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VICTIM ZONE: Mugging outside Blackburns Market

3:54pm Friday, September 03, 2004

Blackburns Market is one of several hundred unsafe businesses listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . September 3, 2004 Portsmouth Daily Times New Boston Police officers is [sic] asking for the public’s assistance in locating an man who mugged a women [sic] for her purse in a parking lot on Wednesday. According to a report from the New Boston Police, around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, a...

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Safer parks in Clyde: Order that bars gun ban is extended indefinitely

12:34pm Thursday, September 02, 2004

September 2, 2004 Fremont News-Messenger Unless the City of Clyde requests a hearing, a temporary court restraining order barring enforcement of a ban on legally concealed weapons from public parks will continue indefinitely. According to records from Sandusky County Common Pleas Court, Clyde City Solicitor Barry Bova consented in a phone conversation to the extension of the original temporary...

FLASH: Shots fired by robber at ''no-guns'' First Merit bank

9:59am Thursday, September 02, 2004

September 2, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal LAKEMORE - Police are investigating the Wednesday robbery of the FirstMerit Bank at 1502 Canton Road. Police said that a lone gunman wearing a black ski mask and sunglasses told tellers at 9 a.m. to put money into a bag he had brought with him. He fired a shot from a small-caliber semiautomatic pistol at one of the tellers, just missing her, then ran north...

Investigation of Shelby Co. Sheriff and Sidney Daily News ongoing

3:34pm Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry continues to receive requests for updates to the investigation of Shelby Co. Sheriff Kevin O'Leary and Jeffrey Billiel, editor of Brown Publishing's Sidney Daily News. On June 17, Miami Co. Prosecutor Gary Nasal was appointed special prosecutor by Shelby Co. Court of Common Pleas Judge John D. Schmitt, to look into possible criminal violations by Shelby Co. Sheriff...

Letter to the Editor: Do us a favor, ban the rapists

12:47pm Wednesday, September 01, 2004

September 1, 2004 Port Clinton News Herald If cities can guarantee safety in parks, then they can ban guns in the parks This is in response to your editorial of Thursday, Aug. 19, in regards to cities having the right to ban guns from parks. Once again the editors of The News-Messenger have demonstrated their bias and complete lack of understanding of anything relevant to what they are writing...

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Op-Ed: Pistols and rifles and cans, oh, my!

10:44am Wednesday, September 01, 2004

August 29, 2004 The Daily Camera by Jon Caldara align="right"> The so-called assault-weapons ban is about to sunset. About time. It was one of the goofiest gun laws on the books. It outlawed guns because they look mean — the perfect law for a superficial world. The assault-weapons ban was racial profiling for guns. Before we start, you should know I used to be like you when it came to firearms...

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Taft doesn't quite make it to prime time

1:22pm Tuesday, August 31, 2004

August 31, 2004 Toledo Blade Governor addresses a mostly empty Madison Square Garden at 1:50 p.m. NEW YORK - Addressing the Republican National Convention at 1:50 p.m. is like sneaking into Yankee Stadium at 2 a.m. and trying to steal second base. It might be fun, but no one sees you. But that's the time slot Gov. Bob Taft received as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. href="http...

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Ohio CHL: ''Do what's right, rather than what's easy''

11:54am Tuesday, August 31, 2004

----- Original Message ----- From: Baillie, Jack Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Ken Hanson article After reading Ken Hanson's article "Friends don't let Ohio friends carry on a non-resident permit" which you posted on the OFCC site yesterday, I found his point to be well reasoned and right on the mark. As a result, I immediately made arrangements to take the training necessary to...