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100,000 expected to seek [licenses]

11:17am Saturday, April 03, 2004

Sheriffs brace for gun applicants Dayton Daily News April 2, 2004 COLUMBUS | As many as 100,000 Ohioans are expected to apply for licenses to carry concealed handguns in the six months after the state's concealed-carry law takes effect next Thursday, Attorney General Jim Petro said. Petro on Thursday said he expects 95 percent of those who apply to qualify. His office prepared the pamphlet...

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BSSA President: ''ALL 88 SHERIFFS WILL ACCEPT APPLICATIONS APRIL 8''

11:15pm Friday, April 02, 2004

Over the past two weeks, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been working tirelessly with the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association to investigate reports of sheriffs telling reporters and constituents that they would not be accepting applications on April 8. On Monday, March 29, amidst widespread reports of potential delays, OFCC publicized a statement by Buckeye State Sheriff's Association (BSSA)...

Ohio Attorney General's office emails constituents re: reported sheriffs' delays

12:53pm Thursday, April 01, 2004

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 Mark Gribben Director of Constituent Services Office of Attorney General Jim Petro Thank you for your message on the difficulty you are having with the County Sheriffs. Unfortunately, our office doesn't have the legal authority to compel the sheriffs to make the applications process easy, although we have taken all possible steps to make it as simple as possible for them. The...

DDN prints reponses to ''Mad'' Mary McCarty

12:41pm Thursday, April 01, 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 Dayton...

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Deadly in Dayton: Gun control laws' failure displayed

11:37am Thursday, April 01, 2004

After reading these headlines from TWO DAYS in the Dayton Daily News, it appears the next Senate President, Jeff Jacobson, calls a very dangerous place home. We hope Sen. Jacobson is ready to lead the charge on making corrections to Ohio's concealed carry reform law, which was severely corrupted at the hand of Governor Taft, and a few term-limited Senators. He is expected to take the position...

Dayton VA Hospital shooting proves folly of gun prohibitions

10:02am Thursday, April 01, 2004

Federal law prohibits firearms inside federal buildings. State law prohibits this felon from being in possession of a firearm. Ohio's concealed handguns law isn't yet in effect. And yet this madman was able to victimize this nurse, before being stopped by someone with a gun (in this case, a hospital guard). This should be a lesson to the Ohio Hospital Association, which is encouraging hospitals...

Taft supports not ''stigmatizing'' ex-cons; insisted on stigmatizing CHL-holders

6:52am Thursday, April 01, 2004

Sickening. Gov. Bob Taft has no problem with making it harder for the public to obtain information on persons who have broken the laws he is sworn to protect. Yet in a last-ditch attempt to kill HB12 last November, he began insisting that law-abiding citizens who obtain concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) have their privacy violated, and their identities available to the public. No mention of a...

AGAIN: Dayton man shot while taking advice of Ohio Highway Patrol

4:05pm Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Dayton authorities still haven't found Tony Gordon's killer . And despite yet another attempt by the victim to follow the Ohio Highway Patrol's advice to "just drive away" when attacked, another Dayton man has been seriously injured in a carjacking strikingly similar to Gordon's. April 8 cannot come soon enough. For a look at how obstruction by the OHP and Gov. Taft has cost Ohio's defenseless...