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Armed robber hits beauty supply store

7:20pm Monday, January 17, 2005

The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Hair Gold Beauty Supply, 3933 Free Pike, was robbed Saturday and the clerk was shot by the armed robber. Dispatchers received the call of an armed robbery at the business at about 9 p.m. The robber fled on foot, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office told the DDN. The clerk was treated for injuries. Commentary: The following hair care locations in Ohio ban...

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Michigan paper: ''Shall-issue gun law: Any objections now?''

7:12pm Monday, January 17, 2005

January 13, 2005 The Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot It was a contentious debate that led lawmakers in 2001 to add Michigan to the roster of states with shall-carry gun laws. The debate is over, and a recent Citizen Patriot review of the past three years makes us wonder what all the fuss was about. Many feared that if you let lots of people carry concealed guns, there would be shoot-outs,...

Parolee's sub shop robbery attempt ''torpedoed''

1:24pm Sunday, January 16, 2005

The Dayton Daily News is reporting that a robbery suspect was shot in the arm Friday by the manager of the Subway restaurant he is accused of trying to rob in the 2800 block of East Third Street. The newspaper reports the suspect, whose name was not released, was taken to a local hospital to be treated for the non-life-threatening wound after police caught up with him at his sister's house in the...

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Robberies in ''no-guns'' victim zones continue

1:10pm Sunday, January 16, 2005

It's been yet another dangerous week for customers of "no-guns" businesses in Ohio. Criminals just don't seem to be able to grasp the idea that guns aren't allowed in places like the (Wisconsin-owned, northwest Ohio-based) Sterling Food Stores chain... · Findlay Sterling Food Stores Robbery The Findlay/Hancock County Crime Stoppers program is seeking help in finding a man who robbed a Sterling...

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JUSTICE SERVED: Second accomplice in murder of gun store owner gets 27 years

12:52pm Sunday, January 16, 2005

The January 11, 2005 Columbus Dispatch reported that a second accomplice in the robbery and murder of gun store owner and OFCC supporter Zane Wilson has been given the maximum sentence allowable for his crime. The story says that upon learning that Clifford Morefield told a probation officer that he "didn’t deserve the time," the judge "saw red". Common Pleas Judge Beverly Y. Pfeiffer, dismayed...

At least, this time, the media asked ''Can restraining orders really protect?"

10:26am Sunday, January 16, 2005

January 14, 2005 Huntington (WV) Herald Dispatch HUNTINGTON -- Can restraining orders really protect you? The question takes on tragic relevance in the wake of the shooting of a Ceredo woman Wednesday. The man sought in her death had reportedly violated such an order by showing up at her home the night before. Cabell County Magistrate Michael J. Woelfel begins his answer by defining some terms...

Gun ban lobby's own web poll shows support for CCW

10:17am Sunday, January 16, 2005

This probably wasn't what they were hoping for. A group of gun ban extremists by the name of "Women Against Gun Violence" have posted a web poll asking visitors "Should civilians be allowed to carry concealed weapons?" The website promotes its guiding principles to be: We have the right to be free from gun violence in our homes, streets, schools, places of work and communities. The presence and...

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THREE ''no-guns'' banks, and a customer in another, robbed around Ohio this week

8:14pm Friday, January 14, 2005

It's been yet another dangerous week for customers of "no-guns" banks in Ohio. Just days after a Columbus police officer was killed in a Fifth Third bank in that city, two more Fifth Third branches were robbed. And as the first report reveals, the long list of robberies in these unsafe businesses is likely much longer, but are not always reported in the newspapers. · Cleveland Fifth Third Robbery...