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OHIOANS FOR CONCEALED CARRY APPLAUDS CONCEALED CARRY REFORM PASSAGE

11:34pm Wednesday, December 10, 2003

COLUMBUS - Dec. 11, Ohioans for Concealed Carry (OFCC) is pleased that House Bill 12 is finally headed to Governor Taft. We support the passage of a concealed carry law as a vital deterrent to violent crime. With recent news about Ohio's skyrocketing crime rate this legislation is long overdue. Ohio's defenseless citizens deserve a law that will allow them the same right to survive a criminal...

AP: Joint committee approves concealed carry bill

10:51pm Wednesday, December 10, 2003

11:52 p.m. UPDATE: The HB12 Conference Committee report passed the Ohio Senate 25-8, and passed the Ohio House 69-27. The bill now faces a veto-threat from Governor Bob Taft, who has time and again, proven he would NEVER compromise on making a concealed carry reform bill law. Both Senator Doug White and House Speaker Larry Householder say they have enough votes to override a potential veto. Due...

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AP: Taft says concealed carry veto likely

9:23pm Wednesday, December 10, 2003

UPDATE: The original AP story announcing Taft's new veto threat came at 9:58 p.m. The below contains updates. The Associated Press 12/11/2003, 3:27 a.m. ET COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest months-long struggle to allow Ohioans to carry concealed weapons has made it Gov. Bob Taft's desk, only to face a veto and an uncertain future. Ohioans could carry concealed weapons after passing a background...

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AP: Senate President says lawmakers close on concealed weapons compromise

2:58pm Wednesday, December 10, 2003

The Associated Press 12/10/03 6:40 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — House and Senate lawmakers, while debating public records issues and legal defenses, moved closer Wednesday to passing a bill allowing Ohioans to carry concealed weapons. "We're working very aggressively right now," he said. White said an agreement with the governor's office was "pretty close." The Legislature has been unable to pass a...

Toledo Blade: Showdown looms for gun bill

5:48am Wednesday, December 10, 2003

House, Senate preparing for vote as early as today By Jim Provance, Blade Columbus Bureau December 10, 2003 COLUMBUS - Legislative leaders will try to strike a compromise today with Gov. Bob Taft in a last-ditch effort to pass a highly controversial bill allowing qualifying Ohioans to carry concealed handguns. A joint House-Senate conference committee, charged with the task of working out...

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FLASH: House Bill 12 Conference Committee to meet December 10!

9:19pm Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that a HB12 Conference Committee meeting has been scheduled for this afternoon. With recent news about Ohio's skyrocketing crime rate, the time for delay and obstruction on this crime deterrent bill has obviously passed. Ohio's defenseless citizens deserve action on this bill. House, Senate, discuss weapons compromise with Taft The Associated Press 12/9/...

Columbus Alive: Gun rights activists take aim at Taft

9:02pm Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Published immediately prior to the Bexley 'Defense' Walk outside the Governor's Mansion, this story hasn't even begun to be dated. November 27, 2003 Columbus Alive OK, so Republican leaders are on top of preemptively striking down same-sex marriage and promoting an anti-abortion agenda (separation of church and state be damned). But on other issues that are important to conservative Ohioans, they...

Michigan media: ''CCW law looks like winner''

2:32pm Monday, December 08, 2003

Weapon carriers do little to alarm officials THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Sunday, December 07, 2003 By Ken Palmer JOURNAL STAFF WRITER GENESEE COUNTY - Some people who checked out clean for a concealed weapon gun permit are committing crimes, sometimes with the guns they were licensed to carry. But the number of violators has been so small - less than one-half of one percent - that even those...