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Blade reporter takes CHL class: impressed with thoroughness

11:12am Monday, April 26, 2004

Another reporter shops a concealed-carry class, another excellent story on the professionalism and thoroughness of Ohio CCW training. April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Pulling trigger: a chilling moment of truth "Classes miss no targets in training applicant to qualify to obtain a concealed weapons permit" Sobering. Reality check. Practice! I wrote those words in capital letters among many pages of...

Widow had good reason to apply for [carry license]

8:27am Sunday, April 25, 2004

For the most intelligent of citizens, it does not take being made a victim yourself to know it can happen to you. Mr. & Mrs. Krause took precautions, and it saved their lives in 1998. Read this article, and consider buying yourself some "self-defense insurance." April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Mary Lou Krause, a 73-year-old widow who lives in Swanton Township, is among recent graduates of...

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''Retail Rapist'' sought in greater Cincinnati

8:05am Sunday, April 25, 2004

Just what are businesses that choose to deny their employees and customers their right to self-defense trying to protect them from? Note that this violent criminal ignored the 150-year-old concealed carry ban while commiting his horrible acts. Of course, his defenseless victims were dutifully obeying the law. April 23, 2004 Cincinnati Post Search is on for rapist Piercing blue eyes. Disarming...

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OFCC obtains Div. of Liquor Control letter to Ohio Class D licensees

2:16pm Saturday, April 24, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry & the OFCC PAC have confirmed our suspicions that a large number of the retailers currently listed on the "Do Not Patronize While Armed list" are likely operating under the misunderstanding that they are required to post signs barring CHL-holders from their stores. The following Ohio Division of Liquor Control letter has been sent to all Class D liquor permit-...

Signs come down at former hypocritical Business Banners

12:47pm Saturday, April 24, 2004

Three more stores from the list of "business ban hypocrites" have removed their discriminatory signs. They originally earned their place on this list by attempting to ban CHL-holders from their Ohio stores, while having a long history of NOT doing the same to CHL-holders in other states. Original Mattress Factory in Fairfield has removed signs ordering customers who were CHL-holders to shop...

Northwest Ohio Legislators To Host Concealed Carry Forums

3:29pm Friday, April 23, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE State Representative Steve Buehrer (R-Delta) announced today that he and State Senator Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon) will host a series of educational forums on Ohio’s new concealed carry law. The educational forums will be held April 29th in Defiance, May 5th in Findlay and May 6th in Ottawa. All meetings will start at 7 p.m. “The goal of these forums is to educate the public...

Letter to the Editor: Criminals have always had concealed carry

4:09pm Thursday, April 22, 2004

April 21, 2004 Newark Advocate All of this talk about concealed carry and businesses posting "no firearms" signs is foolishness if you use common sense. Unless these places of business have had metal detectors at their entry, there have been illegal concealed carries in their establishments unknown for years. Criminals have always had concealed carry. Carl W. Griffith Heath

Section 9 Op-Ed: Concealed guns could be trouble in city parks

4:05pm Thursday, April 22, 2004

The following editorial is being published in several Gannett News Service papers : April 21, 2004 Among the uncertainties surrounding the state's new concealed carry law is whether cities and other political subdivisions can prohibit weapons in public parks. City officials across the state say they would like to prohibit firearms in public areas for as far as the law will allow. "It's just...