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Ohio's Carter Lumber posts discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders

11:37am Thursday, June 24, 2004

UPDATE! TEN: Another national chain removes discriminatory signs Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Carter Lumber, an Ohio-owned and operated building materials chain, has ordered its Ohio stores to post discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders. Carter Lumber has over 240 stores in ten states. According to several store managers in Indiana and Pennsylvania, they do NOT post...

Some seniors securing guns and training for safety measures

7:47am Thursday, June 24, 2004

June 21, 2004 Northwest Indiana Times Granny get your gun In the 52 years of business for Blythe Sport Shop, Les and Mike Blythe have watched their clientele grow and mature with age. With store locations in Griffith, Valparaiso and Portage, Les, 48, and Mike, 45, educate customers of all ages about their merchandise and wares, include guns. A new customer demographic even includes a growing...

Letter-writer responds to Sidney Daily News' act of publishing CHL-holders

7:26am Thursday, June 24, 2004

June 23, 2004 Sidney Daily News Licensee is law-abiding citizen Please call me your friend, your associate or your family member. I may be your delivery person, your meter reader or your minister. Call me your brother or sister, your nurse, care giver or a citizen who assist you in an emergency. I have probably owned a gun my whole adult life and lived next to you for 20 years. I have never...

It Can Happen To You

7:21am Thursday, June 24, 2004

Armed resistance to thugs increases the opportunity to save innocent lives. Resistance by any other method - or no resistance at all - can be deadly. June 23, 2004 ChannelCincinnati.com Shootings Followed Botched Robberies, Police Say CINCINNATI -- A 14-year-old boy who is already being held on murder charges is now being charged with killing another person days after the first homicide. David...

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Dayton Daily News of two minds on law enforcement release of classified data?

10:07am Wednesday, June 23, 2004

June 23, 2004 Dayton Daily News Eaton says chief gave out classified data He got information from LEADS EATON | Eaton officials Monday acknowledged Police Chief Philip L. Romeo shared classified information with the school district superintendent about a Dayton Daily News vehicle used during a statewide public records project. It is against Ohio law for law enforcement officials to share...

Grandma: ''If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue''

7:49am Wednesday, June 23, 2004

June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade Rita Dipman had seen enough, heard enough. When it started to happen to her on Sunday, she was ready. "If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue," she said. On Sunday afternoon, Ms. Dipman, 52, was eating at the Subway sandwich store on Main Street in East Toledo with her 3-year-old granddaughter when a man robbed the store. Seeing the commotion, Ms. Dipman...

Findlay police investigate paper carrier assaults

7:11am Wednesday, June 23, 2004

June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade FINDLAY - Police are investigating two incidents in which newspaper carriers were assaulted while doing their route. Thursday, a woman was assaulted and knocked to the ground while delivering papers in the 200 block of East Wallace Street about 5 a.m. Two days earlier, a young girl delivering papers in the 200 block of Lester Avenue was knocked to the ground by a man...

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Editorial: Leave guns out of parks

10:37pm Tuesday, June 22, 2004

June 22, 2004 Elyria Chronicle Telegram When the state's concealed carry law went into effect in April, the Elyria City Council voted unanimously to ban the carrying of guns onto city-owned property, including parks. Now the state Legislature is considering whether to pass a law that would support Council's decision. State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, D-Cleveland, is among those sponsoring a bill that...