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Dayton Daily News: Gun lobby shows clout in Ohio

by Chad D. Baus
1:01pm Saturday, February 21, 2004
Editor's Note: The DDN contacted the author in preparation for this story, which reveals that pro-concealed carry letters, calls, faxes and emails outpaced those sent by anti-gunners by more than 11 to 1 since Taft took office in 1999. Following the DDN story, is documentation of the wealth of information we provided the DDN on the history of OFCC's grassroots fight, but which Bischoff was not...

What Business Owners Need to Know About the Ohio Concealed Handgun Law

2:42pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has announced the launch of a new, web-based educational guide for business owners, aimed at answering their questions about implementation of the new concealed handgun license (CHL) law. After failing to scare business lobbyists into the fight in 2003, and after loosing in the legislative arena just weeks ago, gun ban lobbyists are now hoping to convince business...

Ohio's working families deserve right to self-defense to and from jobs

2:04pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Man shot, injured on way to West End job February 19, 2004 Cincinnati Post A builder on his way to work in the West End today was shot as he drove onto his construction site this morning. Police said the man, Alan Stenger, was stopped by a pedestrian as he was driving a white Dodge Ram pickup into the Reece Campbell construction site at Linn Street and Derrick Turnbow Avenue, at 8:10 a.m. The two...

Right to self-defense coming too late for some domestic violence victims

12:53pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Woman shot in front of son, 10 February 20, 2004 Cincinnati Post HIGHLAND HEIGHTS -- At sunrise Wednesday, with three blasts from a high-caliber rifle, the troubled lives and marriage of Charles and Cloay Swope came crashing down right before the horrified eyes of their 10-year-old son. So unreal, it seemed to neighbors, spotting Cloay's lifeless body collapsed in a pool of blood on the front...

Toledo Library board will post signs banning guns

11:09am Friday, February 20, 2004
February 20, 2004 Toledo Blade Pistol-packing library patrons will have to leave their guns in their cars. The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Board of Trustees voted yesterday to post signs outside the system’s libraries announcing that no firearms can be taken inside its buildings in response to the state’s concealed carry law, which takes effect in April. Library Director Clyde Scoles said...

OFCC announces establishment of Ohio Media Monitoring Task Force

4:21pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
CLEVELAND, February 19, 2004 – Ohioans For Concealed Carry, Ohio’s largest grassroots concealed carry rights organization, has announced the formation of the OFCC Media Monitoring Task Force ( [email protected] ). The organization, comprised totally of grassroots volunteers from across the state, will monitor Ohio's media outlets, documenting any instances of abuse of the public records...

Nugent in Oxford tonight; Rocker praises Open Carry 'Defense' Walkers

12:37pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
OFCC's Larry Moore had the opportunity to interview Ted Nugent for a story to promote his appearance at Miami University at Oxford tonight. In addition, Larry Moore’s upcoming February 27 column Moore Outdoors will be featuring Ted Nugent. "Bring your friends to Miami University," Nugent said. "We need to get the word out there. The truth is a beautiful thing. It is contagious. Everyone has an...

Op-Ed: Waiting for gun permit can be deadly

12:23pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
February 15, 2004 (New Hampshire) Union Leader By BERNADETTE MALONE NEVER DID I expect to wind up living alone, in a new area, with a violent acquaintance threatening me because of some perceived offense. Never did I expect to ever need to carry my handgun to and from work in case that man tracked me down and physically threatened me. So naturally, I didn’t have the paperwork I needed to defend...

Toledo's rage against self-defense takes a TARTA bus ride

11:33am Thursday, February 19, 2004
by Chad D. Baus The City of Toledo has quite a history of discrimination against Second Amendment rights, especially when lower income residents try to exercise their rights. According to the Toledo Blade, Toledo's controversial ban on inexpensive firearms (which was renewed in 2002 after a tie-breaking vote from Mayor Jack Ford ), has been used for just one conviction since 2000 . The ban has...

Youngstown: Some hail, others fear concealed-carry law

5:33pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004
One local gun shop has had a large increase in business in recent weeks February 18, 2004 Youngstown Vindicator Diane Demetrios remembers well the intruder who once entered her Boardman candy shop and robbed a teenage worker at knife-point. Standing in her business, where shiny, decorative hearts dangle over a tempting array of treats, Demetrios cited the episode in explaining why she backs the...

Op-Ed: Ohio sniper and disarmed populace

2:25pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004
February 18, 2004 Joseph Farah WorldNetDaily.com The case of the Ohio sniper is a perfect illustration of the dangers of disarming the public – and leaving crime-prevention and deterrence to the government. The sniper has been shooting at people and cars since November of last year. He is linked to at least 24 shootings, including one murder. Last weekend, he took a potshot at a Chevrolet...

Reminder: Ted Nugent at Ohio University Thursday!

5:31pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Press Release - February 12, 2004 Oxford, OH - Today, the Miami University College Republicans announced that the keynote speaker for the annual club sponsored Conservative Week will be Second Amendment activist and author of the New York Times Bestseller God, Guns, and Rock-n-Roll , Ted Nugent. Conservative Week is an annual celebration of conservative thought at Miami University sponsored by...

Extremists raging against self-defense. But will they post at their own homes?

5:15pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
We've been warning for months that the gun ban extremists' would resort to even more irrational scare tactics (mainly targeted at businesses) than already known for, after Ohio legislature finally passed a concealed carry law. On August 29, 2003, we published a story about how a man in Minnesota was actually working to put people in a great deal of danger, by offering "Carries No Gun" t-shirts...

AP: Glitch identifies Amazon reviewers

1:04pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
February 14, 2004 The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Many sign their names. Many don't. They're the book reviewers on Amazon.com who use such words as "masterful," "page-turner" and "tear-jerker." But the ones who sign their critiques only as "a reader from (fill in the city)" lost their anonymity this week when their identities were revealed on Amazon.com's Canadian Web site. Among those named...

Port Clinton rapist prompts ''Safety Awareness Rally''

9:45pm Monday, February 16, 2004
February 16, 2004 Port Clinton News Herald (click for the full story) PORT CLINTON -- Many women across the city are worried and fearful of the unidentified Port Clinton rapist, who has broken into homes and attacked victims twice over the past month. In response, organizers are planning a "Safety Awareness Rally" Tuesday night with local law enforcement officials to try to empower the public...

Ohio gun banners advocating prank ''man-with-a-gun'' calls

4:45pm Monday, February 16, 2004
As if Ohio law enforcement doesn't have enough to do, Toby Hoover's Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence is now advocating a course of action that will waste even more of cops' precious time, and perhaps endanger CHL-holders: In a February 13, 2004 OCAGV media release , Hoover states as follows: "If you see someone with a gun, continue to assume their activity is suspicious. There is no way for...

Letter to the Editor: Negative trends will hurt Ohio

3:56pm Monday, February 16, 2004
February 15, 2004 Dayton Daily News SOMETIMES I DESPAIR OF OHIO. First, concealed weapons. Soon anyone in public places — supermarket, mall or movie, unless specifically barred — can be packing heat. And this is supposed to make me feel safe? True, it will still be against the law to actually shoot me, but perfectly OK to carry the means to do so. I am no longer listening to the claim that a "law...

A few anti-self-defense cops still claim sky will fall April 8

8:10am Monday, February 16, 2004
Legislators finally realized the claims of opponents were not consistent with the experience in 44 other states who had passed similar legislation, and passed House Bill 12 into law. But that hasn't stopped gun ban lobby and a few anti-self-defense cops (with the willing help of our sour grapes press ) from using the same tired fear tactics. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ohioans fired up about gun law...

Public officials' rush to ban CHL-holders could be illegal

2:05pm Saturday, February 14, 2004
URGENT UPDATE! Local Village Attempting Open Carry Ban (NE Ohio) by Chad D. Baus Some public officials may be guilty of violating Ohio's new concealed carry law before it even takes effect. On February 2, the Akron Beacon Journal reported that Summit County Executive James McCarthy issued an executive order "prohibiting guns in all county buildings and vehicles and on county property." On...

Masked robber fires shotgun inside bank

12:03pm Saturday, February 14, 2004
Ohio is one of the highest ranking bank robbery states in the nation. Meanwhile, someone in Hamilton County is more worried more about whether or not a concealed hangun license (CHL) -holder can be prevented from carrying a gun while traveling through a bank’s drive-thru night deposit or ATM, if the bank specifies that firearms are not allowed on the premises. Feb. 14, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal...

Concealed Carry [Licenses] Meet Complications

8:18am Saturday, February 14, 2004
The following story highlights the reason OFCC and the OFCC PAC continue to need your support (via membership dues and donations). OFCC will obviously watching these developments very closely. Ohio's defenseless citizens have waited far too long for their right to bear arms for self-defense to be restored. Innocent people continue to be victimized. False issues like a supposed HIPAA conflict...

Signs must be up to bar weapons, businesses told

8:00am Saturday, February 14, 2004
February 14, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer HAMILTON - About 75 business owners and others on Friday quizzed Butler County sheriff's officials on Ohio's new concealed-carry law. The information session was aimed at business owners, and covered their rights and responsibilities under the new law. One main concern by employers: Does the concealed-carry law mean they cannot ban employees and customers...

Campus victim zone: Shooting puzzles peaceful Bluffton

5:18pm Friday, February 13, 2004
We've said it before and we'll keep on saying it: so-called "gun free" zones do nothing to prevent persons intent on breaking the law from doing so. Ohio's concealed carry law contains far too many defenseless victim zones, which do nothing to deter criminals, but do everything to endanger potential victims. Bullet hits door in college dorm February 13, 2004 Toledo Blade BLUFFTON, Ohio - Someone...

Another Dayton carjacking: Teen shot at Colonel White School

4:55pm Friday, February 13, 2004
February 13, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON -- A teenager was shot in the leg today during a failed carjacking outside Colonel White School for the Arts. Larry Ethun, a Dayton Fire Department paramedic, said a male was shot once in the leg, a non-life-threatening injury. He was taken to a hospital. href="http://www.a-human-right.com/RKBA/s_am18.jpg" target="_blank"> src="http://www.a-human-...

Huh? DDN's Doug Page says ''Carry law benefits marginal''

3:13pm Friday, February 13, 2004
We're not sure from the title OR from the article, but we think this is a pro-concealed carry article. If so, it'd likely be a first for the Dayton Daily News. By Doug Page Dayton Daily News February 11, 2004 More than 200 people gathered in Xenia last week to find out how to carry a concealed firearm. More were turned away from the door for fear the fire marshal might close the crowded meeting...

Dayton pizza delivery driver wounded; Cleveland good samaritan killed

1:13pm Thursday, February 12, 2004
Ohio's sheriffs say they'll be ready to accept applications on April 8. The Attorney General's office has still not confirmed that they'll provide the materials needed by that date. Defenseless Ohioans cannot afford further delay. Dayton pizza delivery driver wounded Cleveland good samaritan killed Cincinnati man killed in ambush; girlfriend, son taken in carjacking

Sheriff's office looking at CHL list inaccuracies

4:36pm Wednesday, February 11, 2004
IMPORTANT NOTE: The following parody was adapted from a recently-published Ohio news story about reports of significant errors in the Attorney General's new sex offender database (the original story may be accessed by clicking here ). Very few words were changed. Since some liberal newspaper editors are promising to publish the lists of law-abiding citizens who choose to bear arms for self-...

New law spurs sales, queries at gun show

3:18pm Wednesday, February 11, 2004
February 08, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Story edited for space - click here for the entire story (subscription site - paid access only) Jamie Shepard picked up the sleek, silver handgun and tested the weight of it in her palm, grabbed it by the grip as if to shoot and excitedly called her husband to the table. "It's the perfect size for me. It's easy to conceal," said the petite 27-year- old mother...

Background checks for CHL applicants, but not for felons employed at schools!

2:51pm Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Gun control is all about protecting the children, right? So why is it that the people with most direct access to children aren't being put through the rigorous, invasive, privacy-destroying investigations that law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise a Constitutional right are put through? Parents outraged at ex-cons working in schools February 06, 2004 WYKC Channel 3 Cleveland CLEVELAND -- A...

Crain's Cleveland Business prints OFCC response to business-scare op-ed

1:22pm Wednesday, February 11, 2004
In late January, we told you that Crain's Cleveland Business had published an opinion editorial attempting to scare Ohio businesses about Ohio's new self-protection/defense law. The op-ed was written by the president of the "Million" Mom March chapter of greater Cleveland. In their February 9, 2004 edition, Crain's published the official OFCC response, as submitted by OFCC's northwest Ohio...

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