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OFCC releases pro-CCW video spots online

1:02pm Thursday, September 16, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry announced today the release of two versions of a video advertisement promoting the benefits of obtaining an Ohio Concealed Handgun License (CHL) for self-defense. The video depicts a scenario involving a woman returning to her car in a parking lot, and being confronted by an armed criminal. "In the technology age, video productions are being utilized to communicate...

Op-Ed: Hunters shouldn't be fooled by Kerry's 'support'

7:12am Thursday, September 16, 2004
September 13, 2004 Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier We typically refrain from outright political statements in this corner as I learned long ago that three people could only agree on political matters if two of the quorum are technically deceased. While not afraid of controversial matters, I figure it is better to concentrate on our common ground rather than invite hundreds of rabid e-mails...

Mea culpa: Bureau of Workers' Comp buries ''apology'' on page 9

6:57am Thursday, September 16, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that, in response to questions raised about the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's use of its quarterly newsletter's front page this summer to promote an anti-concealed carry agenda, has buried a short "clarification" on page 9 of the Fall issue of Worker's Comp Quarterly. Begin QUOTE- Clarification The summer 2004 issue of Workers' Comp Quarterly (...

Law not followed in release of Lucas Co. CHL-holders' private information

9:45am Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that on at least two occasions, Lucas Co. Sheriff James A. Telb's office released the private information of Ohio Concealed Handgun License (CHL)-holders to journalists without having received the proper request forms. On September 8, 2004, WNWO NBC24 submitted a request "copies of all records" relating to people who have obtained concealed carry permits"...

FINALLY, THE END OF A SAD ERA - CLINTON GUN BAN STRICKEN FROM BOOKS!

9:31pm Monday, September 13, 2004
September 13, 2004 NRA-ILA SPECIAL Grassroots Alert 09/13/04 Today, the Clinton gun ban expired. The ban's enactment in 1994 was political chest-thumping and deceit at its worst. Now that the ban is over, as was the case for decades prior to and during the life of the ban, criminals still will not legally be able to possess these firearms. Law-abiding citizens, however, will once again be free to...

Op-Ed: Assault Weapons Ban Was Useless Anyway

3:46pm Monday, September 13, 2004
September 10, 2004 Los Angeles Times by John R. Lott With the federal assault weapons ban sunsetting on Monday at midnight, the gun-control movement has a lot to fear, but not what most people think. Despite claims that letting the 10-year-old ban on some semiautomatic weapons expire will result in a surge in gun crimes and police killings, the fact is that letting the law expire will probably...

Crime at 30-year low; DOJ has trouble figuring out reason

11:48am Monday, September 13, 2004
In a September 13, 2004 Associated Press story on a newly released Justice Department report, the Associated Press reported the nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973. According to the study, the 2003 violent crime rate - assault, sexual assault and armed robbery - stood at 22.6 victims for every 1,000 people age...

NRA Ads Focus on Kerry Gun Rights Record

11:01am Monday, September 13, 2004
September 8, 2004 Associated Press (click here for complete story) WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association mocks John Kerry's attempts to portray himself as friendly to hunting and other gun sports, putting the Democrat in its sights with a $400,000-a-week television ad buy in several presidential battleground states. "There's a 20-year record he's trying to run away from," said NRA chief...

Toledo's NBC24 goes against wishes of 88% of viewers, publishes CHL list

by Chad D. Baus
10:33am Monday, September 13, 2004
On Thursday, September 9, NBC24 (WNWO Toledo) republished a list of Lucas County CHL-holders on its website. The list had previously been published by the Toledo City Paper. In a statement published with the list of 650 names , the television station openly admits to violating the will of the Ohio General Assembly: "...the law says those permits are not public record. Only the media and law...

Secretary of State Blackwell Addresses Group

10:32am Monday, September 13, 2004
The following story, authored by Larry S. Moore, was published Friday, September 10, 2004 in the Greene County Dailies (Xenia Gazette, Fairborn Daily Herald, Beavercreek News). Republished with permission of the author. POWELL, OH - Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was the keynote speaker for the Ohioans For Concealed Carry 'Party In The Park' over the Labor Day Weekend. Blackwell...

SAF condemns ABCNews fraud in report on AWB sunset

8:43am Monday, September 13, 2004
September 9, 2004 - The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today called on ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and correspondent Bill Redeker to admit the network distorted fact during a report on the end of the so-called "assault weapons" ban that aired Wednesday evening, Sept. 8. During that segment, video footage from the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in March 1997 showed the robbers firing...

DDN: Woman uses BB gun to scare off intruders

5:02pm Sunday, September 12, 2004
The Dayton Daily News is reporting today that a 23-year-old woman used a BB gun to scare would-be burglars away from her Bath Twp. farm house last Thursday. The newspaper states that "Jessica Shafford said she was reading poetry at 2:30 p.m....when two men pulled up to the property. One of the men went to the rear of the house and began to remove a screen window." Shafford told the DDN she got...

Editorial: Elyria winged by its wild shot at keeping guns out of city parks

3:59pm Sunday, September 12, 2004
September 10, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal The decision by Elyria City Council to specifically ban concealed handguns from the city's parks carries no penalties. That makes it unenforceable, and Police Chief Mike Medders says it won't be enforced. Even if it's a symbolic statement against guns, as Mayor Bill Grace suggested, it's a bad move. Unenforced and unenforceable laws only breed contempt...

Letter to the Editor: Law-abiding Ohioans have right to carry guns

2:35pm Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 9, 2004 Port Clinton News Herald Regarding your editorial "Cities should have right to ban guns in parks," I believe you have missed several important points. Gun laws, like many other laws, need to be consistent across the state. That is why speed limits and traffic laws operate within certain guidelines across the state. Seatbelt laws designed to make us safer are consistent across...

Gun rights could play a significant role in battleground states

12:29pm Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 9, 2004 Springfield News Sun WASHINGTON — Large populations of hunters and gun owners in Ohio and other battleground states could provide critical support in the close presidential election, the National Rifle Association's chief executive said Wednesday. Candidates' stances on protecting gun rights could help attract enough voters to sway the election, NRA chief executive Wayne...

NRA-ILA: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN

9:40am Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 9, 2004 With only five days to go before the September 13th expiration of the 1994 Clinton gun ban, anti-gun activists across the nation are making a last stand to re-enact this ineffective legislation. But now time is running out. Congress is only in session three more days before the sunset, and because time is short, anti-gunners will be redoubling their efforts to extend the ban...

Editorial: Time to start teaching gun safety in schools

9:28am Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 7, 2004 St. Paul Pioneer Press by Mark Yost As the rest of Minnesota's kids head back to school today, they'll participate in a wide-ranging curriculum that will readily teach them how to swim, how to drive, how to safely handle potent chemicals, how to balance their checkbook, even how to conjugate verbs in a dead language. What it won't teach them is what to do if they ever come...

Facts on guns and crime reduction in Israel ''surprise'' Michael Moore

9:12am Thursday, September 09, 2004
Despite being an "expert" on guns and crime, Michael Moore now says he learned the facts about arming citizens and crime reduction only after he made his anti-gun movie: "After I made Bowling for Columbine, I discovered that Israel has one of the lowest levels of violence -- I mean, besides the conflict with the Palestinians -- even though there are so many guns around." (Admissions like this...

Akron police seek gunman who entered home

12:08pm Wednesday, September 08, 2004
September 8, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal AKRON: Police are investigating a home invasion in the 400 block of Perkins Street. A woman at the house told police a man with a gun broke into the apartment about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The gunman ordered her to lie on the floor. An upstairs tenant heard the commotion and rushed to the woman's aid, causing the gunman to cut his robbery short, police said. As...

Guns banned in Elyria parks, but there's no penalty

9:36am Wednesday, September 08, 2004
September 8, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal ELYRIA -- City Council voted to ban concealed handguns in the city's parks, despite objections raised by a councilman and although the ordinance doesn't call for any penalties. Council voted 10-1 to ban concealed weapons in all city buildings and city-owned parks, amending a previous ordinance that banned concealed handguns on all city-owned land,...

President of Remington Arms Co. advises Kerry on firearms safety

9:01am Wednesday, September 08, 2004
September 8, 2004 PRNewswire At a Labor Day campaign rally yesterday, Sen. John Kerry accepted an ironic gift from a labor union representative. The gift, a Remington model 11-87 shotgun commonly used in hunting and recreational shooting enjoyed by millions of Americans, would be banned as an "assault weapon" under a bill that Kerry is co-sponsoring. align="right"> "The semi-automatic shotgun...

Gun control's complete and utter failure on display in Ohio town

8:13am Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Compiled from reports by the Associated Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer . September 8, 2004 Gunman dead after injuring three GENEVA, Ohio - A woman grazed by a bullet dived into a parked car after hearing what she initially thought was firecrackers, while the gunman who opened fire on the town's main thoroughfair wounded two others before reportedly shooting himself. "I felt something hit my...

Another DDN employee victimized in a gun crime

10:57pm Tuesday, September 07, 2004
September 6, 2004 Dayton Daily News Senseless shootings kill 2 bystanders DAYTON | — Derek Ali, a well-known community figure and Dayton Daily News reporter, was killed Sunday morning pushing a woman away from gunfire at a Lakeridge Court party. Mr. Ali, 47, had been working as a disc jockey at the private party and was moving his DJ equipment to his car at about 1 a.m. A group of men denied...

Armed robbery in ''gun free'' credit union

10:16pm Tuesday, September 07, 2004
All Ohio Universal 1 Credit Unions are listed among the unsafe businesses in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . September 7, 2004 Dayton Daily News Man robs credit union, lingers DAYTON | An armed robber grabbed cash Tuesday at the Universal One Credit Union on Harshman Road. He then stayed in the branch for while, fleeing only after a teller asked him if he needed anything else. The...

OH gun club to Kerry camp: ''Oh, no'' you don't...

2:30pm Tuesday, September 07, 2004
August 31, 2004 Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer Dan Trevas, communications director for the Ohio Democratic Party, said Sen. John Kerry will make an appearance at the Fort Steuben Visitor's Center on Third Street between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday. Abdalla also said Kerry's campaign members have indicated the presidential hopeful would like to be able to trap shoot in the area if his schedule allows...

Hypocrisy: ''Kerry Co-Sponsored Bill Banning Gun He Waves''

12:40pm Tuesday, September 07, 2004
September 7, 2004 Drudge Report Was Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry seen this weekend waving a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law? Kerry co-sponsored S. 1431 last year (“The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003) which would have banned a "semiautomatic shotgun that has a pistol grip.” align="right"> Kerry was presented with...

OFCC's 1st Annual Party in the Park a great success

6:30pm Sunday, September 05, 2004
OFCC's 1st Annual Party in the Park, which featured Secretary of State Ken Blackwell as keynote speaker, was a great success. Most attendees would probably agree it would be hard to pick a high point of the Labor Day Saturday. Excellent food and fellowship gave way to an inspirational speech by Secretary Blackwell. Following the Secretary's words, several awards were given, and many lucky...

The ultimate case against disarmed victim zones

6:00pm Sunday, September 05, 2004
September 4, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial: We all are terror's soft targets The unspeakable terrorist takeover of a Russian school that left hundreds dead and wounded this week drives home the point that in the war of terror, there is no such place as a non-combat area. The experts call them "soft" targets - office towers, commuter trains, commercial airliners and now a school full of...

VICTIM ZONE: Mugging outside Blackburns Market

3:54pm Friday, September 03, 2004
Blackburns Market is one of several hundred unsafe businesses listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . September 3, 2004 Portsmouth Daily Times New Boston Police officers is [sic] asking for the public’s assistance in locating an man who mugged a women [sic] for her purse in a parking lot on Wednesday. According to a report from the New Boston Police, around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, a...

Safer parks in Clyde: Order that bars gun ban is extended indefinitely

12:34pm Thursday, September 02, 2004
September 2, 2004 Fremont News-Messenger Unless the City of Clyde requests a hearing, a temporary court restraining order barring enforcement of a ban on legally concealed weapons from public parks will continue indefinitely. According to records from Sandusky County Common Pleas Court, Clyde City Solicitor Barry Bova consented in a phone conversation to the extension of the original temporary...

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