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Armed citizen apprehends rapist after he victimizes 84-year old woman

12:23pm Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Gun ban extremists want us to believe that crimes are never thwarted; that the presence of firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens will make bad situations worse; that vigilante justice will be meeted out if a criminal is ever apprehended by an armed citizen in an emotionally charged situation. Why should their lies continue to be put in print or taken into account? April 27, 2004 WKYC.com...

Kmart security wrestles thief who carried gun in store

12:00pm Wednesday, April 28, 2004
This guy didn't need a concealed handgun license (CHL) to carry out his crimes, and would have ignored a sign banning him from this store, just as he ignored all the laws he broke. April 27, 2004 Dayton Daily News Trotwood police shoot theft suspect Ignored orders to drop gun, officials say TROTWOOD | Trotwood police shot and wounded a shoplifting suspect Monday in the parking lot of Target at...

Portage couple among region's first to secure concealed-carry permits

7:53am Wednesday, April 28, 2004
April 28, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer At 72, stroke victim Ben Doepel, a well-known outdoorsman, figures he needs the protection of a gun. He and his wife once were frightened by three suspicious men in a parking lot as she helped him climb out of his wheelchair. "I never felt so helpless in my life," said Doepel, former president of the Goodyear Hunting and Fishing Club. "I sure don't want to...

AP: State adopts language on incompetence

10:16pm Tuesday, April 27, 2004
An impressive display of media bias: Associated Press bothers only to call an authoritarian gun banner for comment on new rules implemented for Ohio's concealed handgun license law... April 27, 2004 Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state on Monday adopted instructions that courts must follow in reporting cases of involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illnesses to ensure they...

Ohio Attorney General's office answers Sen. Randy Gardner on Section 9 violators

by Chad D. Baus
5:44pm Tuesday, April 27, 2004
According to Senator Randy Gardner's office, the Ohio Attorney General's office has taken a firm position when it comes to Section 9 violators. In an email response to CCW-advocate Bruce Beatty, who is waging a fight against multiple Section 9 violations by the Toledo Mayor and City Law Director, Sen. Gardner's office said the following: "The AG's office is under the belief that public busses are...

First Ohio CHL-holder detainment after ''man-with-a-gun'' call

11:16pm Monday, April 26, 2004
One of the most egregious problems with the law created by Amended Substitute House Bill 12 is the compromise language on carrying in a motor vehicle. In order to appease the Ohio State Highway Patrol bureaucrats, who seem to have a very unhealthy fear of the people they are paid "to serve and protect", the Ohio Senate inserted language which makes carrying a firearm for self-defense in a motor...

Say it Ain't So! Lima News, longtime proponent of CCW, posts No-Guns signs

5:10pm Monday, April 26, 2004
A quick search of the words "Lima News" on this website's search engine will reveal that the Lima News has been one of the few Ohio media outlets with an editorial board that takes a friendly outlook on your personal right to self-defense. So imagine our surprise when we began receiving emails from concerned customers, reporting that they had seen "No-CCW" signs on the front door of the very same...

Columbus SWAT waits outside during robbery/ shooting

3:43pm Monday, April 26, 2004
This website has often shared stories which make the point how police officers are typically unable to prevent violent crimes, and are instead often relegated to showing up later for mop-up duty. But in this case, after receiving a tip, the Columbus SWAT team watched as two armed, masked robbers entered this restaurant (a MANDATED victim zone because they serve alcohol - not that the criminals...

Lucas County Sheriff's office moves to NO appointments

3:31pm Monday, April 26, 2004
In what is a very positive sign, Lucas Co. Sheriff James A. Telb's office has moved to taking CHL applications without appointments. This is the first of the offices to scrap temporary appointments after the initial surge of applicants. Telb's office tells OFCC PAC that applicants who had previously been forced to schedule appointments into June (!!) do NOT have to wait to submit their...

Heads in the sand: Gun ban extremists pretend this doesn't happen

2:22pm Monday, April 26, 2004
To hear the gun ban extremists tell it, these things don't happen (especially not in small towns), and those who make preparations to defend themselves in case they do, are "buying into a culture of fear." Concealed handgun licenses are only now starting to be issued in the counties where these crimes occurred. Of course, the criminals that perpetrated them didn't worry about getting licenses...

Source: Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police tells off-duty cops to observe bans

11:57am Monday, April 26, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) may be interpreting the new Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) law to mean that off-duty police officers may not carry in businesses which have posted discriminatory signs banning concealed carry. Although the OACP position is flawed (click on the "Read More..." link below for commentary by a Cleveland...

Blade reporter takes CHL class: impressed with thoroughness

11:12am Monday, April 26, 2004
Another reporter shops a concealed-carry class, another excellent story on the professionalism and thoroughness of Ohio CCW training. April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Pulling trigger: a chilling moment of truth "Classes miss no targets in training applicant to qualify to obtain a concealed weapons permit" Sobering. Reality check. Practice! I wrote those words in capital letters among many pages of...

Widow had good reason to apply for [carry license]

8:27am Sunday, April 25, 2004
For the most intelligent of citizens, it does not take being made a victim yourself to know it can happen to you. Mr. & Mrs. Krause took precautions, and it saved their lives in 1998. Read this article, and consider buying yourself some "self-defense insurance." April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Mary Lou Krause, a 73-year-old widow who lives in Swanton Township, is among recent graduates of...

''Retail Rapist'' sought in greater Cincinnati

8:05am Sunday, April 25, 2004
Just what are businesses that choose to deny their employees and customers their right to self-defense trying to protect them from? Note that this violent criminal ignored the 150-year-old concealed carry ban while commiting his horrible acts. Of course, his defenseless victims were dutifully obeying the law. April 23, 2004 Cincinnati Post Search is on for rapist Piercing blue eyes. Disarming...

OFCC obtains Div. of Liquor Control letter to Ohio Class D licensees

2:16pm Saturday, April 24, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry & the OFCC PAC have confirmed our suspicions that a large number of the retailers currently listed on the "Do Not Patronize While Armed list" are likely operating under the misunderstanding that they are required to post signs barring CHL-holders from their stores. The following Ohio Division of Liquor Control letter has been sent to all Class D liquor permit-...

Signs come down at former hypocritical Business Banners

12:47pm Saturday, April 24, 2004
Three more stores from the list of "business ban hypocrites" have removed their discriminatory signs. They originally earned their place on this list by attempting to ban CHL-holders from their Ohio stores, while having a long history of NOT doing the same to CHL-holders in other states. Original Mattress Factory in Fairfield has removed signs ordering customers who were CHL-holders to shop...

Northwest Ohio Legislators To Host Concealed Carry Forums

3:29pm Friday, April 23, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE State Representative Steve Buehrer (R-Delta) announced today that he and State Senator Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon) will host a series of educational forums on Ohio’s new concealed carry law. The educational forums will be held April 29th in Defiance, May 5th in Findlay and May 6th in Ottawa. All meetings will start at 7 p.m. “The goal of these forums is to educate the public...

Letter to the Editor: Criminals have always had concealed carry

4:09pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
April 21, 2004 Newark Advocate All of this talk about concealed carry and businesses posting "no firearms" signs is foolishness if you use common sense. Unless these places of business have had metal detectors at their entry, there have been illegal concealed carries in their establishments unknown for years. Criminals have always had concealed carry. Carl W. Griffith Heath

Section 9 Op-Ed: Concealed guns could be trouble in city parks

4:05pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
The following editorial is being published in several Gannett News Service papers : April 21, 2004 Among the uncertainties surrounding the state's new concealed carry law is whether cities and other political subdivisions can prohibit weapons in public parks. City officials across the state say they would like to prohibit firearms in public areas for as far as the law will allow. "It's just...

Retired woman gets county's first license to carry a concealed gun

1:20pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
The Clark Co. Sheriff is one of many that have begun issuing licenses to qualified applicants. Note to the few hold-out Sheriffs refusing to perform their duty under the law - Sheriff Kelley and the many others sheriffs who are issuing CCW permits in accordance with the law are displaying the professionalism that you lack. Note to the gun ban lobby - it's not just middle-aged white males who...

Police: Woman Raped In Downtown Parking Garage

12:36pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
April 22, 2004 NewsNet5.com (Cleveland) CLEVELAND -- Security has been increased in the parking lot of a downtown building after a woman was reportedly sexually assaulted Tuesday evening in the parking garage of her office building, reported NewsChannel5. Huntington Building officials said they have informed all tenants about the incident and have increased security staff, who will escort female...

AGAIN: Franklin Co. Sheriff needs help with the definition of ''OR''

2:58pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
First in Athens Co., and now in Franklin Co., two of Ohio's sheriffs seem to being having trouble with the definition of the word "or"... April 21, 2004 The (Ohio State University) Lantern Suits file in concerning new carry law By Trevor Knoblich Three lawsuits related to the new concealed carry law were filed at the Ohio Supreme Court in the law's first two days of existence. One lawsuit, filed...

Record number of Ohio convicts released in 2003

1:01pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
According to the Columbus Dispatch article RELEASE Re-entry REHABILITATION , a record 27,721 inmates — 90 percent of them men — released from Ohio prisons last year. The number was triggered by an overhaul of criminal-sentencing laws, more-lenient parole policies and increased diversions to community corrections programs. More than 9,100 former inmates — one out of three released last year — are...

Letter to the Editor: Legal license-holders not danger in parks

12:26pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
April 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch I was disturbed to hear Mayor Michael B. Coleman rail against the new concealed-carry legislation (Dispatch article, April 9). This piece of legislation has had more attention from Columbus residents and the local media than any other news item except the war in Iraq, and he just now found out about it? If he wants to protect the people who use the parks, he...

Mother: restraining order, cameras & pepper spray didn't save my daughter

12:01pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
April 21, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer Mother relives fatal shooting of daughter HAMILTON - Janie Turley took extraordinary steps to protect her daughter from an ex-boyfriend. Turley let her daughter move in with her; they shared a small one-bedroom apartment. She installed a surveillance camera in the building's hallway and watched parking-lot arrivals from a monitor in her living room. align="right...

Gun Grabbers Posting Signs Without Permission

10:19am Wednesday, April 21, 2004
In recent days, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been receiving a number of reports of subversive activities by gun ban extremists. Most of the reports involve a group calling itself the "Concealed Carry Law Task Force" which has been visiting stores in northeast Ohio, and "ordering" them to post "no-guns" signs, which they provide at no charge. In other cases, stores are finding out they're "...

DDN headline belongs with a different story

7:54am Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Reporters write the stories, but it's often news editors that write the headlines. After reading this DDN story about businesses and concealed carry, the headline reads like wishful thinking. Gun-toters to face barred doors throughout Valley Businesses post signs on weapons By Jason Roberson April 21, 2004 Dayton Daily News You can carry a gun while shopping at a Meijer or Wal-Mart supercenter,...

Toledo Mayor Jack Ford will help chair DNC rules committee

4:12pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Given how little Mayor Ford seems to care about the rule of law in Toledo, we're forced to wonder just what sort of advocate he'll be for following the rules at the DNC. Then again, maybe he'll fit right in... April 20, 2004 Toledo Blade Toledo Mayor Jack Ford has been named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee's rules committee for the party's convention this summer in Boston. He...

Food for thought: Consider insurance as protection, too

3:38pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004
As this Columbus Dispatch story points out, although insurance isn’t required in the law (and should never be), it’s something to consider as a personal choice. It’ll cost Ohioans $45 to apply for a concealed-handgun permit, but those looking to take advantage of the new state law could find themselves shelling out hundreds more for extra insurance coverage. Standard policies don’t cover many of...

Letters to Toby...

2:43pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004
In an op-ed published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch and Toledo Blade, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence director Toby Hoover took issue with a Toledo professor who stated that "licensees are a good deal more law-abiding than the norm, and they are well-socialized personalities who can rationally plan and conduct their own lives and actions." Hoover's retort: "Some must be...

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