because where the interests of gun ownership and hunting diverge, I am seeing that the NRA always comes down on the side of guns.”
Wray acknowledges that NRA has “done good things for hunters” including supporting legislation to allow hunting on Sundays in several states, reduce the minimum hunting age in other states and legislation that mandates “no net loss” of hunting land.
But his negatives outweighed the positives. Wray noted, “The problem is not that the NRA leadership acts aggressively to protect the Second Amendment. It is their mission. The problem is that they mislead hunters into thinking that this helps hunting. All too often, hunters are foolish enough to believe them.”
And Wray wasn’t finished.
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