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Toledo Blade: Showdown looms for gun bill

5:48am Wednesday, December 10, 2003

House, Senate preparing for vote as early as today By Jim Provance, Blade Columbus Bureau December 10, 2003 COLUMBUS - Legislative leaders will try to strike a compromise today with Gov. Bob Taft in a last-ditch effort to pass a highly controversial bill allowing qualifying Ohioans to carry concealed handguns. A joint House-Senate conference committee, charged with the task of working out...

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FLASH: House Bill 12 Conference Committee to meet December 10!

9:19pm Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that a HB12 Conference Committee meeting has been scheduled for this afternoon. With recent news about Ohio's skyrocketing crime rate, the time for delay and obstruction on this crime deterrent bill has obviously passed. Ohio's defenseless citizens deserve action on this bill. House, Senate, discuss weapons compromise with Taft The Associated Press 12/9/...

Columbus Alive: Gun rights activists take aim at Taft

9:02pm Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Published immediately prior to the Bexley 'Defense' Walk outside the Governor's Mansion, this story hasn't even begun to be dated. November 27, 2003 Columbus Alive OK, so Republican leaders are on top of preemptively striking down same-sex marriage and promoting an anti-abortion agenda (separation of church and state be damned). But on other issues that are important to conservative Ohioans, they...

Michigan media: ''CCW law looks like winner''

2:32pm Monday, December 08, 2003

Weapon carriers do little to alarm officials THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Sunday, December 07, 2003 By Ken Palmer JOURNAL STAFF WRITER GENESEE COUNTY - Some people who checked out clean for a concealed weapon gun permit are committing crimes, sometimes with the guns they were licensed to carry. But the number of violators has been so small - less than one-half of one percent - that even those...

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Letters to the Editor: Governor gambles with Ohioans' lives

12:13pm Monday, December 08, 2003

December 7, 2003 Toledo Blade Governor gambles with Ohioans' lives Well, it seems Governor Taft just keeps pulling new surprises out of his bag of tricks. In his latest effort to ensure law-abiding citizens in Ohio remain at the mercy of criminals, the governor now wants a provision placed in concealed-carry legislation to require public access to the names, birth dates, and counties of residence...

More innocents attacked exiting their cars: OSHP & Taft prefer it this way

11:35am Monday, December 08, 2003

Dayton: December 8, 2003 Riverside police seeking masked men RIVERSIDE— Police are seeking three masked men who attacked three elderly Riverside residents with a handgun Saturday between 7:20 and 7:35 p.m., Riverside Police Officer Robert Naff said. The black-clad men, who are believed to be 16 to 20 years old, attempted to rob an Enright Avenue woman when she got out of her car and walked toward...

AGAIN: ''Solo open-carry in Ohio - a 5-cop encounter''

9:09am Monday, December 08, 2003

The following note has been posted to the OFCC CCW-Talk discussion list. The writer experienced the following in Hamiton County (Cincinnati) Ohio, where the Prosecutor's office has already made a valiant effort to inform law enforcement about the legality of open carry in Ohio: Talk about irony! The following happened right after leaving the Clifton/Cincinnati Open Carry Walk, which went very...

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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Defense Walks Memorable

8:33am Monday, December 08, 2003

All three Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 'Defense' Walks, the last of the traditional Walks for 2003*, achieved splendid results. About 50 Walkers braved the cold to attend the Toledo-area 'Defense' Walk in Perrysburg. Organizer Herb Worley reported that Toledo television stations, which largely ignored the first Toledo-area Walk in Swanton (only FOX Toledo covered there), were out in force this...