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Clashes between Taft, lawmakers typify turbulent year in state capital

12:29pm Sunday, December 28, 2003

December 28, 2003 By Jim Provance Toledo Blade (edited for space- click here to read the entire story in the Toledo Blade) COLUMBUS - Gov. Bob Taft and the General Assembly spent much of Ohio’s bicentennial year fighting over guns and what became the largest tax increase in state history. But then they stood together to trumpet passage of a unique prescription-drug discount program that could...

The Status of Ohio Concealed Carry Legislation

7:46pm Saturday, December 27, 2003

December 27, 2003 By Jeff Garvas, OFCC President Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been at the forefront to enact concealed carry reform legislation for nearly five years. We've worked with organizations like the Second Amendment Foundation, the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association, the Ohio Gun Collector's Association, the National Rifle Association and many other grassroots gun owners and...

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At defenseless Ohioans' expense, criminals having a merry Christmas

3:54pm Wednesday, December 24, 2003

His eleventh hour meddling having delayed concealed carry yet again, Bob Taft is spending another Christmas, whether in the Governor's mansion or in his private family retreat in socialist Canada, safe behind a wall of armed protectors. Meanwhile, the defenseless citizens of Ohio continue to be victimized by criminals who are undeterred by Ohio's current ban on concealed carry, or by any other...

Tale of Two Cities: Cincinnati murders up 5th straight year, Detroit crime down

10:10pm Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Officials in Michigan are crediting a new tough-on-gun crimes policy, modeled after Project Exile in Virginia, for inspiring part of the downward trend in crimes committed with firearms in Detroit. As we recently reported , the FBI has observed a 10.5% drop in crime across the state of Michigan in the first two years since passage of a concealed carry law there. For the first time in 40 years,...

Padgett and Aslanides file for legislative positions

9:29am Tuesday, December 23, 2003

December 23, 2003 Gannett News Service One would like to be a senator and the other would like to have another two years as a state representative. Joy Padgett, executive director of the Governor's Office of Appalachia, and state Rep. Jim Aslanides were at the Muskingum County Elections Office filing their intentions to run for the respective offices Monday. Padgett, a lifelong resident of...

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OFCC PAC Endorses Jean Schmidt for Senate District 14

2:46pm Monday, December 22, 2003

Choosing among friends Two pro-concealed carry Republican candidates have announced that they will compete in the March primary for the chance to replace Senator Doug White in District 14. White is term-limited, and cannot seek re-election. Both Rep. Tom Niehaus and Rep. Jean Schmidt have good voting records for concealed carry reform in the Ohio House. Both will certainly continue that record in...

Self-defense ambassadors bring good will to Vermilion

10:03pm Saturday, December 20, 2003

by Jim Irvine, OFCC PAC Chairman December 20, 2003 Seventy people attended today’s open carry shopping day in Vermilion, Ohio including about 15 women. From noon until 2 O’clock, we shopped and committed random acts of commerce. Unlike all the other open carry walks, participants of today’s walk were there not just to send a message, or display the absurdity of current law verses HB12. Today,...

Gannett: Senate may be able to override gun bill veto

3:19pm Saturday, December 20, 2003

December 20, 2003 By JIM SIEGEL and LEO SHANE III Gannett Newspapers Columbus Bureau COLUMBUS -- Senate President Doug White continues to insist that he doesn't have the votes to override a potential veto of a bill allowing Ohioans to carry concealed handguns. But others in his caucus disagree. "Based on the senators I've talked to, we would have enough votes to override the governor," said Sen...