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Cleveland business media assault on concealed carry continues

2:35pm Friday, March 05, 2004

Is there something in the water at the Cleveland business media's office buildings? Inside Business Magazine March 2004 Issue Trouble Shooting The Editors [email protected] When Ohio’s new concealed handgun law takes effect April 8, it doesn’t mean employees will be allowed to stash pieces in their cubicles. But it does mean employers should consider creating or updating handgun...

Frisch's Inc. CEO claims your personal safety not at risk due to his CCW Ban

1:05pm Thursday, March 04, 2004

UPDATE: Frisch's Inc. signs coming down ! Frisch's Inc. has begun to respond to customers who voice their displeasure with a new interstate policy discriminating against CHL-holders in their restaurants. In a letter from President & CEO Craig F. Maier, Frisch's Inc. takes the official position that the safety of their customers "is not being compromised by our prohibition of concealed weapons...

Xenia 'Defense' Walker collects over 190,000 votes in US Senate primary

9:01am Thursday, March 04, 2004

On a day when Ohio's Republican US Senators (Mike DeWine and George Voinovich) were voting to renew the Clinton Gun Ban and to put an end to gun shows (votes which killed an strongly supported legislative attempt to protect gun manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits), Ohio's conservative Republican voters were at the polls, firing another shot across the bow of the state's liberal Republican...

Op-Ed: Senate bill can end misleading debate on guns

8:30am Thursday, March 04, 2004

Mar. 02, 2004 Philadelphia Enquirer by John R. Lott Jr. Gun-control advocates should fear the votes today in the Senate, but not for the reason that most people think. Some claim that letting the ban on some semiautomatic weapons expire will cause a surge of police killings and a rise in gun crimes. But in fact, letting the law expire will show the uselessness of gun-control regulations. A year...

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Foxnews.com: Do Gun Control Activists Pad Gun Death Statistics?

3:39pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

And yet Senators Voinovich and DeWine voted with these dishonest, misleading gun ban extremists to renew the 1992 Clinton Gun Ban... Foxnews.com March 3, 2004 Last week’s release of police documents and evidence on the April, 1999, Columbine school shootings has sparked many questions — not only on the specifics of Columbine but also on the general issue of guns. The answers are unsatisfying on...

Proof yet again - gun control an utter failure in Ohio

2:59pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

So how again are Ohio's draconian gun control laws, which serve only to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens, supposed to be helping take guns off the streets? And what did the 1992 Clinton assault weapons ban (which received renewal 'yes' votes from Senators Voinovich and DeWine this week) do to stop this 80 round magazine from being sold in Cincinnati? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. February...

Bucyrus women need to hear the REAL story on self-defense

2:29pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Pity the poor woman in Bucyrus who attempts to ward off a violent attacker with a rolled-up newspaper or shoe instead of a .38 or .45. But that's the advice they got at this so-called self-defense seminar... March 1, 2004 Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum Classes on women's issues conducted Dee Marquart wasn't afraid to fight with a Bucyrus police officer, and neither was a police officer's wife, Joan...

OFCC PAC endorsees score key victories in 2004 party primaries

1:10am Wednesday, March 03, 2004

A little over one year ago, several OFCC members formed the OFCC Political Action Committee ( www.buckeyefirearms.org ). Time was critical - there were only 60 days before the November 2002 elections. We told potential supporters that the time was ripe to make a difference, and to reinforce the General Assembly and Supreme Court with candidates who supported your right to self-defense. In the...