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Cuyahoga County citizen files suit against Sheriff Gerald McFaul

11:52am Thursday, April 08, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information, contact Attorney Ken Hanson WRIT OF MANDAMUS SOUGHT AGAINST CUYAHOGA COUNTY SHERIFF MCFAUL Suit was filed in the Ohio Supreme Court today (Case No. 04-585) against Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul, seeking to have the Supreme Court order Sheriff McFaul to accept and process applications for concealed handgun licenses during normal business hours...

CLOCK STARTS TODAY: OH Sheriffs' duty under the law to accept applications

by Chad D. Baus
10:07am Thursday, April 08, 2004
Franklin County accepting license applications OFCC Central Ohio Coordinator Gerard Valentino was on hand today to witness the Franklin County Sheriff's office accept the first applications in that county. The office had previously been publicizing a later start date, which would have represented an illegal delay. The applicants did NOT have an appointment, but the office indicated they had an...

While you are waiting in line...some ideas to ponder

10:18pm Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Something to consider while you wait in line at your sheriffs' office for your concealed handgun license. Starting tomorrow, April 8, 2004, you may apply for an Ohio Concealed Handgun License. This has been a long battle. Earlier today, OFCC issued an alert reminding everyone to be patient, professional and understanding of the reasonable problems that sheriffs' have while doing their best to do...

FLASH!! LexisNexis Anderson Publishing displaying wrong Ohio CHL law on website

5:29pm Wednesday, April 07, 2004
UPDATE: LexisNexis Anderson Publishing website corrected EXCLUSIVE: MUST CREDIT www.OhioCCW.org Ohioans For Concealed Carry has discovered that LexisNexis Anderson Publishing, the nation's primary publisher of "legal treatises, professional journals, law school textbooks, criminal justice publications, and legal forms", has an incorrect version of Ohio's new concealed handgun license law on it's...

Ohio's media outlets coverage of concealed carry hits fever-pitch

1:47pm Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Ohio's media outlets are continuing to provide extensive coverage of the pending implementation of Ohio's new concealed carry reform law. We wish we had time to evaluate and comment on potential inaccuracies in each one, but it's just coming too fast. As always, read with a watchful eye, and keep in mind the credibility of the source! Athens Messenger: Concealed-carry licensees limited to certain...

More headlines like these to follow if Ohio Newspaper Assoc. gets its way

5:37pm Tuesday, April 06, 2004
April 3, 2004 Toledo Blade Jerusalem Township gun thefts prompt request for information The Lucas County Sheriff's Department is looking for tips on a burglary at a Jerusalem Township residence in which 15 firearms were taken. The burglars forced their way into the house in the 1200 block of Lyon Road between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. March 22. The guns, worth more than $4,700, were taken from the...

Terrorists on buses and in malls: Ohio CHL important to Homeland Security

2:08pm Tuesday, April 06, 2004
In recent days and weeks, the United States has seen increased signs that terrorists may attempt to attack American shopping malls or transit systems such as buses or trains. The citizens of Israel have faces such threats in their every-day lives for years, and that government has responded by encouraging law-abiding citizens to go armed. Meanwhile, taxpayer-funded bureaucrats at bus services in...

Fear of the unknown fuels business ban decisions

1:16pm Tuesday, April 06, 2004
The Akron Beacon Journal has published an op-ed which highlights once again what we've told you before: Anti-gun extremists are the true sufferers of paranoia . Appropriately entitled "Concealed guns bring fears to light" , the Beacon Journal op-ed starts out bad, and gets worse from there: You're a cop. You pull a car over for a burned-out taillight. You approach the driver's door. The window is...

Kroger shooting highlights folly of gun bans

10:38am Tuesday, April 06, 2004
During the open carry 'Defense' Walks, Kroger corporate management informed inquirers that the company was enforcing its firearms ban under a very liberal interpretation of Ohio law regarding firearms prohibitions where liquor is being dispensed (served). When it was explained that this prohibition is only applicable to establishments which SERVE liquor by the drink, Kroger Customer Service...

OFCC to Ohio businesses: "[We] will obey your sign, but it will cost you money"

10:44pm Sunday, April 04, 2004
OFCC warned supporters about the next battleground in the concealed carry fight just hours after HB12 was signed into law. In Gun ban extremists' expected ''Business Blitz'' begins , we noted that Ohio's liberal media outlets were all-too willing to help "share the gospel" of business bans. But as April 8 draws near, Ohio's media is placing a new, increasingly objective eye on this issue. Click...

Section 9 violators starting to get the message

9:21pm Sunday, April 04, 2004
From the moment the first reports of counties or municipalities passing concealed carry bans on public property broke, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been informing our website readers that these laws were a violation of Section 9 of House Bill 12. Last week, OFCC acted to put the violators on notice . We are now pleased to report the first signs that city officials beginning to follow their...

HIPAA-proof: Attorney General confirms legality of mental health check rules

9:05pm Sunday, April 04, 2004
In the past few weeks, opponents of Ohio's new concealed handgun licensure law have been attempting to claim that a year-old Federal privacy law governing medical records (HIPAA) made it impossible to complete the background checks prescribed in House Bill 12 for CHL applicants. We told you weeks ago , and now the Ohio Attorney General has now confirmed it: they've been making much ado about...

New reality for nay-sayers: Their predictions will not come to pass; ours will

8:38pm Sunday, April 04, 2004
Ohio's news media have begun to struggle with reality: the general public is about to learn what proponents of this legislation have long known. Issuing concealed handgun licenses (CHL's) is not going to change daily living in Ohio. There will be no shoot-outs at fender-benders, or normal domestic arguments turned homicide. What is the anti-gun media doing to prepare for their readers to learn...

Police departments across state preparing for April 8

8:21pm Sunday, April 04, 2004
We've been giving Ohio's highest law-enforcement body in the land (our 88 county sheriffs) quite a bit of attention of late, but what about the lower, local law enforcement departments? For most, April 8 is being viewed as it should be - just another day on the job. "For so many years we’ve been trained to approach people as if they have a weapon," said Sgt. Kelly Hamilton of the Columbus Police...

So much for ''very little interest'' in concealed carry among Ohioans...

12:22pm Saturday, April 03, 2004
Ohio's media outlets are continuing to provide extensive coverage of the pending implementation of Ohio's new concealed carry reform law. As you read about the many thousands of applicants, keep in mind all the old claims from the gun control lobby that there was very little interest among Ohioans for concealed carry. Click on the "Read More..." link below for a long list of links to Ohio media...

Sheriffs prepare for rush

11:21am Saturday, April 03, 2004
Columbus Dispatch April 2, 2004 Attorney General Jim Petro speculated yesterday that 100,000 Ohioans will apply for permits to carry concealed handguns in the first six months after the new law takes effect Thursday, and that 95 percent will qualify. Petro, saying he could be off by 15 percent either way, made his guess at a news conference attended by six county sheriffs among the 88 assigned to...

100,000 expected to seek [licenses]

11:17am Saturday, April 03, 2004
Sheriffs brace for gun applicants Dayton Daily News April 2, 2004 COLUMBUS | As many as 100,000 Ohioans are expected to apply for licenses to carry concealed handguns in the six months after the state's concealed-carry law takes effect next Thursday, Attorney General Jim Petro said. Petro on Thursday said he expects 95 percent of those who apply to qualify. His office prepared the pamphlet...

BSSA President: ''ALL 88 SHERIFFS WILL ACCEPT APPLICATIONS APRIL 8''

11:15pm Friday, April 02, 2004
Over the past two weeks, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been working tirelessly with the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association to investigate reports of sheriffs telling reporters and constituents that they would not be accepting applications on April 8. On Monday, March 29, amidst widespread reports of potential delays, OFCC publicized a statement by Buckeye State Sheriff's Association (BSSA)...

Ohio Attorney General's office emails constituents re: reported sheriffs' delays

12:53pm Thursday, April 01, 2004
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 Mark Gribben Director of Constituent Services Office of Attorney General Jim Petro Thank you for your message on the difficulty you are having with the County Sheriffs. Unfortunately, our office doesn't have the legal authority to compel the sheriffs to make the applications process easy, although we have taken all possible steps to make it as simple as possible for them. The...

DDN prints reponses to ''Mad'' Mary McCarty

12:41pm Thursday, April 01, 2004
Despite the thousands of federal and state gun control laws on the books, Charles McCoy still walked around carrying a concealed gun, shooting willy-nilly at anything that moved, immortalizing himself as the Ohio sniper suspect. Whether or not he could have gotten a concealed carry license matters none. The Ohio sniper didn't wait until April 8 to begin his sickening crime spree, and yet Dayton...

Deadly in Dayton: Gun control laws' failure displayed

11:37am Thursday, April 01, 2004
After reading these headlines from TWO DAYS in the Dayton Daily News, it appears the next Senate President, Jeff Jacobson, calls a very dangerous place home. We hope Sen. Jacobson is ready to lead the charge on making corrections to Ohio's concealed carry reform law, which was severely corrupted at the hand of Governor Taft, and a few term-limited Senators. He is expected to take the position...

Dayton VA Hospital shooting proves folly of gun prohibitions

10:02am Thursday, April 01, 2004
Federal law prohibits firearms inside federal buildings. State law prohibits this felon from being in possession of a firearm. Ohio's concealed handguns law isn't yet in effect. And yet this madman was able to victimize this nurse, before being stopped by someone with a gun (in this case, a hospital guard). This should be a lesson to the Ohio Hospital Association, which is encouraging hospitals...

Taft supports not ''stigmatizing'' ex-cons; insisted on stigmatizing CHL-holders

6:52am Thursday, April 01, 2004
Sickening. Gov. Bob Taft has no problem with making it harder for the public to obtain information on persons who have broken the laws he is sworn to protect. Yet in a last-ditch attempt to kill HB12 last November, he began insisting that law-abiding citizens who obtain concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) have their privacy violated, and their identities available to the public. No mention of a...

AGAIN: Dayton man shot while taking advice of Ohio Highway Patrol

4:05pm Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Dayton authorities still haven't found Tony Gordon's killer . And despite yet another attempt by the victim to follow the Ohio Highway Patrol's advice to "just drive away" when attacked, another Dayton man has been seriously injured in a carjacking strikingly similar to Gordon's. April 8 cannot come soon enough. For a look at how obstruction by the OHP and Gov. Taft has cost Ohio's defenseless...

Councilperson responds to letter to editor re: Section 9 violation

3:06pm Wednesday, March 31, 2004
March 27, 2004 New Philadelphia Times Reporter To the Editor: Recent headlines in The Times-Reporter have me very alarmed that the cities of New Philadelphia and Dover are trying to pass legislation restricting where Concealed Carry permit holders can carry their weapons. I do not live in either city, but I do often go to parks and other places in their cities. I spend a lot of money in these two...

BSSA: Pieces in place; 88 county sheriffs MUST take applications Apr. 8

1:57pm Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Reports of a few sheriffs telling reporters and constituents that they would not be accepting applications on April 8 have been filtering in for weeks. As we indicated on March 25 , OFCC PAC has been on the case, working with the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association to investigate these reports, and we are making progress. Only the Ohio Attorney General had legal authority to delay implementation...

Ignoring his ''duty under the law'': Cuyahoga sheriff not ready to process apps

10:20am Wednesday, March 31, 2004
March 29, 2004 Crain's Cleveland Business If you plan to get a license to carry a concealed weapon, don't go to Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul's office. At least not right away. Although the new Ohio law goes into effect April 8, Pat Kresty, chief of staff for Sheriff McFaul, said the office won't be ready to process licenses until sometime in May. "We're going to be giving out licenses to...

Big (dangerous) Boy: Frisch's Inc. reaffirms plans to post discriminatory signs

4:57pm Tuesday, March 30, 2004
UPDATE: Frisch's Inc. signs coming down ! Ohioans For Concealed Carry first brought word of a new interstate policy discriminating against CHL-holders at Frisch's Inc. on March 1. This particular ban is one of the most baffling we've seen, since Frisch's Inc. has allowed patrons of Golden Corral, Frisch's and Big Boy in states such as Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee to bear arms for self-...

Thousands and thousands in Ohio await conceal-carry licenses

3:48pm Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Ohio's media outlets are ramping up on coverage of the impending implementation of Ohio's new concealed carry reform law. Click on the "Read More..." link below for a long list of links to Ohio media coverage. Channelcincinnati.com (Ch. 5 WLWT): Applications Available Next Week Applications will become available April 8, and if the rolls of those signed up to take classes are any indication, the...

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