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Food for thought: Consider insurance as protection, too

3:38pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004

As this Columbus Dispatch story points out, although insurance isn’t required in the law (and should never be), it’s something to consider as a personal choice. It’ll cost Ohioans $45 to apply for a concealed-handgun permit, but those looking to take advantage of the new state law could find themselves shelling out hundreds more for extra insurance coverage. Standard policies don’t cover many of...

Letters to Toby...

2:43pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004

In an op-ed published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch and Toledo Blade, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence director Toby Hoover took issue with a Toledo professor who stated that "licensees are a good deal more law-abiding than the norm, and they are well-socialized personalities who can rationally plan and conduct their own lives and actions." Hoover's retort: "Some must be...

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Athens Co. Sheriff needs help with the definition of ''OR''

12:14pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004

April 18, 2004 Athens Messenger Concealed carry snag Mental-health check snafu halts permit process The concealed carry permit application process has slowed because mental health-care centers are not releasing records prior to April 8 — the date the concealed carry law went into effect. Athens County Sheriff Vern Castle said he has about 120 applications piled on a desk in the sheriff's office...

More businesses ban; more reverse course after feeling repercussions

6:52pm Monday, April 19, 2004

OFCC warned supporters about the next battleground in the concealed carry fight just hours after HB12 was signed into law. In Gun ban extremists' expected ''Business Blitz'' begins , we noted that Ohio's liberal media outlets were all-too willing to help "share the gospel" of business bans. When Ohio-based Frisch's Inc. ordered its Ohio stores to hang signs, concerned customers began contacting...

Op-Ed: Concealed-carry has begun, but the showdown is far from over

11:32am Monday, April 19, 2004

April 19, 2004 Columbus Dispatch by Lee Leonard As the ceremonial first pitches were thrown out to start the baseball season, so the first lawsuits were thrown into the courts to start the concealed-carry season in Ohio. Opponents of the new law cited several reasons for stopping sheriffs from issuing permits to carry concealed handguns and asked the Ohio Supreme Court to declare the law invalid...

Toledo Concealed Carry Advocate Fires Back

9:45am Monday, April 19, 2004

April 19, 2004 Fox Toledo Bruce Beatty has been shooting guns since he was a little kid. Not a big surprise he is also in favor of the new concealed carry law. Now he's taking shots at the city's new plan with some strong bullet points. "We're seeing a three to five percent drop in violent crime, all fields of violent crime per year in states with this law,"Beatty said. "If they'd spend ten...

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Concealed guns: Ohio, Kentucky deciding rules

7:40am Sunday, April 18, 2004

April 17, 2004 Cincinnati Post Ohioans with a valid concealed-carry permit will be able to bring their weapons into Kentucky, but Kentuckians should wait a while before taking their guns north of the Ohio River. In 1998, the Kentucky General Assembly passed a law that automatically accepted "valid carry concealed weapons licenses issued by other states." But Ohio -- whose concealed-carry law went...

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Caught: Gun Ban Lobby Attempts Rhetorical Revisionism

by Chad D. Baus

5:16pm Saturday, April 17, 2004

In an op-ed published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch and Toledo Blade, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence director Toby Hoover joins the chorus of opponents to concealed carry reform who are now backing away from dire predictions of what would happen in Ohio if concealed carry reform became law. Hoover now says she and the rest of the gun ban lobby "never painted lurid pictures...