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Toledo convenience store owners anxiously await April 8

2:49pm Tuesday, March 23, 2004

In recent months, Toledoans have endured a rash of violent and even deadly convenience store robberies: WTOL Toledo 11: Store Attack highlights result of Taft's deadly game Toledo bureaucrats' ''solutions'' not working to prevent terrible crimes Toledo: Disarmed (smoke-free) citizens, well-armed criminals Toledo's gun control problem: only the criminals have guns Toledo gun control laws amount to...

17-year old accused of robbing woman at gunpoint; burning another alive

12:53pm Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Only law-abiding citizens are waiting for April 8 to carry concealed firearms. As this story and the Ohio Crime Clock shows (top-right column at www.buckeyefirearms.org ), criminals are not waiting, nor will they bother with the extensive licensing process once available. Teen charged in killing also accused of robbery March 23, 2004 Columbus Dispatch First she was robbed at gunpoint outside her...

Woman kills intruder

12:13pm Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Springfield News-Sun March 23, 2004 A Springfield woman shot and killed a 21-year-old man early Sunday, reportedly after the victim and a companion broke into her Chestnut Avenue home, police said. Matthew J. Marino, 21, whose address was not immediately available, was pronounced dead at Mercy Medical Center at 3:45 a.m., Springfield police Lt. Michael Hill said. Officers found Marino lying on...

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Counties prepare handgun warnings

11:47am Tuesday, March 23, 2004

UPDATE: The Associated Press has picked this story up - it will likely be published in news outlets across the state. Please forward reports of any potentially illegal bans to [email protected] . Officials debate details of keeping guns out of government buildings March 23, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Central Ohio counties are scrambling to prepare and post signs reminding conceal-carry permit...

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Police investigating shooting inside Toledo restaurant

7:15pm Monday, March 22, 2004

March 22, 2004 13abc.com - WTVG Toledo Robbery suspect shot several rounds into ceiling before getting away with woman's purse Quite a scare for people at a West Toledo restaurant Sunday night. Toledo police say just before 8 p.m., an armed gunman walked into Jalapeno's at 519 N. Reynolds, shot a couple rounds in the ceiling and ordered everyone to the floor. Police tell us the gunman got away...

Op-Ed: Shootings add new dimension to issue of privacy vs. gun rights

6:39pm Monday, March 22, 2004

Aside from the fact that the "fix" proposed by Toby Hoover and the Brady Bunch (reporting mental records from Ohio courts to the federal government) would not have prevented the Ohio sniper from purchasing his firearms, Leonard's piece gives the most objective look of this issue you'll read in the Ohio media. Whether or not he could have gotten a concealed carry license matters none. The Ohio...

Rotten Apples continue swipes at concealed carry (and own credibility)

4:33pm Monday, March 22, 2004

Journalists at Ohio's liberal newspapers often attempt to maintain the notion that they are impartial when it comes to reporting on firearms and self-protection rights. These ongoing editorial page rants betray the folly of their efforts to claim neutrality. Cleveland Plain Dealer: First things first "'My Second Amendment rights are just as important as your precious First Amendment.' I've lost...

Is this DDN writer on the list of people who have lost their marbles?

3:22pm Monday, March 22, 2004

Despite the thousands of federal and state gun control laws on the books, Charles McCoy still walked around carrying a concealed gun, shooting willy-nilly at anything that moved, immortalizing himself as the Ohio sniper suspect. Whether or not he could have gotten a concealed carry license matters none. The Ohio sniper didn't wait until April 8 to begin his sickening crime spree, and yet Mary...