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Letter to the Editor: Stores should welcome concealed-carry law

8:20am Monday, June 14, 2004

June 13, 2004 Columbus Dispatch I respond to the June 5 letter from Lori A. O’Neill, president of the Greater Cleveland chapter of the Million Mom March ("Store owners who take on gun lobby deserve thanks"). O’Neill fails to mention that the only people who are banned from these businesses are the law-abiding, licensed, trained, screened, fingerprinted and honest concealed-carrying public. Those...

THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK: Posted Mansfield business ''brutally'' robbed

7:02am Sunday, June 13, 2004

Volunteers in Mansfield have told OFCC that all three Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco stores in Mansfield are owned by the same individual, and that "no-guns" signs barring CHL-holders went up just a short time ago. June 11, 2004 Mansfield News Journal ONTARIO -- City police are looking for a suspect they say brutally attacked a clerk at Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco shop a little after 8 p.m...

Sidney Daily News and Shelby Co. Sheriff maintain they committed no crimes

10:37am Saturday, June 12, 2004

June 12, 2004 Sidney Daily News Calls for state and local investigations have followed publication Tuesday in the Sidney Daily News of a list of concealed-carry permit holders as released by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary. The publication of addresses was listed as illegal by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and by Ohioans For Concealed Carry. The former...

Jogger attacked on bikeway; suspect nabbed

8:31am Saturday, June 12, 2004

THIS IS WHY CONCEALED CARRY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY IS PROTECTED. 96% OF RAPISTS DO NOT USE FIREARMS. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO TAKE AWAY THIS WOMAN'S ABILITY TO DEFEND HERSELF??? June 11, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Attacked on a bikeway under a bridge, her cries drowned out by construction noise, the jogger battled her knife-wielding attacker for 20 minutes. "She did fight him back," Dayton...

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Concealed weapon ban in parks not enforceable

7:44am Saturday, June 12, 2004

June 12, 2004 Toledo Blade Communities that ban people from carrying concealed weapons in parks despite a new state law have misfired, according to state officials. Such local policies conflict with the state's concealed-carry law and are not valid. Their enforcement could be challenged in the courts, said Kim Norris a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro. "If you are a licensed...

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A few Sheriffs' difficult licensing procedures deterring applicants

7:18am Saturday, June 12, 2004

June 10, 2004 StateNews.org Not as many Ohioans as expected are applying for permits to carry concealed weapons. That is sparking renewed debate about the law legislators passed last year to legalize hidden guns. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. Click here to hear the story via RealAudio streaming. Commentary: Before the law was implemented, Ohioans For Concealed Carry projected that...

Lorain Morning Journal editors come unglued

7:25am Friday, June 11, 2004

One day after it published a very fair and balanced story on the issue of businesses asking CHL-holders to stay away , the biased Lorain Morning Journal editors went on a tear, apparently to try and make up for their losses. On the June 10 editorial page, the paper accused Ohioans For Concealed Carry of "bullying" businesses, and published two letters to the editor from gun ban extremists. It is...

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OH Attorney General's office: ''Local ordinances [banning CCW] are NOT VALID''

10:04pm Thursday, June 10, 2004

Had Ohio citizens acted as these city officials are, they would have begun to carry concealed firearms when HB12, HB274, or even earlier bills were introduced, instead of waiting until they were passed into law. This behavior is disgraceful. June 10, 2004 Associated Press Gun Ban in Parks May Be Unconstitutional Several Ohio communities have banned people from carrying hidden weapons in their...