IS CRIME ON THE INCREASE IN POSTED BUSINESSES?



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The following list documents crimes committed in businesses posted with "no-guns" signs in the first year after passage of the law.

  • Woman Reports Rape At I-77 Rest Stop
  • Store on Do Not Patronize While Armed list robbed, clerk pistol-whipped
  • ANOTHER VICTIM ZONE ROBBERY: Gunman robs Fifth Third bank
  • FIVE: FirstMerit victim zone robbed again
  • 70-year old woman assaulted/ carjacked in ''No-Weapons'' Kroger parking lot
  • Tale of Two Signs: Willoughby bank robbed; Middletown store welcomes CHL
  • THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK: Posted Mansfield business ''brutally'' robbed
  • Police Search For Waffle House Bandit
  • Tale of FOUR OH Cities: Three posted business robbed; Armed Toledo clerk defends
  • Workplace shooting at another ''No-guns allowed'' business
  • Attempted abduction: Armed criminal confronts mall employee at ''No-CCW'' mall
  • Double jeopardy: Bank robber passes TWO companies' ''No-Guns'' signs
  • AGAIN: ''Posted'' Fifth Third bank inside Kroger robbed
  • First Merit: Another armed robbery in ''gun-free'' bank
  • Man robs ''gun-free'' bank in Dayton high-rise
  • Another ''no-guns'' First Merit robbery; Branch once held OFCC's accounts
  • Attacked in workplace parking lot
  • Victim zone prohibitions fail to stop Ohio shootings
  • Dairy Queen employee stabbed
  • Middletown Fifth-Third bank latest ''no-guns'' business to be robbed
  • ''No-Guns'' truck stop robbed at knife-point
  • VICTIM ZONES: Three Columbus Fifth Thirds robbed in same day
  • VICTIM ZONE: Mugging outside Blackburns Market
  • Armed robbery in ''gun free'' credit union
  • Two more ''No-guns'' banks robbed this week
  • Men armed with hammer rob ''no-guns'' gas station
  • CRIMINAL CASHES IN: One, possibly two more ''no-guns'' banks robbed
  • Police say [''no-guns''] gas station was robbed
  • FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise
  • Gunman takes cash from ''no-guns'' credit union
  • Election eve victim zone robbery in ''no guns'' bank
  • Fifth Third Bank robbery: not even the guards are armed
  • Kidnapping outside Toledo victim zone retailer
  • A Story of Arms in Three Ohio Victim Zones
  • Defenseless shopper robbed, carjacked after leaving store at ''no-guns'' Strip
  • STATE-OWNED VICTIM ZONE (again): Woman assaulted, robbed at rest stop
  • Kidnapped from a state-mandated victim zone
  • AGAIN: Man robs ''gun-free'' bank in Dayton high-rise
  • OhioCCW.org reader reports Victim Zone robbery
  • Gun shoved in mouth of employee in ''no-guns'' business
  • More armed criminals in state-mandated victim zones
  • Columbus nightclub: Disarmed CHL-holder watched helplessly as people died
  • ''Man charged with shooting at bouncer''
  • CHL-holder stops attack in parking garage of ''no-guns'' hospital
  • State-mandated victim zone: Man fires handgun during bar robbery
  • Cincy police officer's firearm stolen from parking lot outside ''no-guns'' biz
  • Newspaper carrier raped on the job; her employer bans self-defense
  • Police say gunman robbed (no-guns) credit union
  • Armed men rob ''no-guns'' Fifth Third bank
  • Another man with a gun in ''no-guns'' Holland Oil station
  • Victim zone robbery: Another Family Dollar gets hit
  • Armed robbery at ''no-guns'' Bureau of Workers' Comp garage
  • Masked men with handguns rob ''no-guns'' First Merit
  • FBI: More bank robbers used guns in their crimes last year
  • MORE: State-mandated victim zone robberies
  • ''Rob Me'' signs work wonders: Two more ''no guns'' banks hit at year-end
  • Spate of robberies at ''no-guns'' banks continues
  • TRAGEDY: Shots fired (again) at ''no-guns'' Fifth Third Bank
  • VICTIM ZONE: Police seek pair who robbed elderly man
  • THREE ''no-guns'' banks, and a customer in another, robbed around Ohio this week
  • Robberies in ''no-guns'' victim zones continue
  • Chillicothe: Armed man robs ''no-guns'' business
  • OFCC uncovers report of Fifth Third customer being robbed on exit from bank
  • Employee for ''no-guns'' newspaper carjacked outside work
  • ''No-guns'' Prime Outlets Mall circulates composite of Retail Rapist
  • Workplace gun prohibitions = promises not kept
  • Fifth Third Victim Zone: Female Bank Robber Captured
  • Man shot in chest during robbery attempt in VZ parking lot
  • VICTIM ZONE: Thief cuts man, 79, during assault in hospital garage
  • Another elderly victim at ''no-guns'' business
  • Elderly female customer robbed outside Fifth Third bank
  • ''Near riot'' at ''no-guns'' Dayton RTA hub
  • State-mandated victim zone: ''No-guns'' Columbus bar, defenseless patrons robbed
  • Owner of ''no-guns'' Dayton business angry about downtown violence
  • Victim zone double-whammy: Disarmed CHL-holder endures robbery & assault
  • Kidnapped at gunpoint from ''no-guns'' bowling alley, shot
  • State-mandated victim zone manager followed home, beaten, robbed
  • Elderly paper carrier for ''no-guns'' Toledo Blade savagely beaten
  • ''No-guns'' Sparkle Market employee beaten, robbed of night deposit
  • Gun battle suspects arrested at ''no-guns'' Good Samaritan Hospital
  • ''No-guns'' Lawrence Federal Savings Bank robbed at gunpoint
  • Report: Cops suggest posting of ''no-guns'' signs in store; Store robbed
  • Inmate flees ''no-guns'' hospital after ''nearly taking life'' of officer
  • Red Lake High - Another in the sad legacy of victim zone tragedies
  • Man with two guns arrested in ''no-guns'' Ohio U. library
  • Warning issued after robbery of night deposit at ''no-guns'' Fifth-Third
  • Last week: Five Ohio stores in ''no-guns'' UDF chain robbed!
  • State-mandated victim-zones: College student gang-raped
  • Woman carjacked at ''no-guns'' workplace
  • Armed robber disarms armed cop in ''no-guns'' credit union
  • Two more ''no-guns'' UDFs suffer armed robberies
  • Government-mandated victim zone attacks
  • Police Kill Man After Wife Murdered At "No-guns" Hospital
  • School/ College Victim Zone Shootings
  • (No-guns) News station reports (no-guns) grocery store robbery
  • Victim Zone: UC Student Punched, Robbed On Campus
  • Victim Zone: Help sought to solve robbery at bar
  • Purse snatching-carjacking-kidnapping at ''no-guns'' Dot's Market
  • Beer truck driver robbed of money outside ''no-guns'' IGA
  • ''No-guns'' UDF robberies continue
  • More victims of crime in places where guns are banned
  • Man charged after two UDF robberies and high-speed chase
  • One arrested after armed robbery at ''no-guns'' bank
  • Two ''no-guns'' Ohio businesses suffer robberies
  • Another armed robbery in a ''no-guns'' United Dairy Farmers store
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