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Signs Down & Safe Alternative lists continue to grow

9:59pm Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Joe Eaton, OFCC's Business Education Task Force Coordinator, has received the following notification from First Clermont Bank: Dear Joe, We have removed our "no guns" signs from all First Clermont Bank locations. We gave the issue considerable thought before we added the signs in the first place, and went through a similar process before taking them down. Your letter was helpful, as were the...

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OH Div. of Liquor Control clarifies position re: Class D and CCW

2:50pm Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry and the OFCC PAC are pleased to announce that efforts to receive clarification with the Ohio Division of Liquor Control over the law's requirements for Class D liquor permit holders have been met with complete success. At issue was the question of whether groceries and convenience stores which possess Class D liquor permits, but which do not dispense liquor by the...

Security guard shoots armed robber

11:07am Tuesday, June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Security guard Donald Swartout felt like he didn't have a choice. He had to shoot the man who was trying to rob a charity ``Las Vegas Nite.'' "It was him or me,'' said the 68-year-old former policeman. ``I'm not sorry I shot, but I didn't shoot to kill. I was protecting myself. I just fired. He already had his gun pointed at me. "I would have rather caught him...

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Assault weapons ban renewal in doubt

8:14am Tuesday, June 29, 2004

June 28, 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein knows the odds are increasingly daunting as she tries to win congressional renewal of her 10-year-old assault weapons ban before it expires Sept. 13, and she warns that if the law lapses "you can expect the market to become flooded'' with such guns as AK-47s and Uzis. The California Democrat will be home in San Francisco on...

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Editorial: Printing CCW list is for public good

7:28am Monday, June 28, 2004

The Warren Tribune Chronicle was one of the first of now four Ohio newspapers to have published the names of concealed handgun license-holders as though they were social pariah. For this act, the paper was awarded the "Bandemonium Award" in the July issue of the NRA's national First Freedom magazine. June 27, 2004 Warren Tribune Chronicle For proponents of Ohio's conceal carry law, we offer a...

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Letter to the Editor: Miss-Led is a bigot

7:09am Monday, June 28, 2004

June 27, 2004 Toledo Blade I was intrigued by Marilou Johanek's June 18 column regarding Ohio's new concealed-carry law. In the course of her ill-informed rant against this law she made mention of "obsessive nuts" and "misguided ideologues with aggressive tendencies." I think that I'll leave the name-calling to her. What was most telling about Ms. Johanek's column was her assertion that Ohioans...

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Tellers thwart robbery

6:58am Monday, June 28, 2004

Ohio has one of the highest rates of bank robbery in the nation. Certain banks disarm customers by hanging discriminatory signs banning concealed carry. The signs, which are often obtained from the Ohio Bankers League, have done nothing to deter robbers. June 26, 2004 Columbus Dispatch A would-be bank robber walked away empty-handed this week after two tellers simply ignored him. A man walked...

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Kroger security guard charged after shooting robber

6:51am Monday, June 28, 2004

June 26, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Guard shoots man he says stole groceries Shot fired into car after fight in Kroger parking lot A struggle over a shopping cart full of meat led to the shooting of a man by a security guard at a grocery on the Far East Side yesterday. Early this morning, police charged the security guard in the incident. The man who was injured was in stable condition at Grant...