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Some seniors securing guns and training for safety measures

7:47am Thursday, June 24, 2004
June 21, 2004 Northwest Indiana Times Granny get your gun In the 52 years of business for Blythe Sport Shop, Les and Mike Blythe have watched their clientele grow and mature with age. With store locations in Griffith, Valparaiso and Portage, Les, 48, and Mike, 45, educate customers of all ages about their merchandise and wares, include guns. A new customer demographic even includes a growing...

Letter-writer responds to Sidney Daily News' act of publishing CHL-holders

7:26am Thursday, June 24, 2004
June 23, 2004 Sidney Daily News Licensee is law-abiding citizen Please call me your friend, your associate or your family member. I may be your delivery person, your meter reader or your minister. Call me your brother or sister, your nurse, care giver or a citizen who assist you in an emergency. I have probably owned a gun my whole adult life and lived next to you for 20 years. I have never...

It Can Happen To You

7:21am Thursday, June 24, 2004
Armed resistance to thugs increases the opportunity to save innocent lives. Resistance by any other method - or no resistance at all - can be deadly. June 23, 2004 ChannelCincinnati.com Shootings Followed Botched Robberies, Police Say CINCINNATI -- A 14-year-old boy who is already being held on murder charges is now being charged with killing another person days after the first homicide. David...

Dayton Daily News of two minds on law enforcement release of classified data?

10:07am Wednesday, June 23, 2004
June 23, 2004 Dayton Daily News Eaton says chief gave out classified data He got information from LEADS EATON | Eaton officials Monday acknowledged Police Chief Philip L. Romeo shared classified information with the school district superintendent about a Dayton Daily News vehicle used during a statewide public records project. It is against Ohio law for law enforcement officials to share...

Grandma: ''If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue''

7:49am Wednesday, June 23, 2004
June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade Rita Dipman had seen enough, heard enough. When it started to happen to her on Sunday, she was ready. "If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue," she said. On Sunday afternoon, Ms. Dipman, 52, was eating at the Subway sandwich store on Main Street in East Toledo with her 3-year-old granddaughter when a man robbed the store. Seeing the commotion, Ms. Dipman...

Findlay police investigate paper carrier assaults

7:11am Wednesday, June 23, 2004
June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade FINDLAY - Police are investigating two incidents in which newspaper carriers were assaulted while doing their route. Thursday, a woman was assaulted and knocked to the ground while delivering papers in the 200 block of East Wallace Street about 5 a.m. Two days earlier, a young girl delivering papers in the 200 block of Lester Avenue was knocked to the ground by a man...

Editorial: Leave guns out of parks

10:37pm Tuesday, June 22, 2004
June 22, 2004 Elyria Chronicle Telegram When the state's concealed carry law went into effect in April, the Elyria City Council voted unanimously to ban the carrying of guns onto city-owned property, including parks. Now the state Legislature is considering whether to pass a law that would support Council's decision. State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, D-Cleveland, is among those sponsoring a bill that...

Troy Daily News latest to violate privacy of CHL-holders

by Chad D. Baus
12:01pm Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Editor's Note: Please keep the following position of the Ohio Attorney General's office, which can be found in a document entitled "Use of Personally Identifying Information" (.pdf) , in mind as you read the following story: In limited instances, a journalist may make a written request to a county sheriff to obtain a licensee’s name, date of birth, county and the type of license (standard or...

Public’s right to know vs. privacy is important battle for everyone

7:53am Tuesday, June 22, 2004
June 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch by Lee Leonard You could stuff in a broom closet the number of folks who gave a hoot last week when Ohio’s newspapers complained about the lack of compliance with the public-records law. Who cares that half the time a secretary will stall or flatout refuse a request to see a school superintendent’s salary or the minutes of the last board meeting for a public agency...

Letter to the Editor: Breaking the law of concealed carry

7:48am Tuesday, June 22, 2004
June 20, 2004 Toledo Blade I read with interest stories about bureaucrats in Toledo, Clyde, Arcanum, and other cities passing ordinances or rules banning concealed carry, in spite of a firm statement by the Ohio attorney general that their acts are illegal under Section 9 of House Bill 12. Had the law-abiding citizens of Ohio acted as these city officials are, they would have begun to carry...

Disarmed at home: when landlords get political

11:17pm Monday, June 21, 2004
June 19, 2004 Dayton Daily News Man shot, robbed in parking lot HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County — Montgomery County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who robbed and shot a Piqua-area man outside an apartment complex Friday. The victim, 33, was with a female relative at Northland Village Apartments, 5216 Embassy Place. He was standing in the parking lot with another woman when a male...

Toby Hoover recognizes benefits of concealed security

10:07pm Monday, June 21, 2004
In recent letter to the Lorain Morning Journal , gun ban extremist Toby Hoover, who fronts what often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, told the newspaper that Ohioans For Concealed Carry and others are ''promoting the false danger that to have your business weapon-free invites criminal activity.'' ''The reality is criminals have no way of knowing what...

Resident kills man in home, police say

6:56pm Monday, June 21, 2004
June 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch A Northwest Side resident fatally shot a suspected burglar inside an apartment Saturday night, Columbus police said. John A. Webb, 31, was taken to Ohio State University Medical Center, where he died. Police found Webb inside 5846 Abbey Church Rd. in the Lakeview Square apartment complex about 11:30 p.m. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the upper body, police...

More good news about liberalized gun laws...from gun ban extremists!

6:22pm Monday, June 21, 2004
June 14, 2004 Jointogether.org Teen Gun Suicide Rate Declines A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study finds that the number of suicides by youngsters and teens declined 25 percent in the last decade. The study also shows a significant decrease in gun suicides, the Associated Press reported June 10. According to the CDC report, the number of suicides declined from 2,151 in 1992 to...

ON TARGET: Increasingly, women are carrying guns...

6:00pm Monday, June 21, 2004
...and learning to use them. June 15, 2004 Grand Rapids (MI) Press WYOMING -- Sharon Crow used to cry at the first pop of gunfire. The sound traumatized the 49-year-old Wyoming woman years ago when her brother attempted suicide by shooting himself. Now, Crow is turning the corner and looking to arm herself, the result of conquering her fear through handgun education. "My motto in life is,...

Deputy accused of threatening cabbie with gun is charged

3:41pm Monday, June 21, 2004
Gee, wonder if she was carrying more than one... June 19, 2004 Columbus Dispatch An aggravated-menacing charge has been filed against the Franklin County deputy sheriff accused of aiming a gun at a cab driver while off duty last month. Steve Schumaker, an Acme Taxi driver, filed a complaint against Deputy Tressa Brinkley after a May 17 incident that he described as road rage. Yesterday, a...

Another Plain Dealer news story fit for the editorial page

3:09pm Monday, June 21, 2004
June 20, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio concealed-weapon law carries its own smoking gun John Campanelli Plain Dealer Reporter Is that a dozen handguns under your coat or are you just happy to see the loophole in Ohio's concealed-carry law? The state's new law, which allows permit-holding citizens to carry a hidden handgun, doesn't say you can't have more than one. Ohio Attorney General Jim...

Miss-Led Volume II

10:56am Saturday, June 19, 2004
The liberal media and gun ban extremists are really trying to make something of the news that politicians' early predictions about the number of concealed handgun licenses were above actual application rates. Gannett News Service reporter Jim Siegel has published an article entitled "Demand for gun permits low - Sponsor wants to change law" , which has already appeared in most Gannett-owned Ohio...

More proof from gun ban extremists...that bans don't work!

8:09am Saturday, June 19, 2004
We do so enjoy when they help prove our arguments: The Brady bunch's website, Jointogether, recently headlined a story which shouted " Despite Ban, Fake Guns Reemerge in Boston ". The story goes on to say that "sales of fake guns have been banned in Boston, Mass., since 1988, but their presence in the city is increasing." The Brady Campaign is funded by European-born billionaire George Soros, who...

Op-Ed: Mall safety: Take a cue from Israel

7:33am Saturday, June 19, 2004
June 18, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer Your voice: Chad D. Baus The specter of suicide bombers in shopping areas has long been a concern for citizens in Israel. That country has responded by encouraging citizens to be trained in defensive firearms use. Stories like this prove the success of Israel's efforts to curb terror: • March 7, 2003 - The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reports that a young...

Associated Press: Prosecutor to probe release of gun permit holder addresses

6:45pm Friday, June 18, 2004
6/18/2004, 5:26 p.m. ET The Associated Press SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor will investigate whether a sheriff violated Ohio's new concealed weapons law by releasing the addresses of people granted permits to a newspaper that published the information. Bob Beasley, spokesman for the Ohio attorney general's office, said he knew of no similar investigation elsewhere in the state. At issue is what...

OSHP's car carry language contributes to increased potential for firearms theft

8:01am Friday, June 18, 2004
June 16, 2004 I guess you can mark me down as one of the first people for it to happen to. I am hanging my head in shame and embarrassment as I write this. Last Thursday evening when I got home from the store I got out of my van, hit the door lock and went into my apartment. I do not have a visible holster or a locking glove compartment so I use a GunVault Double level lock box to keep my carry...

Kroger makes it official: Ohio signs ordered down

11:01pm Thursday, June 17, 2004
An increasingly aggressive grassroots campaign, which culminated with customers mailing the Kroger Co. receipts showing thousands upon thousands of dollars in sales lost to competitors such as Super WalMart, Meijer and local mom-and-pop groceries (who do NOT post discriminatory signs), has met with resounding success. OFCC announced last week that members and supporters from the Cincinnati-Dayton...

Tale of FOUR OH Cities: Three posted business robbed; Armed Toledo clerk defends

4:57pm Thursday, June 17, 2004
June 17, 2004 WHIOtv.com Man Robs Kroger Store, Assaults Guard DAYTON, Ohio -- Dayton police are searching for a man who allegedly shoplifted from a local grocery store and then assaulted a security officer. The incident happened at the Kroger store on Wayne Avenue on Wednesday. Officers said the man was caught stealing a lighter and then assaulted the guard as he fled the scene. Medics took the...

BSSA tells O'Leary ''county of residence'' means ''county of residence

3:49pm Thursday, June 17, 2004
June 17, 2004 Sidney Daily News Prosecutor to probe release of information Miami County official to investigate why addresses for CCW permit holders issued A special prosecutor will investigate allegations against Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary regarding information on people issued permits in Shelby County to carry concealed weapons. Shelby County Prosecuting Attorney Jim Stevenson...

''No Warnings'' for accidental felonies in Montgomery Co.

12:11pm Thursday, June 17, 2004
June 17, 2004 WHIOtv.com Deputies Arrest Alleged Concealed Carry Law Violator DAYTON, Ohio -- A Dayton man reportedly becomes Montgomery County's first person to violate the concealed carry law after deputies said he took a gun into a court building. Investigators said Douglas Lyons walked into the Common Pleas Courts building in downtown Dayton on Tuesday with the gun. Law enforcement officials...

Special Prosecutor Appointed to Investigate Release of Protected Records

8:30pm Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry Calls on Legislators to Repeal Media Access Loophole June 17, 2004, 12:01 a.m. CLEVELAND - Ohioans For Concealed Carry today announced that it is calling upon the Ohio General Assembly to remove the flawed media access loophole from the new concealed handgun license law. The move is being made following the announcement by Shelby County Prosecutor Jim Stevenson that,...

National Association of Chiefs of Police Strongly Supports CCW

2:36pm Wednesday, June 16, 2004
June 15, 2004 Insight Magazine The National Association of Chiefs of Police recently released its 16th Annual Survey of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs and, according to Vice President and Public Affairs Specialist Jim Kouri, some of the survey findings are surprising and compelling. "The survey had some surprising results on topics including terrorism, gun control, homeland security, drug enforcement...

Letter to the Editor: Gun crusader fires back at critics, editorial on CCW

12:13pm Wednesday, June 16, 2004
June 16, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal Toby Hoover (executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence) has yet again proven her hypocrisy when she stated in a June 10 letter that only a fraction of Ohioans will acquire concealed handgun licenses (she incorrectly referred to them as permits). We've said for years that only a small percentage of Ohioans will acquire these licenses, yet...

''Brother, they don't read signs''

11:16am Wednesday, June 16, 2004
June 15, 2004 Columbus Dispatch 25-year-old man slain in University District A 25-year-old man was killed yesterday after being shot behind the wheel of a sport utility vehicle on a University District street. Mark Warren, 25, had pulled over on E. 8 th Avenue near the N. 5 th Street intersection when a man on foot shot him at about 5:20 p.m. Police said he had stopped the SUV to talk to someone...

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