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Hundreds of Ohio fugitives arrested in federal sting

5:19pm Sunday, April 17, 2005
Headlines across the state Friday touted local law enforcement participation in a national roundup of fugitives that the U.S. Marshals Service dubbed "Operation FALCON." From the Cincinnati Enquirer : Federal and local law enforcement officers from across the country announced the arrests Thursday, saying 10,340 fugitives now are in custody. The arrests, which were made the week of April 4, were...

Two more ''no-guns'' UDFs suffer armed robberies

10:56am Saturday, April 16, 2005
Earlier this month, Ohioans For Concealed Carry began receiving reports of "no-guns" signs being posted in United Dairy Farmers (UDF) stores in Ohio. An investigation by Business Education Coordinator Joe Eaton discovered the Ohio-based chain had just ordered signs to be posted in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana stores. Although it didn't take long for OFCC supporters to begin responding to the...

Column: Limiting gun access does not reduce crime

10:20am Saturday, April 16, 2005
April 13, 2005 Collegiate Times by Jon Laird One of the most common defenses for owning or carrying a handgun is "It's my Second Amendment right." Although this argument appeals to the strict constructionist, it is less convincing to progressives who view the Constitution as more of a "living document," free to be interpreted as necessary for the current times apart from the explicit intentions...

Richland detectives find suspect in string of area robberies

10:20am Saturday, April 16, 2005
The Mansfield News-Journal is reporting that a man who, after being found guilty of two fifth-degree felony counts in connection with robberies at Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco store, 855 Lexington Ave. on March 3 and was sentenced 11 months in prison, is suspected in a string of recent break-ins at area small businesses, was arrested Monday at 10:30 a.m. at 293 Superior Ave. From the story: "[Ryan...

Gratiot area loses 911 service

10:19am Saturday, April 16, 2005
The Newark Advocate is reporting that almost 1,300 Alltel customers in and around Gratiot were without 911 emergency phone service for about six hours on Monday. Erin Ascione, a spokeswoman for Alltel, told the Advocate a road crew mistakenly cut a fiber line on Gratiot Road about 9:30 a.m. Monday. Customers with a 787 exchange were unable to call outside of their exchange until the line was...

CCW news from other states

10:17am Saturday, April 16, 2005
ALASKA: Limits on local gun laws sail through the House ARIZONA: House OKs bill to let guns in bars, restaurants ILLINOIS: Dark day for Mayor Daley's gun control proposals MICHIGAN: Mich. weapons law may change MINNESOTA: CCW law ruled unconsitutional on appeal and Bill Introduced To Reinstate Handgun Law PENNSYLVANIA: Bills Aim To Beef Up Laws On Felons With Guns VIRGINIA: Virginia Tech's ban on...

''No-guns'' Fifth Third profit falls 6 percent in first quarter

7:17am Friday, April 15, 2005
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Ohio-based Fifth Third Bancorp has announced that its first-quarter profit fell 6 percent. According to the newspaper, the financial services company said its quarterly income declined to $405 million, or 72 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31 from $430 million, or 75 cents per share, a year ago. align="right"> Analysts surveyed by Thomson...

Eddie Eagle program makes a big impact

7:07am Friday, April 15, 2005
April 13, 2005 Houston (TX) Chronicle The NRA's Eddie Eagle GunSafe program, which has reached an estimated 18 million children nationwide and 1.4 million Texas kids since inception in the early 1990s, visits four Houston-area schools this week. The program, created in consultation with child psychologists, teachers and law enforcement personnel, is designed for kids in pre-K through third grade...

LTE: Concealed Carry [License] holders deserve privacy

7:04am Friday, April 15, 2005
04/07/2005 (Salem Ohio) Farm and Dairy Editor: It defies logic that some newspaper publishers advocate listing the identities of Ohio's concealed-carry permit holders - law-abiding and honest citizens who have a license to carry a concealed weapon. Why aren't they worried about the people carrying weapons who don''t have permits? What they are advocating is tantamount to saying that permit...

OFCC issues public records request to State Highway Patrol

1:26am Thursday, April 14, 2005
In light of the recent leak of OPIO State of Ohio News Media Credential Card application materials, and the denial of an application by OFCC's News Manager, OFCC has submitted the following public records request to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. To: Jeff Maute Central Records Ohio State Highway Patrol FAX: (614) 752-8410 CC: Michele LC. DeGraffinreed Administrative Assistant II Ohio Dept. of...

Party in the Park II Tickets now available!

12:57am Thursday, April 14, 2005
Lunch tickets for OFCC’s Party in the Park II, to be held in Powell, Ohio on July 30, 2005, are NOW AVAILABLE through the OFCC Webstore. Prices are $13 per person or $24 per couple. For every paid adult, up to two children eat free! Lunch will be catered by a well-known Columbus restaurant TBA. align="right"> As was recently announced , Attorney General Jim Petro has accepted our invitation to...

Grassroots action at work: Another ''no-guns'' sign comes down

12:52am Thursday, April 14, 2005
Submitted by: Robert H. April 11, 2005 I was just walking in the door at the Best Buy on Monroe Street, when I noticed the dreaded "red circle with slash on handgun". I asked the greeter at the door about the sign, as it was worded vaguely about who was allowed to bring a pistol in. He cheerfully advised me that it meant law enforcement only were allowed in with handguns. I told him I would be...

LTE: Handgun would have aided road-rage victim

12:47am Thursday, April 14, 2005
April 13, 2005 Columbus Dispatch The senseless act of a lowlife last week took the life of a father of three, Jason A. Schmalenberger, who was simply on his way to play golf ("Father of three stabbed to death," Dispatch article, April 4). Just another prime example of the type of society that exists today and just another reason to be armed. There’s not a doubt in my mind that Schmalenberger...

Police warn park-goers to be cautious about leaving valuables in their vehicles

12:46am Thursday, April 14, 2005
Cleveland's WKYC.com is reporting that police are offering a word of caution after a rash of car break-ins at several area MetroParks. From the story: Police have arrested two suspects, David Lewis and Timothy Wallace and recovered much of the property stolen from MetroPark’s Euclid Creek and North Chagrin Reservation. But they say this kind of crime is not uncommon, especially as the parks...

Ohio denies press pass to concealed-carry backer

8:32am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Regular readers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer will likely not be surprised that the following report contains less than half of the whole story. Commentary from OFCC's Chad Baus provided in blue . April 13, 2005 Julie Carr Smyth Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus- A volunteer for one of Ohio's most vocal concealed-weapons groups tried last month to join an enemy camp of sorts: the press corps. Chad...

Armed robber disarms armed cop in ''no-guns'' credit union

7:43am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
The Associated Press is reporting that an armed robber man stole a gun from an off-duty suburban Westerville police officer during a robbery in a "no-guns" credit union Tuesday. From the story: Investigators said a man wearing a fake mustache and wielding his own gun went into the BMI Federal Credit Union in Westerville near the Columbus city limits around at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday. The robber put...

Law enforcement actions in bar undercover case causes firestorm

7:21am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
by Chad D. Baus "Quis custodet ipsos custodes?", Juvenal Who will guard the guards themselves? That is the question OFCC asked after news broke that special prosecutor Gary Nasal (Miami Co.) had failed to obtain an indictment from a Shelby County grand jury after an eight-month "investigation" into Sheriff Kevin O'Leary's illegal release of CHL-holders' private, protected information to the...

Activist protests citation at park

7:16am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that the man who was cited on Saturday for violating a Toledo park rule which enforces a prohibition of concealed weapons in city parks, filed a police report yesterday indicating the city violated his civil rights. The newspaper reports Bruce Beatty also spoke with the city prosecutor's office and requested that the case be handled by a special prosecutor so there...

Violent crime down in Cincinnati

7:00am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
The Cincinnati Post is reporting that although (mostly gang-related) homicides continue to plague the city, violent crime is down so far this year compared to 2004. From the story: Violent crimes - murder, rape, robbery, felonious assault and burglary - are down 12 percent from the first three months of last year, according to police statistics released Monday for the first quarter of the year...

Good Samaritan helps woman after purse snatching

6:59am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Dayton's WDTN.com is reporting that a Kettering woman was the victim of a purse snatching Monday evening, but that things turned out OK after a few quick-thinking citizens chased down the crooks. From the story: It all happened Monday night around seven in the Meijer’s parking lot at Stroop and Wilmington. The thieves grabbed the woman’s purse and then ran over toward the McDonald’s on Stroop...

LTE: Concealed-carry list not news

6:51am Wednesday, April 13, 2005
April 11, 2005 Ashland Times-Gazette Saturday, March 19, you wrote an editorial criticizing members of the state Legislature for threatening to restrict media access to lists of concealed carry permit holders. You find it absurd pro-self-defense people believe publishing lists of those who are exercising their right to defend themselves invites criminals to single them our for theft or attack...

OSHP bureaucrats were wrong last time. Why listen to them now?

1:20pm Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Chillicothe Gazette is reporting on problems concerning the “plain sight” provision in Ohio’s concealed-carry law, which governs CHL-holders while traveling in motor vehicles. From the story: When a licensee steps into a motor vehicle or onto a motorcycle, the gun on his or her hip has to go one of three places: holstered in plain sight on the person, into a locked glove box or a locked case...

Privacy a concern for many licensees

1:15pm Tuesday, April 12, 2005
After a number of thinly-veiled swipes by several Gannett-owned newspapers that appeared an attempt to lessen the impact of the success of OhioCCW in its first year, the Chillicothe Gazette has published a story examining an issue that has had a negative effect on application rates. From the story: For the people who fought for Ohio's concealed weapons law, the fight isn't over. As the law...

Waitress fought off car thief

1:10pm Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Mansfield News-Journal is reporting that when a man tried to steal her 1994 Buick Saturday outside Bob Evans at U.S. 13 and Interstate 71, a 54-year-old Mansfield waitress pulled him from her vehicle and punched him several times. From the story: "I didn't want him to take my car," Mutchler said Sunday from her home. "I don't steal. I work. I don't bother anyone. I didn't want him to take my...

LTE: Pulitzer judges were journalism's second string

1:05pm Tuesday, April 12, 2005
April 11, 2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer As The Plain Dealer's paroxysms of elation over Connie Schultz's Pulitzer Prize slowly abate, it is instructive to look at exactly who it was that made the award to her. Seven judges decided the prize for newspaper commentary. Four were women. Females have a tendency to relate to those needing a helping hand, so that explains why the judges liked the fact...

Masked gunman robs Subway shop

1:00pm Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Akron Beacon-Journal is reporting that a gunman robbed a Romig Road Subway shop Thursday evening. A man who entered the restaurant around 7:15 p.m. displayed a handgun, told employees to get on the floor, took cash and fled on foot. Police told the newspaper the robbery was similar to the Tuesday holdup of the Long John Silver's restaurant at 2520 Romig Road. Whether or not this Akron store...

UDF's latest letter...to a guy with just a bit of victim zone experience...

4:49pm Monday, April 11, 2005
Roger Caron, a CHL-holder who has unfortunate experience with what it is like to be in a "no-guns" victim zone where only the criminals have guns, has notified OFCC that United Dairy Farmers has begun issuing a letter that reveals the reasons why they believe banning CHL-holders from their stores is promoting safety. From: [email protected] Subject: Re: local robberies To: "Roger Caron...

Ret. Army Major's CHL denial may go to top court

4:44pm Monday, April 11, 2005
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that the Ohio 2nd District Court of Appeals on Friday denied Harris' appeal of a Miami County judge's order upholding Sheriff Charles Cox's denial of Harris' permit request last May, and as a result, a New Carlisle man will go to the state Supreme Court to challenge the Miami County sheriff's denial of his application for a concealed weapon license. From the...

Law Enforcement Says Tracking Convicted Sex Offenders Poses Problems

4:41pm Monday, April 11, 2005
Dayton’s WHIOTV.com is reporting that a debate in Ohio and elsewhere is raging over the rights of convicted sex offenders. From the story: Florida authorities said they were misled by acquaintances of the man charged with kidnapping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Homosassa, Fla. Police said the acquaintances told them the convicted sex offender wasn't living in a trailer when he...

Would banning guns, swords or even kitchen utensils stop domestic violence?

4:39pm Monday, April 11, 2005
Dayton: Woman Shot in Neck Tries to Drive to Hospital A mother crashes her car after being shot in the neck, and police say her children know who pulled the trigger. Police say Shawntae Henderson was shot in the street near Conners and Germantown. Police believe the victim was trying to drive herself the hospital when the accident happened. The victim slammed into a parked truck, and then into...

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