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Youngstown Mayor McKelvey: John Kerry Can’t Camouflage His Record

12:45pm Friday, October 22, 2004
October 21, 2004 YOUNGSTOWN, OH – Democrat Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey today issued the following statement regarding John Kerry's hunt earlier this morning in Youngstown, Ohio: “The new camouflage jacket that supposed ‘avid’ hunter John Kerry wore today can’t hide him from a voting record that has earned him the distinction of being named the most liberal member of the United States Senate...

OFCC/ PAC represented at Niehaus Fundraiser in Senate District 14

12:43pm Friday, October 22, 2004
By Rick Jones, OFCC Senate District 14 Coordinator A fundraiser was held at the Ye Olde Lantern Restaurant at Second and Court Streets in Portsmouth on October 19th for Rep. Tom Niehaus. Rep. Niehaus, a 2004 OFCC PAC endorsee, was the winner of the Republican primaries held earlier this year and is hoping to fill the seat of Ohio Senate Dist. 14, which is being vacated by term-limited Ohio Senate...

What John Kerry did was not hunting - it was killing

8:40am Friday, October 22, 2004
by Larry S. Moore Of all John Kerry's flip-flops, Thursday's staged hunting trip in Ohio was certainly one of the biggest FLOPS. The effort to portray him as a "guy's guy" showed instead that John Kerry is still an elitist. Most of us struggle somewhat to get quality private habitat to hunt. It takes sometimes years to have a relationship with a land owner for hunting access. Because of his...

Disgruntled employee attacks workers; exits, reloads, returns

8:24am Friday, October 22, 2004
The St. Louis Post Dispatch is reporting that a disgruntled former employee opened fire with a shotgun on defenseless workers at Beltservice Corp. in a St. Louis suburb yesterday. As many as 130 workers milled about as the gunman opened fire, the paper reported The gunman fired at least five times before going outside to a van to reload . He walked inside to fire again, notes the paper. After a...

Letter to OFCC: A real choice for gun owners (?)

7:53am Friday, October 22, 2004
Fri Oct 22 07:21:22 2004 I am a visitor to your site daily. I usually like reading the stories and the armed citizen articles. I have one large problem with it though. that problem is the pro- Bush anti- Kerry rhetoric. The truth of the matter is that they both favor more gun control and have equally bad records on gun control. there is a candidate that shares your views though and his name is...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry would sign UN treaty treaty outlawing firearms

10:10pm Thursday, October 21, 2004
October 21, 2004 Newark Advocate About 500 organizations around the world, with the help from the United Nations and American politicians, are working to ban our guns. The first step will be an international treaty outlawing firearms enacted by the United Nations in July of 2006. This treaty -- the first step on their gun ban agenda before gun confiscation -- is a time bomb ticking underneath...

Kerry: sitting duck

10:05pm Thursday, October 21, 2004
October 21, 2004 Warren Tribune Chronicle By STEPHEN ORAVECZ AUSTINTOWN - Shirley Williams of Hubbard said Wednesday that she loves her gun and called the Democratic presidential candidate a backstabber. Williams, 71, was one of about two dozen people who attended a news conference at the Austintown Sports Center, where two representatives of the Bush-Cheney campaign said the president was the...

After staging photo-op ''hunt'', Kerry refuses to carry his own bird

12:04pm Thursday, October 21, 2004
October 21, 2004 Associated Press BOARDMAN, Ohio - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he bagged a goose on his swing-state hunting trip Thursday, but his real target was the voters who may harbor doubts about him. Kerry returned after a two-hour hunting trip wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, but someone else carried the bird he said he shot. "I'm too lazy...

Positive it'll never happen to you? Then don't get a CHL.

7:48am Thursday, October 21, 2004
You carry jumper cables, a spare tire, a first aid kit, extra blankets, flashlights and a fire extinguisher in your car. You wear your seatbelt. You buy homeowners insurance, medical insurance, vehicle insurance, uninsured motorists insurance, and emergency tow insurance. So why not carry the best-available tool of self-defense? These women were all lucky . Most abductees don't get to come home...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry is threat to gun owners

7:31am Thursday, October 21, 2004
October 20, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder OK, folks in the central Ohio area, here's the thing; The National Rifle Association has, as I sit here in front of the computer, just announced that it is endorsing George Bush for president. align="right"> I agree with them. The Democratic ticket can be characterized as the "most anti-gun ticket for president of the U.S. ever to be run for the...

Gunman takes cash from ''no-guns'' credit union

3:36pm Wednesday, October 20, 2004
On October 20, 2004, the Marion Star reported that Marion police and the FBI agents from the Mansfield office are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . According to the article, a white male entered the Marion Community Credit Union Inc., 810 Kenton Ave., Oct. 19 at 1:22 p.m., brandished a semi-automatic handgun and demanded that...

2 weeks till election - What is different this time around?

6:11am Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Ohio is a "battleground" state. We are not only one of the important states, but in fact the most important state in the Union for this year's Presidential race. Both Republicans and Democrats are bringing in massive amounts of people and money to our state. There is a huge amount of information, and even more misinformation. So what? There are 80 million gun owner in the country. "Just" 4...

FOP: Police Call on Kerry to Stop Misrepresenting Their Support

5:55am Wednesday, October 20, 2004
October 14, 2004 US Newswire WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of...

OH Sportsmen for Bush rally to counter Kerry's latest photo op

5:44am Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Sportsmen For Bush Coalition has announced a press conference will be held (today) Wednesday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m. at th Austintown Sports Center in Youngstown. Former State Representative Democrat Michael Verich and Former Chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife Mike Budzik will be joined by several other Ohioans in making remarks on John Kerry’s upcoming duck hunting...

NRA: ''We've found no evidence that [Kerry] owns a hunting license.''

2:11pm Tuesday, October 19, 2004
URGENT! Like your grandfather's M1 Garand or Carbine? Like carrying your favorite semi-auto shotgun into the fields on a hunt? Like admiring collector guns like the Browning Auto-5? John Kerry wants to take your guns - period . There exists a bill, right now, in the U.S. Senate, which would go far beyond the anything the Clintons did to threaten your freedom. Click here to read the summary of S...

Toledo's gun control laws are a proven failure

9:11am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Islands of danger, safety shape map of Toledo crime statistics The differences between Helen Weaver and Jackie Lothery are obvious. Helen, 79, is white and lives in a mobile home in suburban Northwood. Jackie, 51, is black and resides in a 19th century, wood-frame home in Toledo's central city. But the women do share something: the heightened prospect of being a...

Politics, paranoia fuel war of words over guns

8:44am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 18, 2004 Albany (NY) Times Union It was July 1998. Newspapers were full of stories about a seeming rash of shootings in schools. About 40 representatives of law enforcement, public health and other fields were summoned to Washington, D.C., to talk about ways to deal with gun violence in America. Alan Lizotte, a University at Albany criminologist, recalls with certain satisfaction the way...

Attacks raise concerns on OU campus

8:32am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 14, 2004 Athens News A string of sexual assaults on campus in the last month has raised concerns over the safety of students, particularly females, on the streets after dark. According to three separate crime reports posted in residence halls and other student areas by the Ohio University Police Department, all of the females involved in the incidents were able to flee the scenes...

FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise

7:43am Monday, October 18, 2004
October 17, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Robbery trend worries officials It’s not just the increase in bank robberies this year across central Ohio that has officials concerned. It’s how the heists are being carried out. There have been 95 robberies so far this year in and around Columbus, compared with 64 for the same period last year, according to the FBI. "Typically (80 percent) are nice and quiet...

Police say [''no-guns''] gas station was robbed

7:24am Monday, October 18, 2004
On October 15, 2004, the Mansfield News Journal reported that Mansfield police are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . The newspaper report says a 26-year-old woman at BP Duke & Duchess, 595 S. Main St., told police a man walked into the store at 6:17 a.m. He pulled out a gun and demanded money, police said. The man fled the...

Plain Dealer's Clifton a part of Ohio Supreme Court PRIVACY Subcommittee

8:11am Sunday, October 17, 2004
The following information was submitted by a reader to the www.ohioccw.org website. It appears that Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a member of the Privacy Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Ohio. This is very disturbing given his actions violating the privacy of Northeast Ohio CCW holders. http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ACTC/subcommittees/privacy/Privacy_Roster.pdf It is...

Britain: A gun crime every five hours since shooting of Danielle

8:01am Sunday, October 17, 2004
If he succeeds in fooling gun owners, and is elected, this is what those who support John Kerry for President will be asking him to do to America's gun laws - disarm the victims, and even disarm the police! October 16, 2004 The (UK) Times Online As a man faces court charged with murdering Danielle Beccan, a Times survey finds that shootings are becoming commonplace. The scale of gun crime in...

Two Ohio appearances for Dr. John R. Lott this month!

7:52am Sunday, October 17, 2004
John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime" and "The Media Bias Against Guns" will be in Ohio for two debates against what will no doubt prove to be uninformed, emotion-based gun ban extremists. Oct. 26, Ohio State University: Dr. Lott will be on OSU's campus to debate Jim Kessler, Americans for Gun Safety Policy Director. The focus of the debate will be: "Should Government in a Free Society...

Applicant: Lorain Co. CHL application logjam breaks?

4:52pm Friday, October 15, 2004
The following message was posted by a subscriber to OFCC's CCW-Talk discussion list. Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:02:49 -0400 Subject: [ccw-talk] Lorain County - quick turnaround! Greetings, Just wanted to give a heads-up to everybody regarding Lorain County Sheriff's office. Turned in my app on 9/22, got call last friday 10/8. That's 17 days! Hat's off to the folks at Lorain County SO. Very professional...

Letter-writer: Plain Dealer practices ''life threatening, dirty journalism''

4:29pm Friday, October 15, 2004
The following letter, addressed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer editor, was CC'd to OFCC. It is written in response to the Plain Dealer's latest abuse of a provision giving the media an exception to the privacy of concealed handgun license records. The Plain Dealer published still more names of Ohio CHL-holders in its October 6, 2004 edition. October 14, 2004 Dear Editor, I have probably bought my...

Op-Ed: The good guys carry guns, too

4:14pm Friday, October 15, 2004
October 9, 2004 The Roanoke (VA)Times by Ed Mitchell Jake is a good friend, and I'm sure he'll forgive me for not using his real name here. One of the reasons I like Jake so much is that he carries a gun. But you'd never know it. He's a big, friendly guy with a lot of friends, and he likes to help people. Jake's wife and two kids love him. From our long friendship, I know there's not a mean bone...

Letter to the Editor: Convoluted logic blames the gun, not the shooter

4:07pm Friday, October 15, 2004
October 15, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer In response to the Oct. 6 article "Gun used in shooting still exacting toll": As is typical for The Plain Dealer, a gun is blamed for the tragic shooting of a 10-year-old child. Not the 14-year-old who pointed the gun at the child and pulled the trigger, and not the criminal who dumped the gun behind a grocery store. Instead, the pistol, the manufacturer...

CRIMINAL CASHES IN: One, possibly two more ''no-guns'' banks robbed

4:00pm Friday, October 15, 2004
This week, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that at least one more "gun-free" bank has drawn the attention of an armed robber. According to the article, "the first robbery occurred at 1:45 p.m. Sept. 23 at a U.S. Bank branch at 5659 Broadview Road." "At 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 27, the same man held up a FirstMerit Bank branch at 6891 Ridge Road," FBI Special Agent Robert Hawk said. As OFCC has...

Kerry's Debate Comments Draw Fire

6:23am Friday, October 15, 2004
NEWS RELEASE October 14, 2004 NOT TAMPER WITH 2ND AMENDMENT? 'SEN. KERRY ALREADY HAS,' SAYS CCRKBA When Sen. John Kerry insisted during Wednesday's third and final presidential debate that "I will not tamper with the Second Amendment," he was being disingenuous, because he already has, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. Click on the "Read More..." link...

Oct. 26, OSU campus: John Lott/Gun Control Debate

6:54am Thursday, October 14, 2004
John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime" and "The Media Bias Against Guns" will be on OSU's campus to debate Jim Kessler, Americans for Gun Safety Policy Director. The focus of the debate will be: "Should Government in a Free Society Limit Gun Ownership?" and will be at OSU's Ohio Union East Ballroom at 7:30PM on October 26, 2004. The moderator is James Luck. This will be a formal debate with...

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