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If you're not a member of OFCC, you're missing out!

7:22am Tuesday, May 10, 2005

This weekend, people across Ohio sat down with the latest issue of OFCC News, the quarterly newsletter of Ohioans For Concealed Carry. Most quickly realized they got even more than they normally have grown to expect from this members-only publication. In addition to an excellent article in the Law Enforcement Corner from Gahanna Police Chief Dennis Murphy, which was previewed on this website...

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35 Charged In Large Fight At Marion Park

7:19am Tuesday, May 10, 2005

This is the kind of thing we are told by bureaucrats in the City of Clyde and Toledo to fear if guns are allowed in parks. The trouble is, all the gun control laws in the world didn't stop this incident from occurring. Do they really believe a "no-guns" sign would have helped keep these criminals out of this public park? 05-09-2005 MarionOnline.com A large fight in the early morning of Sunday,...

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Victim Zone: Help sought to solve robbery at bar

7:16am Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The Toledo Blade is reporting that Toledo police are seeking information through the Crime Stopper program about a robbery at a bar early Friday. From the story: Three men - one armed with a gun - went into Living It Up, at 1601 West Central Ave., about 1:45 a.m., threatened bar patrons and employees, and took money from the cash register behind the bar, police said. They fled in a red car. They...

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''Mum's the word'' from anti-gun writer

12:12pm Monday, May 09, 2005

By Chad D. Baus When a notorious op-ed columnist from the Toledo Blade recently took her latest swipe at OhioCCW in a piece criticizing the job Bob Taft is doing as governor, by claiming that when Taft signed House Bill 12 he "gave the state something most of its citizens never sought or desired", I decided to ask her a few questions. And just as another member of the media did recently, Marilou...

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Does posting a sign make it a''gun free'' community?

11:10am Monday, May 09, 2005

When OhioCCW became law, Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman ran to a city park, set up a press conference in front of a jungle gym, and expressed how appalled he was that city officials were prohibited from banning firearms in their parks. Coleman, who is now running for the Democrat nomination for governor in Ohio, called the state's concealed carry law "a travesty for our city and for our state."...

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Man in Papa John's uniform sought in robbery

10:32am Monday, May 09, 2005

The following news item was submitted to OhioCCW.org: "Maybe this is why Papa Johns doesn't want CHL's in their stores... From Columbus Police Department report website: Case #: 050365549 Title: Robbery Subject: 450 - Robbery Location: 124 E Maynard Ave City: Columbus Zone 4, Precinct 4, District 43 Occurred: 5/2/2005 11:00:00 PM Reported By: Officer Ricks Badge 1546 Report Narrative: “THE HOME...

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Two reasons why it is foolish to carry only when ''expecting'' trouble...

9:41am Monday, May 09, 2005

Columbus' WBNS 10tv.com is reporting that a man who had stopped to fill up at a south Columbus gas station last week was robbed, beaten and kidnapped, and police say his attacker is still on the loose. From the story: It was around 1 a.m. Wednesday at a station on Frebis and Lockbourne Roads when James Kennenbrew was getting gas. The 56-year-old was approached by a man with a gun who told him to...

AP/DDN CHL records roundtable: Another Perspective

1:48pm Saturday, May 07, 2005

By Brian Horton OFCC TeamLeader & CCW-Talk Moderator I think that the DDN round table at Sinclair College went very well. Like Larry Moore I was pleasantly surprised that this really was a fair discussion. I thought Dr. Richard D. Stock, director of the University of Dayton’s Business Research Group, did a superb job of moderating by being fair and balanced with both sides and did a good job...