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Will OFCC PAC endorsee replace Speaker Householder in House District 91?

7:00am Tuesday, July 06, 2004
On July 5, 2004, the Newark Advocate published an excellent story, written by Jim Siegel, about 2004 OFCC PAC endorsee Rob Hood. In the article, Siegel wrote that Hood "shocked" some local Republican leaders when he won the March primary in the 91st House district, earning a chance at the seat that has been held by Speaker Larry Householder, who is term-limited. Hood beat out three challengers,...

PATRIOTS: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:50am Sunday, July 04, 2004
(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

If ever there was a time for Eddie Eagle...

4:34pm Saturday, July 03, 2004
July 1, 2004 Dayton Daily News Story edited for space Boy accidentally shot by neighbor, 5 DAYTON | A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot Wednesday by his 5-year-old neighbor who was playing with a loaded .22 revolver the older boy found in an alley, police said. Shaquonne McCarty was in good condition at Children's Medical Center, suffering from a gunshot wound to his left wrist, Sgt. Kelly...

KS: Workplace shooting at another ''No-guns allowed'' business

7:27am Saturday, July 03, 2004
Not only is concealed carrry illegal in Kansas, but this business had "No-Guns" signs posted on its doors, just as it does on its facilities here in Ohio . More multiple-victom public shootings occur where guns are prohibited. July 2, 2004 KCTV.com Five People Killed in Shooting at Plant KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A gunman killed four employees of a meatpacking plant and wounded three others...

SHAKE-UP: Jacobson drops bid for Senate Presidency

7:46am Friday, July 02, 2004
July 02, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer (story edited for space) Columbus - Sen. Jeff Jacobson ended his quest to become Senate president Thursday after information surfaced that he had concealed his ties to an anti-tax group that assisted his efforts to win the top leadership post. "In seeking the Senate presidency, I allowed myself to become associated with persons whose practices were...

TEN: Another national chain removes discriminatory signs

7:29pm Thursday, July 01, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry is pleased to announce that The Carter Lumber Co. has made a decision to open its doors to Ohio concealed handgun license-holders, just as the company has done for customers in eight other concealed carry states for years. In an email to OFCC, Carter Lumber's V.P. of Marketing, David McCafferty, stated as follows, and in part: "The signage that was recently hung in our...

Ohio CHL Reciprocity Update

11:15am Thursday, July 01, 2004
Beginning last week, Ohioans For Concealed Carry began learning that a number of states have announced that reciprocity agreements have been reached with Ohio regarding the recognition of concealed handgun licenses. While encouraged by the news, we have chosen not to publicize this information, because no official announcement has yet come from the Ohio Attorney General's office. Until it comes,...

Gun-rights advocate sues over weapons law

8:06am Thursday, July 01, 2004
July 1, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Lawyer contends language inconsistent Parts of the state's new concealed-weapons law are unconstitutional and were written by "idiots," contends a gun-rights advocate who sued the state Wednesday. Stephen Miller, a lawyer and handgun instructor from Independence, sued in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, asking a judge to strike down the law's language...

Toby Hoover congratulates newspaper under investigation for law-breaking

7:47am Thursday, July 01, 2004
For at least the fourth time since passage of Ohio's concealed handgun license law, one of Ohio's few remaining gun control extremists has praised law-breaking as a means of opposing Ohio's new concealed carry law. In a letter to Sidney Daily News editor Jeff Billiel, published June 30, Toby Hoover offers "congratulations" to the newspaper , which recently published the addresses of citizens who...

Op-Ed: Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten Gov't Plans

6:57am Thursday, July 01, 2004
June 29, 2004 Investor's Business Daily By John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer The gun -control movement is in trouble internationally. From Britain to Australia to Canada, promises of lower crime rates from gun control have turned into historic increases in crime. While the normal knee-jerk solutions are to press for even more controls, once guns are banned the explanation that the laws failed...

Vermont ladies ''Taking aim''

6:53am Thursday, July 01, 2004
June 28, 2004 Bennington Banner SHAFTSBURY -- "Most people don't think of women wanting guns, but we do," says Bennington resident Jane Moffitt. Moffitt, who hasn't used a gun in more than 20 years, wants to protect herself now that her husband has died. She decided to attend a free National Rifle Association-funded program just for women Sunday morning called "Women on Target." Moffitt, along...

Signs Down & Safe Alternative lists continue to grow

9:59pm Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Joe Eaton, OFCC's Business Education Task Force Coordinator, has received the following notification from First Clermont Bank: Dear Joe, We have removed our "no guns" signs from all First Clermont Bank locations. We gave the issue considerable thought before we added the signs in the first place, and went through a similar process before taking them down. Your letter was helpful, as were the...

OH Div. of Liquor Control clarifies position re: Class D and CCW

2:50pm Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry and the OFCC PAC are pleased to announce that efforts to receive clarification with the Ohio Division of Liquor Control over the law's requirements for Class D liquor permit holders have been met with complete success. At issue was the question of whether groceries and convenience stores which possess Class D liquor permits, but which do not dispense liquor by the...

Security guard shoots armed robber

11:07am Tuesday, June 29, 2004
June 29, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Security guard Donald Swartout felt like he didn't have a choice. He had to shoot the man who was trying to rob a charity ``Las Vegas Nite.'' "It was him or me,'' said the 68-year-old former policeman. ``I'm not sorry I shot, but I didn't shoot to kill. I was protecting myself. I just fired. He already had his gun pointed at me. "I would have rather caught him...

Assault weapons ban renewal in doubt

8:14am Tuesday, June 29, 2004
June 28, 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein knows the odds are increasingly daunting as she tries to win congressional renewal of her 10-year-old assault weapons ban before it expires Sept. 13, and she warns that if the law lapses "you can expect the market to become flooded'' with such guns as AK-47s and Uzis. The California Democrat will be home in San Francisco on...

Editorial: Printing CCW list is for public good

7:28am Monday, June 28, 2004
The Warren Tribune Chronicle was one of the first of now four Ohio newspapers to have published the names of concealed handgun license-holders as though they were social pariah. For this act, the paper was awarded the "Bandemonium Award" in the July issue of the NRA's national First Freedom magazine. June 27, 2004 Warren Tribune Chronicle For proponents of Ohio's conceal carry law, we offer a...

Letter to the Editor: Miss-Led is a bigot

7:09am Monday, June 28, 2004
June 27, 2004 Toledo Blade I was intrigued by Marilou Johanek's June 18 column regarding Ohio's new concealed-carry law. In the course of her ill-informed rant against this law she made mention of "obsessive nuts" and "misguided ideologues with aggressive tendencies." I think that I'll leave the name-calling to her. What was most telling about Ms. Johanek's column was her assertion that Ohioans...

Tellers thwart robbery

6:58am Monday, June 28, 2004
Ohio has one of the highest rates of bank robbery in the nation. Certain banks disarm customers by hanging discriminatory signs banning concealed carry. The signs, which are often obtained from the Ohio Bankers League, have done nothing to deter robbers. June 26, 2004 Columbus Dispatch A would-be bank robber walked away empty-handed this week after two tellers simply ignored him. A man walked...

Kroger security guard charged after shooting robber

6:51am Monday, June 28, 2004
June 26, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Guard shoots man he says stole groceries Shot fired into car after fight in Kroger parking lot A struggle over a shopping cart full of meat led to the shooting of a man by a security guard at a grocery on the Far East Side yesterday. Early this morning, police charged the security guard in the incident. The man who was injured was in stable condition at Grant...

When Businesses Disarm Employees...

6:32am Monday, June 28, 2004
June 25, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Barberton man sought in robbery AKRON - A Barberton man is wanted in connection with a violent robbery Wednesday night. Ozzie M. Mannwright, 22, of the 1000 block of South Avenue faces charges of aggravated robbery, felonious assault and assault. The robbery took place outside Onyxx Marketing, 1522 Home Ave., around 10:20 p.m., according to the Akron Police...

Letters: An unconcealed attempt to scare gun opponents

1:45pm Saturday, June 26, 2004
June 26, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer The June 20 pdQ article "Ohio concealed-weapon law carries its own smoking gun" portrayed a 12-gun-toting, villainous fictional character, "Captain Ohio." I see this as another misrepresentation of the character of law-abiding citizens who have earned the privilege to carry concealed weapons. To carry a concealed weapon, one must first get an application from...

First Year of MN CCW Finds No Predicted 'Bloody Streets'

1:35pm Saturday, June 26, 2004
June 20, 2004 Gun Week Late June marks the anniversary of the first issuance of a “shall-issue” concealed pistol license (CPL) in Minnesota, and in the past 12 months, none of the gunfights in the streets, shootouts at traffic lights or any of the other dire predictions from anti-gunners has come to pass. “I think the big story,” observed St. Louis Park attorney David Gross, “is that there is no...

Op-Ed: More Lott, Less Moore

1:30pm Saturday, June 26, 2004
June 24, 2004 TownHall.com By Mike S. Adams Last semester, one of my students told me that he was down on America. In fact, he said that he was ashamed to be an American. He didn’t keep me guessing as to the reason for his shame and depression. He immediately disclosed that he had seen “Bowling for Columbine,” on one of the two occasions the Women’s Center sponsored its showing last year. It is...

Op-Ed: Docs Gun for a Ban

1:24pm Saturday, June 26, 2004
June 23, 2004 National Review Medical journals trade science for antigun propaganda By Timothy Wheeler The gun-control movement's stock has tanked. Violent crime overall has continued to drop, leaving partisans to fret over the much smaller problem of accidental gun injuries. Most of the holdout states have now passed laws allowing citizens to carry personal-protection firearms — and civilization...

Toby Hoover admits posting discriminatory signs is a ''business risk''

8:16am Saturday, June 26, 2004
On Thursday, OFCC made readers aware of the fact that Ohio-based Carter Lumber is discriminating against its Ohio customers who choose to bear arms for self-defense by posting signs, but that the company does not and has not post signs in other concealed carry states such as Indiana and Pennsylvania. One of our readers is the woman who fronts the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, Toby Hoover...

Detroit Mayor ‘Finally Gets It’ About Thugs With Guns Following Shooting

5:19pm Friday, June 25, 2004
As one OFCC volunteer put it upon hearing news of this shooting, "this is EXACTLY why I carry in parks and why we need to be able to carry in parks. You never know where there is (as the Mayor called the shooter) an "idiot" like this." For Immediate Release: 6/25/2004 BELLEVUE, WA— The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today applauded Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for “finally getting it” about...

Letter to the Editor: [Publishing my private] info was 'shameful'

4:56pm Friday, June 25, 2004
June 25, 2004 Sidney Daily News Shameful is what I think of The Sidney Daily News for publishing the names and addresses (of law-abiding citizens) of the CCW permit holders. I feel the newsworthy story ended with the statistical facts of how many permits have been issued. A newspaper like SDN is one of the reasons why the lawmakers had such a hard time passing the CCW bill. SDN has abused its...

Letters to the Editor: Opponents' actions endanger others

8:05am Friday, June 25, 2004
June 25, 2004 Dayton Daily News Sheriff's actions endanger others Re: "Gun law changes sought," JUNE 10: I read with interest the article concerning Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary's disclosure of the addresses of people who had completed Ohio's concealed-carry course, as I am one of them. Much has been made about "those dangerous people" who are licensed to carry firearms. Contrary to...

Ohio Supreme Court to hear lawsuit against Franklin Co. Sheriff Karnes

3:34pm Thursday, June 24, 2004
COLUMBUS - Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that the Ohio Supreme Court, on a 6-1 vote with Justice Pfeifer dissenting, has issued an alternative writ of mandamus, declining Franklin Co. Sheriff Jim Karnes' request to have a lawsuit against him thrown out. The lawsuit, filed on April 9 by Josephine Lee, centers around Josephine's application with Sheriff Karnes for a Temporary Emergency...

Ohio's Carter Lumber posts discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders

11:37am Thursday, June 24, 2004
UPDATE! TEN: Another national chain removes discriminatory signs Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Carter Lumber, an Ohio-owned and operated building materials chain, has ordered its Ohio stores to post discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders. Carter Lumber has over 240 stores in ten states. According to several store managers in Indiana and Pennsylvania, they do NOT post...

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