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Crain's Cleveland Business publishes OFCC response to ''business scare'' letter

3:07pm Monday, May 10, 2004
The following letter was published in response to yet another letter to the Crain's editor from Cleveland Brady Bunch/"Million" Mommer Lori O'Neill. To those who read her letter, it must be obvious why she has much better success at getting letters printed in Crain's than she does with lobbying efforts in Columbus - the majority of legislators know better. May 10, 2004 Crain's Cleveland Business...

Gun Control March Lacked Numbers and Impact, Critic Says

2:27pm Monday, May 10, 2004
May 10, 2004 CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) - It wasn't a "Million Mom March" -- it was a "thousand gang limp," said one Second Amendment supporter, describing Sunday's anti-gun march in Washington. The Washington Post, which ran the story on page B-1, said "thousands" of people, mostly women, marched to "end gun violence" on Sunday. The newspaper described the rally as "the largest gun-control...

Cincy Biggs mega-grocery removes signs; great shopping alternative to Kroger!

1:07pm Monday, May 10, 2004
For those former Kroger customers in Cincinnati who are searching for a new place to purchase food for your family, Biggs Eastgate has removed signs barring CHL-holders, and has thus been removed for the "Do Not Patronize While Armed" list. They now join Walmart SuperCenters, Meijer's and a long list of other Cincinnati-area grocers that do not discriminate against people who choose to bear arms...

Concealed carry licensees from area are pleased with newfound freedom

1:22pm Saturday, May 08, 2004
May 6, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder ZANESVILLE -- More than a hundred residents in Muskingum, Morgan, Licking and Guernsey counties have received their concealed carry weapons licenses, and applications keep coming. Major Bryan Hoover of the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office couldn't determine who the first person to receive the license was, but 116 have been issued to applicants from those...

Advocates of the conceal/carry gun law say system is moving too slowly

8:02am Saturday, May 08, 2004
This story has been picked up by the Associated Press and is being printed in newspapers across the state . Permit process takes time May 08, 2004 Columbus Dispatch More than 450 conceal/carry licenses have been issued in central Ohio since a new state law took effect one month ago today, but proponents say sheriffs still must do more to ease the application process. In Franklin County, where 246...

Applications steady for concealed-carry

7:40am Saturday, May 08, 2004
May 8, 2004 Dayton Daily News The April 8 start of the new concealed-carry law was expected to generate a rush of gun permit applicants, but officials in Montgomery, Miami, Greene and Warren counties say the process is steady and manageable. "The first day, the computer was overwhelmed, but that was fixed and since then we haven't had any problems," Montgomery County Sgt. Larry Schroeder said. "...

Dear Kroger...

5:10pm Friday, May 07, 2004
May 7, 2004 I have been a Kroger customer all my adult life. The reason I'm writing today is to ask you if you wish to continue to earn my business. I've learned that you are enabling criminals and discriminating against my fellow American's civil rights in your Cincinnati-area stores by prohibiting their right to protect themselves. Specifically, you don't want armed customers in your stores...

MicroCenter signs come down; Kroger digs in for a fight

4:45pm Friday, May 07, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry is pleased to announce that MicroCenter has made a corporate decision to treat their Ohio customers exactly as they've been treating customers across the country for years. Discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders in Ohio stores are coming down, effective today. ----- Original Message ----- From: Customer Relations Sent: 5/7/2004 1:18:45 PM Subject: New policy Dear Mrs...

Court asked to void suit aiming to bar gun permits

3:09pm Friday, May 07, 2004
You heard it here first.... May 07, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus- Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop sheriffs from issuing applications for concealed-handgun permits. The Toledo-based Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence filed the suit just a week after the new concealed-handgun law went into effect April 8. The...

FLASH: Ohio Attorney General files Motion to Dismiss anti-CCW lawsuit

7:19am Thursday, May 06, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro's office has filed a Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit filed by gun ban extremist Toby Hoover, which takes the strange approach of asking the Supreme Court to order sheriffs not to perform their duty under the law. In the Motion, Petro argues that Hoover and her anti-gun attorneys (the Relators) "lack proper standing" before...

Store on Do Not Patronize While Armed list robbed, clerk pistol-whipped

2:50pm Wednesday, May 05, 2004
May. 05, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Dairy Mart clerk injured in holdup Robber strikes worker on head with pistol before fleeing with cash A robber entered a busy West Market Street convenience store Tuesday and struck a clerk in the head with a gun before fleeing with the store's cash. The holdup occurred about 10:50 a.m. at the Dairy Mart at West Market and Rhodes Avenue, just east of the...

Cuyahoga Sheriff can't avoid duty under law; settles concealed carry lawsuit

12:59pm Wednesday, May 05, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 5, 2004 Ohioans For Concealed Carry is pleased to announce that OFCC member and Cuyahoga Co. resident Jim Irvine has been completely successful in his lawsuit to force Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul to comply with his duty under the law. After having told the media that he would not accept CHL applications until "the end of May" or "the beginning of June", and...

Ft. Knox Ntl. Bank removes signs; Customer robbed at Fifth-Third

12:51pm Wednesday, May 05, 2004
by Chad D. Baus Activists throughout Ohio are continue to make OFCC aware of successes in educating business-owners about why making their stores criminal protection zones is a very bad idea. We can't publish every story, but the following emails detail how just one persistent customer can make a difference: April 23 : Just left my bank, First Knox National, Centerburg office - they are banning...

Kroger ''reexamining the issue'' after massive grassroots uprising

11:30am Wednesday, May 05, 2004
UPDATE: Kroger digs in for a fight . Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been informed by Kroger Customer Relations that the company is reexamining its decision to post signs barring concealed handgun license-holders from its Cincinnati-Dayton area stores. One of the most offensive parts of the decision by Kroger's Cincinnati region risk management division is that although that department controls...

Store owner doesn't conceal his stand on firearms

5:38pm Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Businesses continue to get the message! The Ft. Knox Bank, Home Depot Springfield, Roman Cycle and the New Philadelphia Walmart are all businesses which briefly posted signs, only to take them down again after hearing from customers. There are also businesses like Todd Whitacre's (see story), which are not only support by NOT posting signs, but are showing support by posting pro-CCW signs. The...

Gun ban extremists to offer first concealed carry ''corrections'' bill?

5:07pm Tuesday, May 04, 2004
OFCC members, training instructors, law enforcement officers and new concealed handgun licensees have already identified several problems with Ohio's concealed carry law that are in need of immediate attention. Restrictions on license-holders carrying firearms in motor vehicles which are not only unsafe (because they require too much firearms handling), but are unfairly discriminatory against...

Mall struck by 'Retail Rapist'; later posts signs disarming employees/customers

3:51pm Monday, May 03, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that one of the Ohio businesses which is discriminating against concealed handgun license (CHL)-holders, and acting to render their employees defenseless has had two high-profile incidents involving armed and violent criminals in just the past few months. In January 2004, a Van Huesen store at Prime Outlet Malls at US35/I71 in Jeffersonville was robbed by a...

SPITE: Two Ohio newspapers violate privacy of county CHL-holders

by Chad D. Baus
1:23pm Saturday, May 01, 2004
In the past two days, the Warren Tribune Chronicle (Trumbull Co.) and Elyria Chronicle-Telegram (Lorain Co.) have begun punishing the citizens of their respective counties as a means of protesting Ohio's new concealed carry law. Both news outlets published the names of every person who has been issued a CHL in the county. The Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel recently considered doing the same in Indiana,...

CAVE: Cuyahoga Co. Sheriff will take CHL appointments Monday, May 3

8:44am Saturday, May 01, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Cuyahoga Co. Sheriff Gerald McFaul has reversed plans to hold off acceptance of concealed handgun license applications until "the end of May", and will begin taking appointments on Monday, May 3, with the first applications being accepted on May 11. McFaul had already shown signs of weakening resolve, having announced that he would accept temporary...

Business ban hypocrite: Kroger stores in Ohio enacting concealed carry ban

7:40am Saturday, May 01, 2004
UPDATE: Kroger ''reexamining the issue'' after massive grassroots uprising Headquartered in Cincinnati, the Kroger Company has years of experience with doing business in concealed carry states. It is likely that CHL-holders have shopped at Kroger-owned companies while armed on literally millions of occasions. Several members of OFCC's steering committee were among those frequent (and armed)...

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