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Xenia 'Defense' Walker collects over 190,000 votes in US Senate primary

9:01am Thursday, March 04, 2004

On a day when Ohio's Republican US Senators (Mike DeWine and George Voinovich) were voting to renew the Clinton Gun Ban and to put an end to gun shows (votes which killed an strongly supported legislative attempt to protect gun manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits), Ohio's conservative Republican voters were at the polls, firing another shot across the bow of the state's liberal Republican...

Op-Ed: Senate bill can end misleading debate on guns

8:30am Thursday, March 04, 2004

Mar. 02, 2004 Philadelphia Enquirer by John R. Lott Jr. Gun-control advocates should fear the votes today in the Senate, but not for the reason that most people think. Some claim that letting the ban on some semiautomatic weapons expire will cause a surge of police killings and a rise in gun crimes. But in fact, letting the law expire will show the uselessness of gun-control regulations. A year...

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Foxnews.com: Do Gun Control Activists Pad Gun Death Statistics?

3:39pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

And yet Senators Voinovich and DeWine voted with these dishonest, misleading gun ban extremists to renew the 1992 Clinton Gun Ban... Foxnews.com March 3, 2004 Last week’s release of police documents and evidence on the April, 1999, Columbine school shootings has sparked many questions — not only on the specifics of Columbine but also on the general issue of guns. The answers are unsatisfying on...

Proof yet again - gun control an utter failure in Ohio

2:59pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

So how again are Ohio's draconian gun control laws, which serve only to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens, supposed to be helping take guns off the streets? And what did the 1992 Clinton assault weapons ban (which received renewal 'yes' votes from Senators Voinovich and DeWine this week) do to stop this 80 round magazine from being sold in Cincinnati? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. February...

Bucyrus women need to hear the REAL story on self-defense

2:29pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Pity the poor woman in Bucyrus who attempts to ward off a violent attacker with a rolled-up newspaper or shoe instead of a .38 or .45. But that's the advice they got at this so-called self-defense seminar... March 1, 2004 Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum Classes on women's issues conducted Dee Marquart wasn't afraid to fight with a Bucyrus police officer, and neither was a police officer's wife, Joan...

OFCC PAC endorsees score key victories in 2004 party primaries

1:10am Wednesday, March 03, 2004

A little over one year ago, several OFCC members formed the OFCC Political Action Committee ( www.buckeyefirearms.org ). Time was critical - there were only 60 days before the November 2002 elections. We told potential supporters that the time was ripe to make a difference, and to reinforce the General Assembly and Supreme Court with candidates who supported your right to self-defense. In the...

WCPO: Ohioans Gear Up For New Concealed Carry Law

12:52pm Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Could this be WCPO's attempt to balance their recent "scare business about concealed carry" report? March 1, 2004 Cincinnati WCPO (ABC) TV People have been lining up to buy them and now they are lining up to learn how to use them. Ohio's new concealed carry law has driven a tremendous amount of interest in handguns. The new law signed in January does not go into affect until April 8, but Ohioans...

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Frisch's Inc. makes move to ban concealed carry in OH, IN, KY and TN

6:57pm Monday, March 01, 2004

UPDATE: Frisch's Inc. signs coming down ! "I recently saw my first Ohio no-CCW sign. Golden Corral restaurant on Commons Blvd. in Beavercreek, OH has a sign at the entrance stating "Concealed weapons not allowed on these premises", with a picture of a revolver with a red circle-and-slash over it." "My wife and I went out to dinner last night at the Big Boy restaurant in Marysville. Prominently...