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Florida: $5 million fine proposed for listing of gun owners

10:46am Saturday, March 27, 2004

Floridians have more than 17 years of successful experience with their concealed carry law. Looks as though they've figured out that it is law-abiding license-holders who deserve to be protected - something we must not allow the Ohio media to take 17 years to discover for themselves. March 25, 2004 Palm Beach Post TALLAHASSEE -- Squeezed between the cop on the beat and the powerful National Rifle...

Interest in gun permits soaring

7:40am Saturday, March 27, 2004

What is it about journalists that insist on using phrases like "pack heat" in writing their stories? Few if any persons who apply for licenses would ever be caught referring to this serious responsibility so flippantly. March 27. 2004 Cincinnati Post A lot of people in Hamilton County apparently want to pack heat. Even though a new law that allows Ohioans to carry concealed weapons doesn't go...

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Discount Drug Mart: There will be no corporate policy on signs

3:18pm Friday, March 26, 2004

On Tuesday, March 23, Ohioans For Concealed Carry began receiving reports that Discount Drug Mart, an Ohio-owned and operated discount chain in northeast Ohio, had begun posting discriminatory signs against CHL-holders . As will be our policy for all future sightings, we quickly brought this matter to our members' and supporters' attention, along with information on a shopping alternative, since...

Handgun trainers have their hands full

8:19am Friday, March 26, 2004

March 26, 2004 Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune Northwest Ohio gun dealers have been flooded with customers interested in training classes required to get a concealed-carry permit. Permit applications will be available at the Seneca County Sheriff's office beginning April 8. Applicants must complete the 12-hour class and pass a background check to get a permit. Seneca County Sheriff Thomas Steyer said...

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Armed and ready -- Sheriff prepares for concealed carry law

8:06am Friday, March 26, 2004

March 26, 2004 New Philadelphia Times-Reporter It’ll be close, but the Tuscarawas County Sheriff Department should have all the necessary tools to process permit applications for the concealed carry weapons law that goes into effect April 8. The applications were received and are available in the lobby at the sheriff’s office from 8 to 4 Monday through Friday, Sheriff Walt Wilson said Thursday...

Ohio Newspaper Association advising members to compile lists of CHL applicants

8:01am Friday, March 26, 2004

UPDATE: See below for an attorney's analysis of this latest move by the Ohio Newspaper Association. The Ohio Newspaper Association is continuing it's war against some of their most responsible readers. Apparently, this organization hasn't even a shred of the concern expressed by this Ft. Wayne, IN newspaper , which changed it's mind about intentions to publish lists after hearing from over 3000...

A Letter to Drugmart.....

7:39am Friday, March 26, 2004

UPDATE!! Discount Drug Mart: There will be no corporate policy on signs To: Discount Drugmart I shop at your store frequently in Chesterland and Mentor. If you continue to post signs turning away citizens who have had proper training and taken on the huge responsibility of carrying a concealed handgun, LEGALLY, then I will be among them!! Guess what, people who ILLEGALLY carry, will STILL wind up...

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Bad times for defenseless victims in Akron

12:12pm Thursday, March 25, 2004

After devising a knee-jerk executive order banning CHL-holders from all county property and from county vehicles, OFCC can now report that Summit County officials are now reexamining the order, in light of OFCC's notification (with the assistance of Tim Dimoff, SACS Consulting and Investigative Services of Akron), that the order is a violation of Section 9 of House Bill 12. After reading these...