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Letter to the Editor: The facts on concealed-carry law

4:49pm Sunday, July 11, 2004

July 11, 2004 Toledo Blade One woman's recent Forum letter bemoaning the new concealed-carry law and predicting doom and gloom is a shining example of people drawing conclusions based on their own bias and remaining blindly ignorant to the facts. Fact: Almost every state now has a concealed-carry law; Ohio is one of the last. In no state have firearms crime or accidental shootings increased. In...

10 years of CCW in AZ: No data to suggest increase in gun crime

4:43pm Sunday, July 11, 2004

July 10, 2004 Arizona Daily Star Ten years after it became legal to carry a concealed weapon in Arizona with a permit, proponents say the law has been an absolute success, increasing self-defense options for law-abiding adults without a consequential increase in crime. While law enforcement officials still keep a close eye on the process and opponents continue to fight attempts to ease...

Op-Ed: Reducing crime, but not in the nation’s capital…

4:35pm Sunday, July 11, 2004

July 8, 2004 Townhall.com As readers of C-Log know, I am interning this summer at The Heritage Foundation, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. I had the good fortune of finding an apartment right next to Heritage, close to a lot of the other fun stuff in town. But where I live is also fairly close to some not-so-great parts of town – and from that hangs a tale. I moved in the very weekend...

300,000 Hoosiers have gun permits

4:29pm Sunday, July 11, 2004

July 11, 2004 Indianapolis Star Indiana second only to New York in number per 1,000 adult residents, Star survey shows By Mark Nichols and John R. O'Neill [email protected] In May, when pizza deliveryman Ronald B. Honeycutt was confronted by a gun-toting robber, he drew his own 9 mm and pulled the trigger, pumping more than 10 bullets into the Indianapolis man, killing him. Two months...

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Women and guns, a sign of the times

4:13pm Sunday, July 11, 2004

July 10, 2004 WKYC.com SUMMIT COUNTY -- In Summit County, nearly 1,000 people have received concealed carry permits and one in 12 of those gun carriers are women. “A gun makes me feel confident very confident because I can’t wrestle a man to the ground,” said disabled Sharon Pulling. “I look very vulnerable in a wheelchair, so people may want to take advantage of me more. If I have a gun, I feel...

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Letter to the Editor: Selective concern for wasted tax dollars

7:23am Saturday, July 10, 2004

July 10, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal To the Editor: In reference to your July 3 "Frowns" editorial about the lawsuit filed against the state regarding the "plain view" car provision of the concealed carry law: I agree the state should not have to spend money hearing this lawsuit. Using the court to change and-or create laws is normally a popular liberal tactic; utilizing a loophole to our...

"Constant flow" of CHL applicants in Summit Co.

7:18am Saturday, July 10, 2004

July 9, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Summit lets 973 carry guns There are nearly 1,000 more people packing concealed weapons in Summit County today than there were just three months ago. Since April 7, when Ohio became the 46th state to allow law-abiding citizens to carry weapons, the Summit County Sheriff's Office has issued 973 concealed-weapons permits. An additional 97 permit applications still...

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Wanted criminal found with gun in ''no-guns'' East Liverpool library

7:05am Friday, July 09, 2004

July 8, 2004 (Lisbon) Morning Journal EAST LIVERPOOL — A man wanted for failure to appear warrants out of the county is now facing a charge of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit after being found with a loaded gun in the Carnegie Public Library. According to Chief Mike McVay, the department received a tip that Nathan Criss, 28, 326 Blakeley St., was at the library and that there was an...