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Ken Blackwell announced as keynote speaker for OFCC's Party in the Park

11:05am Wednesday, June 16, 2004
We are pleased to announce that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell will serve as keynote speaker at the first annual Ohioans For Concealed Carry Party in the Park on September 4. Mr. Blackwell is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and of Ohio's constitutional right to bear arms for defense and security. Please make plans to attend this Labor Day weekend event at a Central Ohio park to...

New online poll tests Shelby Co. Sheriff's assertions about ''vague'' law

2:33pm Tuesday, June 15, 2004
A new survey has been added to the OFCC PAC website, testing Shelby Co. Sheriff Kevin O'Leary's assertion that the words county of residence in Ohio Revised Code are "convoluted, vague, and open to interpretation, and could be construed specifically as the name of the county or the full address at which the permit holder resides inside the county." Is Shelby County Prosecuting Attorney Jim...

Lorain County Swamped By Cuyahoga County Applicants

9:56am Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Temporary hours adopted as deputies try to catch up Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that due to an overwhelming amount of applications received, the Lorain County Sheriff's Office is being forced to temporarily reduce the number of days per week they will be accepting applications for concealed handgun licenses. Captain Drozdowski stated in a phone conversation that they have assigned...

Nearly 350 seek guns in Portage Co.

9:45am Tuesday, June 15, 2004
June 13, 2004 (Portage Co.) Daily Record Courier Nearly 350 people have applied in Portage County for permits to carry concealed weapons since a new law allowing concealed carry in Ohio took effect on April 8. Portage County Sheriff Duane Kaley said that as of June 9, 348 applications had been recieved by his office seeking the permits. Of those, at least 174 were approved and have been issued...

Editorial: New gun law has some kinks

9:26am Tuesday, June 15, 2004
June 12, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder The letter of the law often flies in the face of what seems reasonable. Harold Newell Jr. of Zanesville found that out recently when he was denied a concealed-carry gun permit. Newell is now 56 years old. But 38 years ago, as a teenager, he and four other youths stole five cases of beer from an unlocked cooler at a convenience store in Zanesville. He was...

Al Qaeda Cell in Ohio? FBI Says Suspect Plotting To Blow Up Columbus Mall

4:27pm Monday, June 14, 2004
FLASHBACK: Terrorists on buses and in malls: Ohio CHL important to Homeland Security June 14, 2004 NBC4Columbus.com COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal authorities said Monday that they have charged a man from Somalia with plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall. According to the FBI, Nuradin M. Abdi, a 32-year-old Somali national, was indicted and charged with conspiracy to provide material...

Tale of Two Signs: Willoughby bank robbed; Middletown store welcomes CHL

3:49pm Monday, June 14, 2004
Following the old adage that a picture says a thousand words, some Ohio businesses are choosing to use pictures say few words to would-be criminals who may target their stores. Consider the message received by all who view this picture of law enforcement agent dusting for fingerprints next to a "no-guns" sign at a Fifth Third bank. The photo appeared on the front page of the Willoughby News...

FirstMerit banks respond to complaints about ''No-guns'' signs

8:39am Monday, June 14, 2004
The following bulk email is being sent to customers who contacted FirstMerit bank about their recent decision to post signs, and about to five subsequent bank robberies in their Ohio locations. From: Karen Rose [ mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 Subject: Re: Why does FirstMerit discriminate? Dear Mr. XXXXXXX, Your e-mail in regard to the recent Concealed Carry Weapon...

Letter to the Editor: Stores should welcome concealed-carry law

8:20am Monday, June 14, 2004
June 13, 2004 Columbus Dispatch I respond to the June 5 letter from Lori A. O’Neill, president of the Greater Cleveland chapter of the Million Mom March ("Store owners who take on gun lobby deserve thanks"). O’Neill fails to mention that the only people who are banned from these businesses are the law-abiding, licensed, trained, screened, fingerprinted and honest concealed-carrying public. Those...

THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK: Posted Mansfield business ''brutally'' robbed

7:02am Sunday, June 13, 2004
Volunteers in Mansfield have told OFCC that all three Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco stores in Mansfield are owned by the same individual, and that "no-guns" signs barring CHL-holders went up just a short time ago. June 11, 2004 Mansfield News Journal ONTARIO -- City police are looking for a suspect they say brutally attacked a clerk at Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco shop a little after 8 p.m...

Sidney Daily News and Shelby Co. Sheriff maintain they committed no crimes

10:37am Saturday, June 12, 2004
June 12, 2004 Sidney Daily News Calls for state and local investigations have followed publication Tuesday in the Sidney Daily News of a list of concealed-carry permit holders as released by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary. The publication of addresses was listed as illegal by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and by Ohioans For Concealed Carry. The former...

Jogger attacked on bikeway; suspect nabbed

8:31am Saturday, June 12, 2004
THIS IS WHY CONCEALED CARRY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY IS PROTECTED. 96% OF RAPISTS DO NOT USE FIREARMS. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO TAKE AWAY THIS WOMAN'S ABILITY TO DEFEND HERSELF??? June 11, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Attacked on a bikeway under a bridge, her cries drowned out by construction noise, the jogger battled her knife-wielding attacker for 20 minutes. "She did fight him back," Dayton...

Concealed weapon ban in parks not enforceable

7:44am Saturday, June 12, 2004
June 12, 2004 Toledo Blade Communities that ban people from carrying concealed weapons in parks despite a new state law have misfired, according to state officials. Such local policies conflict with the state's concealed-carry law and are not valid. Their enforcement could be challenged in the courts, said Kim Norris a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro. "If you are a licensed...

A few Sheriffs' difficult licensing procedures deterring applicants

7:18am Saturday, June 12, 2004
June 10, 2004 StateNews.org Not as many Ohioans as expected are applying for permits to carry concealed weapons. That is sparking renewed debate about the law legislators passed last year to legalize hidden guns. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. Click here to hear the story via RealAudio streaming. Commentary: Before the law was implemented, Ohioans For Concealed Carry projected that...

Lorain Morning Journal editors come unglued

7:25am Friday, June 11, 2004
One day after it published a very fair and balanced story on the issue of businesses asking CHL-holders to stay away , the biased Lorain Morning Journal editors went on a tear, apparently to try and make up for their losses. On the June 10 editorial page, the paper accused Ohioans For Concealed Carry of "bullying" businesses, and published two letters to the editor from gun ban extremists. It is...

OH Attorney General's office: ''Local ordinances [banning CCW] are NOT VALID''

10:04pm Thursday, June 10, 2004
Had Ohio citizens acted as these city officials are, they would have begun to carry concealed firearms when HB12, HB274, or even earlier bills were introduced, instead of waiting until they were passed into law. This behavior is disgraceful. June 10, 2004 Associated Press Gun Ban in Parks May Be Unconstitutional Several Ohio communities have banned people from carrying hidden weapons in their...

GUN RIGHTS GROUP WANTS INVESTIGATION, PROSECUTION IN RELEASE OF OHIO CCW INFO

3:03pm Thursday, June 10, 2004
NEWS RELEASE June 10, 2004 The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today called upon Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro to investigate the release of the home addresses of 87 concealed pistol licensees by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary, to the Sidney, Ohio Daily News, which subsequently published that information in its June 8 edition. "Release of this information is...

'No Guns' Signs Come Down in Ohio

10:05am Thursday, June 10, 2004
By Susan Jones, Morning Editor CNSNews.com June 10, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - Signs reading "no guns allowed" are coming down in some Ohio stores and restaurants. Ohioans for Concealed Carry said it is pleased to announce that two national chains -- Southwest Ohio Kroger stores and Perkins Family Restaurants -- have "begun removing discriminatory signs banning concealed handgun license-holders from...

Ronald Reagan: Armed Citizen

9:23am Thursday, June 10, 2004
SHAMEFUL: The Brady Campaign, and NBC`s Katie Couric, Try to Re-write (Reagan) History Reagan Was Hero To Iowa Woman Nursing Student Rescued From Mugger By Reagan June 7, 2004 TheIowa Channel.com Former President Ronald Reagan is known as the "Great Communicator," but one Iowa woman will always know him as her hero. Melba King was a 22-year-old nursing student in Des Moines in 1933. She was...

Shelby Co. Sheriff releases CHL-holders' protected, private information to media

2:13pm Wednesday, June 09, 2004
June 8, 2004 Sidney Daily News Sheriff's Office issues 87 concealed-carry permits Eighty-seven concealed carry permits have been issued to date by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary, according to a list procured from his office. Permits may be issued to any resident of Shelby or adjoining counties who pass the requirement for a permit. Those requirements include at least 12 hours of training,...

OFCC announces major progress in fight to educate business owners

12:20pm Wednesday, June 09, 2004
SIGNS COME DOWN in Southwest Ohio Kroger stores, Perkins Family Restaurants state-wide Ohioans For Concealed carry is pleased to announce that two major national chains have begun removing discriminatory signs banning concealed handgun license-holders from their stores this week. On Monday June 7, the Task Force received word that Perkins Family Restaurants had ordered all Ohio "No guns" signs to...

Concealed carry supporters deal businesses resistance

7:53am Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Please note: One of the businesses quoted in this story, Fligner's Supermarket, contacted OFCC's Jim Irvine after completing his interview with this reporter. After a short, informative conversation, Mr. Fligner, a gun owner himself, removed his signs. It is once again safe to shop at Fligner's. June 9, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal LORAIN -- Supporters of Ohio's new law that allows for the...

OFCC's battle against Section 9 violators gains momentum

7:42am Wednesday, June 09, 2004
June 9, 2004 Dayton Daily News Arcanum gun ban challenged State law says OK, village says no The village of Arcanum has banned concealed handguns from its village land and parks, despite a new state law that allows a person with the proper license to carry a gun. The Ohio attorney general's staff questions the ordinance, which is among the first of its kind in the state. At the heart of the...

''First bank robbery this year'' at posted Willoughby Fifth Third branch

3:10pm Tuesday, June 08, 2004
June 8, 2004 Willoughby News Herald Police, FBI trying to determine if crime is connected to others in area The FBI is offering reward money for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of a man who robbed a downtown Willoughby bank Monday afternoon. A black man wearing a navy blue hooded exercise suit walked into Fifth Third Bank at Mentor Avenue and Erie Street at 1:15 p.m. and demanded...

SIGNS COME DOWN: Perkins Family Restaurants cites good experience in PA

11:51pm Monday, June 07, 2004
Yet another Ohio-based business has made the corporate decision to remove discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders from their restaurants. Like Frisch's, MicroCenter, Home Depot and Giant Eagle (to name a few), Perkins Family Restaurants has responded to customers' questions about why these businesses were posting signs in Ohio, reminding them that they have been doing business in CCW states for...

Fremont News Messenger applauds passage of illegal ordinance

7:57pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 Fremont News Messenger Clyde's ban on guns in parks is right on target Clyde City Council members as the people's representatives in a charter-form of government took advantage of an opportunity to protect residents -- one that most other cities might not have at this stage. Clyde Council and the city's administration boldly decided to ban concealed weapons in the city's parks...

CNN Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Extension of Clinton Gun Ban

1:06pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 WASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "A CNN internet poll ongoing for about a month shows there is growing opposition to proposals to extend the 1994 Clinton era ban on the manufacture and importation of certain semiautomatic firearms," John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), stated here today. CNN posed...

Gun Control Failure: British Residents Trained to Treat Gunshot Wounds

12:59pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 1, 2004 British Broadcasting Corp. Red Cross officials are providing first-aid training to British residents living in high gun-crime areas so that they can provide basic first aid at the scenes of shootings, the BBC reported June 1. Training has begun in parts of Manchester, including Moss Side and Hulme. According to Red Cross officials, the goal is to save lives by providing residents...

Ohio Parole Board sets serial rapist on the prowl

12:42pm Monday, June 07, 2004
June 04, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer What does the Ohio Parole Board have against the state's elderly women? As a recent article points out (" Convicted rapist will be paroled, must register ," May 28), a parole board has decided to release a man with a criminal record going back 40 years, including convictions for attempted rape as well as sexual assaults of women aged 72 and 84. In fact, he...

Man in Wheelchair Robbed

9:18am Monday, June 07, 2004
June 4, 2004 Ohio News Network A disabled man was thrown from his wheelchair and robbed for his disability check overnight in the West End. The neighborhood says it's becoming a trend: Criminals on the prowl at the start of each month when they know welfare, disability, and other checks are issued. Criminals who do this are preying on the weak. Early Wednesday morning in the West End that was...

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