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Jogger attacked on bikeway; suspect nabbed

8:31am Saturday, June 12, 2004
THIS IS WHY CONCEALED CARRY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY IS PROTECTED. 96% OF RAPISTS DO NOT USE FIREARMS. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO TAKE AWAY THIS WOMAN'S ABILITY TO DEFEND HERSELF??? June 11, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Attacked on a bikeway under a bridge, her cries drowned out by construction noise, the jogger battled her knife-wielding attacker for 20 minutes. "She did fight him back," Dayton...

Concealed weapon ban in parks not enforceable

7:44am Saturday, June 12, 2004
June 12, 2004 Toledo Blade Communities that ban people from carrying concealed weapons in parks despite a new state law have misfired, according to state officials. Such local policies conflict with the state's concealed-carry law and are not valid. Their enforcement could be challenged in the courts, said Kim Norris a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro. "If you are a licensed...

A few Sheriffs' difficult licensing procedures deterring applicants

7:18am Saturday, June 12, 2004
June 10, 2004 StateNews.org Not as many Ohioans as expected are applying for permits to carry concealed weapons. That is sparking renewed debate about the law legislators passed last year to legalize hidden guns. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. Click here to hear the story via RealAudio streaming. Commentary: Before the law was implemented, Ohioans For Concealed Carry projected that...

Lorain Morning Journal editors come unglued

7:25am Friday, June 11, 2004
One day after it published a very fair and balanced story on the issue of businesses asking CHL-holders to stay away , the biased Lorain Morning Journal editors went on a tear, apparently to try and make up for their losses. On the June 10 editorial page, the paper accused Ohioans For Concealed Carry of "bullying" businesses, and published two letters to the editor from gun ban extremists. It is...

OH Attorney General's office: ''Local ordinances [banning CCW] are NOT VALID''

10:04pm Thursday, June 10, 2004
Had Ohio citizens acted as these city officials are, they would have begun to carry concealed firearms when HB12, HB274, or even earlier bills were introduced, instead of waiting until they were passed into law. This behavior is disgraceful. June 10, 2004 Associated Press Gun Ban in Parks May Be Unconstitutional Several Ohio communities have banned people from carrying hidden weapons in their...

GUN RIGHTS GROUP WANTS INVESTIGATION, PROSECUTION IN RELEASE OF OHIO CCW INFO

3:03pm Thursday, June 10, 2004
NEWS RELEASE June 10, 2004 The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today called upon Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro to investigate the release of the home addresses of 87 concealed pistol licensees by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary, to the Sidney, Ohio Daily News, which subsequently published that information in its June 8 edition. "Release of this information is...

'No Guns' Signs Come Down in Ohio

10:05am Thursday, June 10, 2004
By Susan Jones, Morning Editor CNSNews.com June 10, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - Signs reading "no guns allowed" are coming down in some Ohio stores and restaurants. Ohioans for Concealed Carry said it is pleased to announce that two national chains -- Southwest Ohio Kroger stores and Perkins Family Restaurants -- have "begun removing discriminatory signs banning concealed handgun license-holders from...

Ronald Reagan: Armed Citizen

9:23am Thursday, June 10, 2004
SHAMEFUL: The Brady Campaign, and NBC`s Katie Couric, Try to Re-write (Reagan) History Reagan Was Hero To Iowa Woman Nursing Student Rescued From Mugger By Reagan June 7, 2004 TheIowa Channel.com Former President Ronald Reagan is known as the "Great Communicator," but one Iowa woman will always know him as her hero. Melba King was a 22-year-old nursing student in Des Moines in 1933. She was...

Shelby Co. Sheriff releases CHL-holders' protected, private information to media

2:13pm Wednesday, June 09, 2004
June 8, 2004 Sidney Daily News Sheriff's Office issues 87 concealed-carry permits Eighty-seven concealed carry permits have been issued to date by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary, according to a list procured from his office. Permits may be issued to any resident of Shelby or adjoining counties who pass the requirement for a permit. Those requirements include at least 12 hours of training,...

OFCC announces major progress in fight to educate business owners

12:20pm Wednesday, June 09, 2004
SIGNS COME DOWN in Southwest Ohio Kroger stores, Perkins Family Restaurants state-wide Ohioans For Concealed carry is pleased to announce that two major national chains have begun removing discriminatory signs banning concealed handgun license-holders from their stores this week. On Monday June 7, the Task Force received word that Perkins Family Restaurants had ordered all Ohio "No guns" signs to...

Concealed carry supporters deal businesses resistance

7:53am Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Please note: One of the businesses quoted in this story, Fligner's Supermarket, contacted OFCC's Jim Irvine after completing his interview with this reporter. After a short, informative conversation, Mr. Fligner, a gun owner himself, removed his signs. It is once again safe to shop at Fligner's. June 9, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal LORAIN -- Supporters of Ohio's new law that allows for the...

OFCC's battle against Section 9 violators gains momentum

7:42am Wednesday, June 09, 2004
June 9, 2004 Dayton Daily News Arcanum gun ban challenged State law says OK, village says no The village of Arcanum has banned concealed handguns from its village land and parks, despite a new state law that allows a person with the proper license to carry a gun. The Ohio attorney general's staff questions the ordinance, which is among the first of its kind in the state. At the heart of the...

''First bank robbery this year'' at posted Willoughby Fifth Third branch

3:10pm Tuesday, June 08, 2004
June 8, 2004 Willoughby News Herald Police, FBI trying to determine if crime is connected to others in area The FBI is offering reward money for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of a man who robbed a downtown Willoughby bank Monday afternoon. A black man wearing a navy blue hooded exercise suit walked into Fifth Third Bank at Mentor Avenue and Erie Street at 1:15 p.m. and demanded...

SIGNS COME DOWN: Perkins Family Restaurants cites good experience in PA

11:51pm Monday, June 07, 2004
Yet another Ohio-based business has made the corporate decision to remove discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders from their restaurants. Like Frisch's, MicroCenter, Home Depot and Giant Eagle (to name a few), Perkins Family Restaurants has responded to customers' questions about why these businesses were posting signs in Ohio, reminding them that they have been doing business in CCW states for...

Fremont News Messenger applauds passage of illegal ordinance

7:57pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 Fremont News Messenger Clyde's ban on guns in parks is right on target Clyde City Council members as the people's representatives in a charter-form of government took advantage of an opportunity to protect residents -- one that most other cities might not have at this stage. Clyde Council and the city's administration boldly decided to ban concealed weapons in the city's parks...

CNN Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Extension of Clinton Gun Ban

1:06pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 WASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "A CNN internet poll ongoing for about a month shows there is growing opposition to proposals to extend the 1994 Clinton era ban on the manufacture and importation of certain semiautomatic firearms," John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), stated here today. CNN posed...

Gun Control Failure: British Residents Trained to Treat Gunshot Wounds

12:59pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 1, 2004 British Broadcasting Corp. Red Cross officials are providing first-aid training to British residents living in high gun-crime areas so that they can provide basic first aid at the scenes of shootings, the BBC reported June 1. Training has begun in parts of Manchester, including Moss Side and Hulme. According to Red Cross officials, the goal is to save lives by providing residents...

Ohio Parole Board sets serial rapist on the prowl

12:42pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 04, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer What does the Ohio Parole Board have against the state's elderly women? As a recent article points out (" Convicted rapist will be paroled, must register ," May 28), a parole board has decided to release a man with a criminal record going back 40 years, including convictions for attempted rape as well as sexual assaults of women aged 72 and 84. In fact, he...

Man in Wheelchair Robbed

9:18am Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 Ohio News Network A disabled man was thrown from his wheelchair and robbed for his disability check overnight in the West End. The neighborhood says it's becoming a trend: Criminals on the prowl at the start of each month when they know welfare, disability, and other checks are issued. Criminals who do this are preying on the weak. Early Wednesday morning in the West End that was...

Gun carry [licenses] in demand

4:18pm Sunday, June 06, 2004
June 6, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Sheriff's departments say applications steady; 320 OK'd in Summit In Summit County, the applications are still coming at the rate of 100 a week -- people who want the right to carry guns. It's been that way since April 7, when Ohio became the 46th state to allow law abiding citizens to carry weapons. The process takes about six weeks. More than 320 applications...

Op-Ed: Taking aim at fear with a .22-caliber

10:59am Saturday, June 05, 2004
How tragic that it takes being victimized for some liberals to "wake up" on the importance of legalized self-defense, and how tragic that this woman believes a marriage license can protect her. June 2, 2004 Newsday.com By Susan Cheever The afternoon of the day I was attacked, I drove into the nearest town and bought a gun. In the report I had already filed with the police, I described the...

The System Works

10:19pm Friday, June 04, 2004
June 4, 2004 NewsNet5.com Man Arrested After Lying On Application LOUISVILLE, Ohio -- A man is arrested after he reportedly lied on an application to carry a concealed weapon. According to Stark County Sheriff's officials, while investigating Donald Holmes, 57, it was discovered that he had a criminal background. Holmes, of Louisville, indicated "no" on the application for the question asking...

Defenseless mall shopping can be deadly

10:00pm Friday, June 04, 2004
Illinois has no concealed carry law. Cook County officials and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley have a habit of penalizing the victim who defends herself with a firearm more harshly than the criminal who perpetrated his crime. So is it any wonder that a crazed man with a knife was able to stab five people and kill a 1-year old baby girl before anyone could stop him? Had this man attacked in an Ohio...

Store owner cleared in robber's death

8:35am Friday, June 04, 2004
Compiled from news reports by Cincinnati Enquirer , WCPO.com , and the Ohio News Network . June 4, 2004 Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen will not seek criminal charges against a Roselawn convenience-store owner who fatally shot an armed man intending to rob the store May 27. Abdrab "Abe" Ashishi, of West Chester was defending himself when he killed David Billups, 40, of Forest Park, Allen...

Man protests denial of concealed carry license

8:33am Friday, June 04, 2004
June 4, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder ZANESVILLE -- Harold E. Newell Jr. stole five cases of beer in 1966, and that youthful indescretion has prevented him from getting his concealed-carry weapon license 38 years later. "I have nothing to hide," said Newell, 56, of Zanesville. "I was a kid; I made a mistake. We confessed to it all, paid the fines and were given probation. But my constitutional...

Ohio Attorney General: Social Security Number on CHL application ''voluntary''

5:32pm Thursday, June 03, 2004
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has issued an opinion over recent questions concerning the legality of mandating that concealed handgun license applicants provide their social security numbers on the application. The opinion was posted on the AG's website without fanfare, and no press release was issued. This opinion confirms the position OFCC has taken on this issue for years: It is a violation...

OFCC PAC announces first round of 2004 Endorsements

2:51pm Thursday, June 03, 2004
The fight to restore Ohioans' right to self-defense was not an easy one, and passage of House Bill 12 came at a great price. While Ohio's new concealed carry law is already saving lives, many important provisions were left out, and many more harmful provisions were inserted, in order to get a law. Calls for making legislative improvements to this law started almost the day it was passed. But know...

AGAIN: Dayton Daily News employee robbed

9:37am Thursday, June 03, 2004
The irony would be humorous if it wasn't so deadly serious. This man's employer, the Dayton Daily News, has worked for years to prevent the restoration of his Constitutional right to defend himself, and they continue to rail against it on editorial pages today. Shame on employers like the DDN & Pizza Hut who would send their defenseless employees to places their corporate lawyers would never...

Hey Mr./Ms. Media...it's a LICENSE

5:25pm Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Although we've tangled a bit with certain journalists from time to time, our experience is that most in the profession strive for accuracy. So is it just us, or does the sloppy use of the word "permit" and "weapon" by Ohio's media to describe an Ohio Concealed Handgun License make them appear more than a little ignorant? In many recent articles, journalists have referred to a license issued under...

Some public defenders in Stark County get gun permits

4:58pm Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Canton Repository CANTON — Public defender Richard Drake has a new reason to brag around the Stark County Courthouse. It’s not a recent acquittal or a high-profile client. It’s a small laminated card — similar to a driver’s license — that allows him to now carry a concealed handgun. Since he received the permit May 7, Drake has shown it proudly, claiming it is the first license issued in the...

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