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Betty endures stale coffee & bad jokes to buy support

8:10am Thursday, May 26, 2005
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that State Auditor Betty D. Montgomery, who has voiced her personal opposition to an Ohio which allows law-abiding citizens to bear arms for self-defense, says she has the backing of 38 Republican county sheriffs in the race for GOP gubernatorial primary in 2006. From the story: Standing in front of 23 sheriffs in uniform at the Statehouse, Montgomery, a former...

LTE: Limits on concealed carry are just what criminals want

8:06am Thursday, May 26, 2005
May 25, 2005 Port Clinton News Herald Replying to your May 11 article of banning guns from parks. A citizen who has obtained a license to legally carry a concealed handgun may be your neighbor, friend or family member and has accepted the responsibilities associated with the license and is an ally of law enforcement. Would a park be a safer place if it were illegal to carry a concealed handgun?...

When justice fails to protect

8:02am Thursday, May 26, 2005
The Mansfield News Journal is reporting that officers arrested a 38-year-old man who was under house arrest on burglary charges Tuesday night. From the story: Gregory Sutton of 168 Western Ave. had been out on bond pending aggravated burglary charges. Mansfield Police Department Patrolman Dave Scheurer said Sutton still had an electronic monitoring bracelet around his ankle at the time of arrest...

More Post-HB 12 Road Rage

8:16am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The following stories provides an excellent example of how fights are escalating into shootouts on our streets in the wake of Ohio's passage of concealed carry legislation. Of course, as far as anyone can tell, none of the persons involved had Ohio Concealed Handgun Licenses... And of course in each course, where applicable, the news media failed to make that observation. Police probe drive-by...

CCW news from across the nation

8:13am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
AZ: Twisted coverage and myths shot down 'guns-in-bars' bill Why on Earth would the National Rifle Association promote laws so "gun-toting" people could "pack heat" in bars and not drink? Say what? That doesn't even make sense. It's beyond stupid. And in fact, the NRA promoted no such thing. But you wouldn't know it from reading the papers or following newscasts. The inaccurately characterized "...

Deli owner on W. 47th is shot dead

8:12am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a Cleveland store owner was gunned down Monday night in what police believe was a robbery at Tony's Deli on West 47th Street. Police told reporters that Antonios "Tony" Elbkessini, 48, of Cleveland, appeared to have been shot inside the small corner store but died outside on the sidewalk. From the story: Neighbors saw two men running west from the...

Gun control laws fail: Man uses gun to threaten woman

8:11am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The Sandusky Register is reporting on yet another example of how gun control laws are a failure at preventing criminals from obtaining firearms or from harming others. According to the Register, a 49-year-old Greenwich man is accused of pointing a loaded pistol at the head of a 44-year-old woman Friday at a Greenwich residence, telling the woman he was going to kill her, then pulling the gun away...

Update: VCDL petition effort to carry in National Parks

8:08am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
On Saturday, January 29, OFCC President Jeff Garvas announced that OFCC had recently has recently signed on to a petition effort started by the Virginia Citizens Defense League that calls upon the United States Department of the Interior to lift a ban on bearing arms for self-defense in our vast national park system. “Today, every National Park in the state of Ohio is off-limits to Ohioans and...

Newspaper polls prove strong support for privacy/ protection in parks

7:56am Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Two recent webpolls reveal there is strong support for issues that Ohioans For Concealed Carry is callign on the Ohio General Assembly to address in future legislation. For the past week, the Fremont News Messenger has been polling readers on whether or not the City of Clyde should be allowed to ban concealed weapons in their parks. At present, the poll is running 92% against the City of Clyde...

LTE: Banning guns in city parks makes sense

7:49am Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Every so often, it's good to remind ourselves just how uninformed our opponents truly are. OFCC PAC Commentary provided in blue . May 23, 2005 Port Clinton News Herald At last, someone with good sense has stood up and said enough; "Stay out of our parks when carrying arms!" and refusing to back down when confronted by the so-called hidden gun carriers. Yes, if you're a non-gun owner who likes...

Budget cuts: Some Lawrence Co. residents seeking own means of self-protection

7:46am Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Although gun ban extremists often suggest that rural people have no need to bear arms for self-defense because crime rates are low where they live, the Ironton Tribune is reporting that area residents have much to be concerned about when it comes to crime these days. From the story: They say when it rains, it pours and perhaps no one can understand the truth of that adage right now better than...

Crime spree suspects target chinese restaurants

7:43am Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Cincinnati's WCPO.com is reporting on a crime spree in the Tri-state that apparently targets owners and employees of Chinese restaurants. According to the news station, the crime spree spans three counties and the past month-and-a-half. Crimes have been reported in Mason in Warren County; Liberty Township in Butler County; and in Springfield Township, Price Hill and Norwood in Hamilton County. In...

Education Guide Lesson #10: The Second Amendment

7:37am Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Yet another eye-opening study course has been added to the OFCC PAC Education Guide . From: NRA-ILA: The Second Amendment On December 17, 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice published an exhaustive Second Amendment memorandum. It concludes without reservation that "the Second Amendment secures a personal right of individuals, not a collective right that may only be invoked by a State or a quasi-...

Cincy police want to get handle on increasing car break-ins

11:25am Monday, May 23, 2005
The Cincinnati Post is reporting that thefts from autos have jumped 3.5 percent in the first three months of 2005 over the same time period last year. From the story: With thefts from auto break-ins up dramatically in downtown Cincinnati, police hope a forum for downtown parking lot owners later this month could help reverse the trend. Lt. Mike Neville, commander of the Downtown Services Unit,...

Teachable moment: School teacher's gun fires live round

11:24am Monday, May 23, 2005
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Kettering police confiscated a muzzle-loading .50-caliber rifle from a Van Buren Middle School teacher Friday who was demonstrating a Civil War lesson and accidentally shot off a round in front of about 30 students outside the school. From the story: Kettering police said seventh-grade social studies teacher Thomas Saylor apparently didn't know the weapon...

White flag? Jointogether.org will no longer publish gun violence news...

10:06am Monday, May 23, 2005
Jointogether.org, which was originally founded to combat substance abuse, began supporting gun control efforts after having received funding by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation in 1996, and again by the David Bohnett Foundation in 2001. Last week, JoinTogether.org announced that, as of May 30, it would cease its practice of publishing gun violence news. Since no explanation is given, this...

Wild Boar Blamed for Golf Course Damage

9:40am Monday, May 23, 2005
Less than a month after rabid coyotes attacked several people in a Cleveland MetroPark, Dayton’s WDTN.com reported further proof last week that concealed carry in parks is a necessary defense against (two AND four-legged) predators: From the story: Monday we told you about bobcat sightings in Germantown. It's a different story in Preble and Butler counties though. Officials at Hueston Woods State...

Dayton Daily News publishes final report on CHL Records Roundtable

3:49pm Sunday, May 22, 2005
On May 5, the Dayton Daily News asked about 20 people to participate in a roundtable discussion about the issues of concealed handgun licenses and the public's right to know vs. an individual's right to privacy. The roundtable was part of a national effort sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors to encourage newspapers to discuss open government and freedom of information issues with...

One more thing before I leave to serve my country…

9:47am Sunday, May 22, 2005
----------Original Message---------- Date: Fri 20 May 2005 From: Justin S. Subject: Letter to Business Owners Hi, I am an NRA instructor and teach the CCW course. I am deploying to Afghanistan on Sunday as a Captain in the Army. Before I leave, I wanted to leave something to help continue the fight for the right to bear arms. Although I see a lot of the "No weapons" signs coming down, I still see...

Zogby Poll on Terrorism and Guns

9:42am Sunday, May 22, 2005
www.JohnRLott.com Since the 9/11 tragedy, anti-gun forces have tried to use the threat of terrorism to disarm law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners. Asked whether they agreed or disagreed that banning guns would reduce the threat from terrorists, poll respondents disagreed by a margin of 75 percent. Only one in five supported the notion, and five percent were not sure. Zogby polled 1,009 likely...

CCW news from the States

9:40am Sunday, May 22, 2005
D.C.: Senate to pursue gun ownership law for city Some Senate Republicans are preparing to launch an assault on the District's gun laws. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cronyn of Texas and George Allen of Virginia are signing on as sponsors of the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act of 2005. The measure would repeal the District's prohibition against most private handgun ownership...

Canada: Crime rate 66% higher in Prairie Provinces than in 4 bordering US states

9:37am Sunday, May 22, 2005
April 26, 2005 News Release Today, Saskatchewan M.P., Garry Breitkreuz, Conservative Firearms Critic, released two Library of Parliament research papers that concluded: ”Comparing average crime rates for 2003 in the three prairie provinces and in the four bordering states as presented in the report for those crimes that are similarly defined and measured in both countries, we found that, in total...

Man charged after two UDF robberies and high-speed chase

8:31am Saturday, May 21, 2005
One day after a school teacher was carjacked at a Cincinnati UDF store, WHIOTV.com reported that a man is facing charges this week, having been accused of robbing two United Dairy Farmers stores and leading Dayton police on a high-speed chase. From the story: A grand jury indicted Elmer Hampton on charges of robbery by force, failure to comply and felonious assault on a police officer. Hampton...

Medical errors still claiming many lives

8:29am Saturday, May 21, 2005
USAToday is reporting that a newly-release study shows as many as 98,000 Americans still die each year because of medical errors, despite an unprecedented focus on patient safety over the last five years. From the story: Significant improvements have been made in some hospitals since the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report in 2000 that revealed many thousands of Americans die each...

LTE: Restrictive concealed-carry law offers travelers in Ohio little help

8:24am Saturday, May 21, 2005
May 19, 2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer Stopping along the highway leaves anyone in peril. A Pennsylvania doctor, his wife and a relative stopped on the Ohio Turnpike to change drivers. A car pulled up behind their vehicle, and a man got out, demanding money. Then he shot and killed the doctor and drove off. Had the doctor been armed, instead of retrieving his wallet for the robber, he might have...

Op-Ed: Time to Control Dangerous Assault Journalists

8:21am Saturday, May 21, 2005
By Alan Gottlieb Seventeen confirmed dead and hundreds injured. This was not the work of some stereotypical lunatic with a gun, but the handiwork of a careless reporter who must have graduated from the Dan Rather School of investigative journalism. Now that Newsweek has lived up to the high standard of prevarication established by Jayson Blair at the New York Times and by Janet Cooke at Newsweek’...

LTE: Take fight to those with illegal weapons

8:18am Saturday, May 21, 2005
May 18, 2005 Toledo Blade The silence is deafening. That is, I haven't heard of any comments or apologies from the anti-concealed-carry or anti-gun hawks who predicted road rage and wild west shoot-outs throughout the state when the CCW law was enacted a year ago. However, after a year, not one CCW citizen has been cited for any reason. But the shootings continue as non-law-abiding crooks,...

Ladies: Protect thyself!

8:17am Saturday, May 21, 2005
Toledo: Police unveil sketch of assault suspect Toledo police released a sketch yesterday of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 42-year-old East Toledo woman after approaching her with a knife last week. The woman was walking home from a house in the 1500 block of Albert Street in East Toledo when she approached the viaduct on East Broadway about 7:30 p.m. May 12. The suspect approached her...

When awarding citizen heroes, why did Toledo PD forget the CHL-holder?

3:10am Friday, May 20, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that Toledo police held a ceremony this week to honor 19 citizens for acts that helped police solve numerous crimes in 2004. Conspicuously missing, however, is an award for a man who helped police solve crimes by using his legally carried firearm . From the story: "Help me," the 12-year-old girl mouthed to John Neal through the window of a car driving away from his...

Scope of Best Buy's discriminatory practices against gun owners still not known

3:04am Friday, May 20, 2005
As OFCC first reported on Monday, the posting of "no-guns" signs at Ohio Best Buy stores has been confusing from the start. From store managers who offered opposing excuses, to the appearance that the retail chain had been mislead by national office materials company g.Neil via the labor law "compliance kits" the company sells to Ohio businesses, there has been no clear sense of who ordered the...

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