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Lake & Ashtabula Co. Sheriffs: Permit process now on target

3:17pm Friday, October 08, 2004
October 7, 2004 Willoughby News-Herald by Jeffrey Frischkorn Concealed carry advocates believe few problems remain With a number of the start-up bugs stomped flat, authorities responsible for issuing concealed carry permits say they believe the process is running smoothly. However, concealed carry advocates believe a few problems remain six months into the process. "We believe the process is...

VICTIM ZONES: Iraq Link Focuses School Worry on 6 States

3:08pm Friday, October 08, 2004
Does anyone believe terrorists will be deterred by Federal and state-mandated school "safety" zones, which disarm teachers and parents who have concealed carry licenses? October 7, 2004 ABCNews.com Schools in six states in particular are being watched closely based on information uncovered by the U.S. military in Baghdad this summer, law enforcement and education officials told ABC News. A man...

Men armed with hammer rob ''no-guns'' gas station

4:41pm Thursday, October 07, 2004
This gas station is listed among the unsafe businesses in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . Perhaps if they had posted a "no hammers" sign? Or better yet, a "no robberies" sign? October 6, 2004 The Times-Reporter Robbery by hammer in Uh'ville UHRICHSVILLE – Two men, one armed with a hammer, robbed the Starfire Service Station on W. McCauley Dr., Uhrichsville, early Tuesday. According...

Newsweek columnist learns how to love handguns

7:17am Thursday, October 07, 2004
October 4, 2004 Newsweek Firing Line - Our liberal columnist learns how to stop worrying—and love handguns By Gersh Kuntzman I had just heard the news last week that the House had voted to repeal Washington, D.C.’s strict ban on handguns, so I did what any self-respecting, gun-hating liberal New York Jewish journalist would do: I went to the nearest rifle range to blast some lead. This would not...

AP: More seniors are gun owners

7:07am Thursday, October 07, 2004
October 4, 2004 Foster's Online PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) — Merilyn P. Senter, a selectman, is a former hunter who still has the .22-caliber rifle her father gave her on her seventh birthday. Over the years, Senter, 69, added a shotgun and a handgun to her collection. She got the handgun for personal protection after she received two threatening phone calls, including one after her efforts on behalf of...

Attacks on Bush-Cheney HQs highlight fears of gun grabbers

8:10am Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Four recent incidents of violence directed at local Bush-Cheney offices across the nation draw attention again to the reason gun controllers oppose the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms for self-defense: they're afraid gun owners think like they do. Shots fired into Knoxville Bush/Cheney headquarters Shot fired at GOP Headquarters in Huntington Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney...

LEADS ''Warrant Hit'' problem solved for Miami Valley CHL-holders

11:32pm Tuesday, October 05, 2004
On May 11, an OFCC Team Leader and Ohio CHL-holder was detained by a Kettering Police officer, who had run his license number through his Law Enforcement Automated Database (LEADS) computer, and was subsequently advised the licenseholder had an outstanding warrant. In the LEADS system, when a warrant comes up on the screen, it begins flashing and beeping to get the officers attention. After...

Court ruling shows future of gun rights hinges on Presidential election

1:49pm Tuesday, October 05, 2004
by Chad D. Baus This week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a local California law banning gun shows on government property, such as fairgrounds. Taxpayers engaged in legal commerce can now be prohibited from doing so on the property they, in part, own and pay to maintain. Observers say the ruling is likely to lead to a host of similar ordinances across California, and beyond. If this ruling...

John Kerry's ''sensible gun control'' not working in Great Britain

8:30am Sunday, October 03, 2004
In its endorsement of John Kerry for President , the Brady bunch/Million Mom March have adopted a strategy suggested by Monster.com's Andrew McKelvey (founder of Americans For Gun Safety [AGS]) - to hide their gun control agenda in language designed to fool gun owners. McKelvey knows "gun control" doesn't sell, and thus has always tried to avoid being called that, saying it turns off a large...

All You Need To Know About John Kerry's Stance on Guns

2:26pm Saturday, October 02, 2004
Brady Campaign, Million Mom March Endorse John Kerry for President "...Senator John Kerry has consistently supported sensible gun laws throughout his career in public service. As a prosecutor and as a legislator he has been a leader, working with law enforcement officials on efforts to reduce gun violence. As a hunter and a war hero, Senator Kerry knows that sportsmen do not need military-style...

Uhrichsville McDonald's, plus 9 others, remove ''no-guns'' signs

7:06am Friday, October 01, 2004
Grassroots volunteers and OFCC supporters across Ohio continue to be successful at educating business owners and getting "no-guns" signs removed from store windows. "We are finding that business owners are very open to considering the facts, and reconsidering the logic of believing a sign can keep you safe," said Joe Eaton, OFCC's Business Education Coordinator. "By informing business owners...

Newspaper: Firearm fever in Russia

6:31am Friday, October 01, 2004
September 16, 2004 Pravda After the recent terrorist act in Beslan, Russians began purchasing legal means of self-defense. Some even address direct letters to different law-enforcement agencies across country with a plea to authorize sales of hunting rifles and self-defense firearms. State Duma plans to adopt certain amendments by the end of this month, aimed at restricting the overall turnover...

Robbed once, Willoughby store owners vow NEVER AGAIN

11:36pm Wednesday, September 29, 2004
The owner of Video Reply on Robinhood Drive in Willoughby, Ohio says being made a victim by an armed robber Monday, September 27 has given him a whole new outlook on self-defense in the workplace. Adam, a former U.S. Marine, told OFCC that although he is a long-time gun owner, he and his business partners Brian and Pam had "never felt the need to exercise our right to carry." "That has changed...

Op-Ed: District of Inequality

10:36pm Wednesday, September 29, 2004
NOTE: This op-ed was published in the National Review Online just hours before the U.S. House of Representatives voted 250-171 to overturn the gun ban in Washington, D.C. September 29, 2004 by John R. Lott Jr. Citizens go unarmed in D.C. while pols are free to protect themselves It is one of the benefits of being a politician. While handguns are banned for citizens in Washington, D.C.,...

On duty: Woodlawn Police take action against CHL-holders

7:56am Wednesday, September 29, 2004
---- Original Message ----- From: Julie S. Sent: September 26, 2004 Subject: Woodlawn police Late Friday (9/24/04) a Woodlawn police officer arrived at my job with a sign to ban concealed carry weapons. I walked out into the lobby as he was asking the operations manager for permission to place it on our door. I immediately told the boss that he did not have to put the sign up. The police officer...

VICTIM ZONE: 3 wounded, 1 killed in Michigan day-care shooting

2:39pm Tuesday, September 28, 2004
The Associated Press is reporting that a man opened fire at an in-home day-care center Tuesday, critically wounding two people, and killing a 3-year-old. Police are searching for the shooter, described as a black man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall, between 200 and 230 pounds, wearing dark clothing, and carrying a blue, steel semiautomatic weapon. Ploice say the man came to the door of the house on...

CONSUMER ALERT: Cleveland-area attorney selling seminars w/ ''incorrect info

12:38pm Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been contacted by multiple sources who are concerned about the actions of a northeast Ohio attorney at the Stonewall Ltd. range in Cleveland. According to recent visitors to Stonewall, attorney Stephen Miller is distributing a "bulletin" (see image) warning Concealed align="right"> Handgun License (CHL)-holders that "the law, as codified in the Ohio Revised Code...

East Cleveland mayor says '82 stabbing was self-defense

10:38pm Monday, September 27, 2004
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Saturday that long before she entered political life, the new mayor of East Cleveland, Saratha Goggins, stabbed a boyfriend to death. Saratha Goggins told the newspaper on Thursday that she stabbed O’Neal Price, 48, to death in 1982. Her disclosure came after the paper obtained a certified copy of a coroner’s report that says she admitted stabbing Price during...

UPI: Kerry denies owning assault rifle

6:40pm Monday, September 27, 2004
It wasn't Kerry's fault when he fell on the ski slopes while snow boarding (he blamed the Secret Service, telling reporters "I don't fall down"). It wasn't Kerry's fault when he bounced an opening pitch to home plate, despite the fact that he threw from the bottom of the mound (he blamed the catcher [a National Guard soldier and Iraq war veteran], telling reporters "He was very nervous. I tried...

Time is Running Out - Register to Vote!

4:50pm Monday, September 27, 2004
If you have not voted in the past four years, if you have moved, or if you need to register to vote for some other qualifying reason, please act quickly as you must register no later than 30 days prior to the election. From the Secretary of State's office website: Where may I register to vote? You may register to vote at the following locations. The office of the Secretary of State of Ohio, or...

Letter to the Editor: Editorial just gun-control propaganda

8:16am Monday, September 27, 2004
September 26, 2004 Dayton Daily News Re "Bush gun pledge just weasel words," Sept. 10: The sunset clause on the assault weapons ban was put into the legislation for the simple reason that many rightly believed there was no need for it. Now that the 10 years has elapsed, I challenge the Dayton Daily News to provide evidence that there is a need to renew it. The editorial's hyperbole about "...

'Patient' robber calm & cool in ''no-guns'' banks

8:11am Monday, September 27, 2004
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a 'patient' robber has quietly been robbing banks in northeast Ohio. The robber has hit the same Fifth-Third bank, inside a Tops supermarket, on two separate occasions within four weeks, advising tellers he has a gun. In an August 23 robbery, the 24-year-old female teller at the Fifth Third Bank was handed a note and the robber "stared at her as if he...

Mad science: Gun-law demise worries ''health experts''

7:04am Sunday, September 26, 2004
Health experts are concerned that the demise of the assault weapons ban will result in more gunshot victims and increased trauma costs, CBS.MarketWatch.Com reported Sept. 22. Officials said that the ban helped to make injury prevention a national priority. But with the expiration of the ban, "we're going back to viewing this as a purely criminal-justice issue and not a public-health issue," said...

Op-Ed: John Kerry and assault weapons: Takes one to own one?

8:13am Saturday, September 25, 2004
September 22, 2004 The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) CHASTISING PRESIDENT BUSH for allowing the ban on assault weapons to lapse, Sen. Kerry charged in a speech on Sept. 10 that "America's streets will not be safe because of a choice George Bush is making" and that "in the al-Qaida manual on terror, they were telling people to go out and buy assault weapons, to come to America and buy...

''Mr. Hero'' robbed at knife point

7:44am Saturday, September 25, 2004
A Mr. Hero restaurant in Mentor is listed among the unsafe businesses in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . It is not yet known if this particular Mr. Hero was posted as well. September 25, 2004 The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a man attacked a manager of a Mr. Hero restaurant from behind and robbed the business at knifepoint Thursday night. According to the newspaper,...

Child in Akron opens door for armed robbers

7:39am Saturday, September 25, 2004
September 25, 2004 The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a child opened the door for two masked men who committed a home invasion Friday. The Akron Police Department told the newspaper a child at a home in the 800 block of Fried Street opened a side door around 8 a.m. Police say two men armed with guns entered the residence and threatened a 28-year-old man and two children, 7 and 10...

Kerry shotgun still in WV; Democrat hasn't bothered taking steps to bring home

8:16am Friday, September 24, 2004
A September 23, 2004 article in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail revealed that the 12 ga. Remington Model 11-87 which was presented to John Kerry at a rally earlier this month has never left the state of West Virginia where the photo op took place. Presidential candidate John Kerry never took home a semi-automatic shotgun that stirred controversy when he accepted it at a Boone County rally,...

Cincinnati's Northside Bank posts ''no-guns'' sign on outdoor ATM!

7:53am Friday, September 24, 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:12:06 -0400 Subject: Concealed weapons notice I pulled up to the ATM tonight at Northside Bank on Colerain Ave. On the front of the ATM was a sticker stating, the carrying of a concealed handgun is prohibited at this ATM. Related Stories: Medina victim sues man who robbed her at First Merit ATM Victim Zone: Armed robbers strike on & near near UC again

Summer slump: CCW instructors looking forward to autumn rebound

1:34pm Thursday, September 23, 2004
Reprinted with permission of the Dayton Daily News September 23, 2004 Dayton Daily News Concealed-carry applications post sharp drop MORAINE | — Bill Seevers got his permit to carry a concealed weapon as soon as he could. Seevers already had taken a concealed-carry course and was ready to apply under Ohio's new law when sheriff's offices opened their doors April 8 to potential applicants. "Do I...

"No Guns" bakery corporation files Chapter 11

12:03pm Thursday, September 23, 2004
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Interstate Bakeries Corp. (IBC), the nation's largest wholesaler baker whose products include Twinkies and Wonder Bread, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The electronic filing, made shortly after midnight with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City, listed assets of $1.626 billion and liabilities of...

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