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4:50am Friday, January 21, 2005
Bush Lawyers Target Gun Control's Legal Rationale January 7, 2005 The Wall Street Journal Readying for a constitutional showdown over gun control, the Bush administration has issued a 109-page memorandum aiming to prove that the Second Amendment grants individuals nearly unrestricted access to firearms. The memorandum, requested by Attorney General John Ashcroft, was completed in August but made...

Shelby Co. Licensee petitions elected officials re: VZ liability

4:45am Friday, January 21, 2005
We couldn't have said it any better ourselves... Ohio State Senator Jim Jordan Ohio State Representative Derrick Seaver Dear Sirs, I'm one of your taxpaying voting citizens and a Shelby County CCW Licensee (yes, I'm one of the persons damaged by the Shelby County Sheriff, but that is not the issue of this letter). I have serious problems with this part of the Ohio CCW law and how it is being used...

FOX: Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Gun Charge

9:56am Thursday, January 20, 2005
The FOX News Channel is reporting that anti-gun, anti-America filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. align="right"> FOX reports police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody after he declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter. According to the story, Burke is licensed to...

Chillicothe: Armed man robs ''no-guns'' business

10:44pm Wednesday, January 19, 2005
The Chillicothe Gazette is reporting that a business called Check Into Cash was robbed at gunpoint Thursday afternoon. The newspaper did not report that the criminal walked right past the business' "no-guns" signs in order to commit his crime. align="right"> According to the story, an employee reported to police a man entered the store in Central Center with a gun and rushed toward her as he...

''No-guns'' Fifth Third bank earnings down 60%; competitors' up

2:56pm Wednesday, January 19, 2005
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Fifth Third Bancorp (NasdaqNM: FITB) experienced a 60 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings. The DDN notes the announcement came the same day two other Ohio banks posted quarterly gains. align="right"> The Cincinnati-based bank holding company announced that fourth-quarter net income was $176 million, or 31 cents per diluted share, compared to $442...

State-mandated meat market: Ohio college students suffer rape and kidnapping

Chad D. Baus
1:08pm Wednesday, January 19, 2005
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a 21-year-old female Cincinnati State student reported being raped in a college building Thursday night. The report says officials are releasing few details about the attack, but that a Friday e-mail to faculty and staff said the student was assaulted by a young man who offered to show her around the school's new Advanced Technology and Learning Center...

Op-Ed: Fear, Loathing and Obstruction of Justice in Ohio

12:30pm Tuesday, January 18, 2005
By Chad D. Baus and Gerard Valentino CNSNews.com Commentary January 18, 2005 Dan Rather and CBS News continue to make national headlines due to their forgery-induced attack on President Bush during the 2004 presidential campaign. This high-profile case shows just how far the media is willing to go to push their left-leaning agenda. It also underscores the need for diligence in dealing with the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VICTIM ZONE: Police seek pair who robbed elderly man

7:02pm Friday, January 14, 2005
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that Akron police are searching for two men who abducted an elderly man at gunpoint from the parking lot of a "no-guns" business, robbed him and forced him to drive them to Canton on Wednesday. According to the story, the men approached the man from behind around 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the Acme grocery at 2905 Whipple Ave. The newspaper says they...

Kent State Univ. ''Treats Second Amendment Club Like Second-Class Citizens''

6:52pm Friday, January 14, 2005
By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Editor January 14, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - Administrators at Kent State University in Ohio have refused to recognize a Second Amendment club as an official student group, a conservative organization claimed Friday. Students organized the group with the assistance of the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, which helps start and maintain conservative groups at...

Op-Ed: Why Liberals Love Gun Control

6:37pm Friday, January 14, 2005
By Justin Darr MichNews.com Jan 11, 2005 If there is one thing liberals love more than banning Christianity from public schools it is creating ineffective gun control laws. Despite centuries of evidence that gun control laws do not lower crime, stop violence, or make society safer in any way, liberals keep plugging away at our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. I am not going to weary...

Suspect sought in roadside rape attempt

6:29pm Friday, January 14, 2005
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Warren County authorities are asking the public for help in finding a man who attempted to rape an 18-year-old woman whose car broke down on Ohio 48, just south of Lebanon. The newspaper reports the county resident dialed 911 at 10:48 a.m. Tuesday to report fighting off a man who pulled next to her car in a white Dodge pickup. Investigators told the DDN the...

Education Guide Lesson #8: Who Wins, Who Loses, When Guns Are Banned?

6:19pm Friday, January 14, 2005
Yet another eye-opening study course has been added to the OFCC PAC Education Guide . T. Dave Gowan, Ph.D., asks and answers the following questions: Who gains by [gun] ban policies, and who loses? Are these policies effective in any way? Do these business policies prevent any firearms-related crime? Or do they affect only law-abiding customers? This piece serves as an excellent examination of...

OFCC issues first ''Division of Wildlife Concealed Carry Status Report''

10:30pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
The Ohio Division of Wildlife has been reviewing the impact of the Ohio concealed carry law as it relates to hunting regulations, shooting ranges operated by the Division, wildlife areas, and other issues. The Division presented the proposals for the 2005 – 2006 hunting regulations to the Ohio Wildlife Council on January 5, 2005. Disappointingly, these proposals did not include any changes to the...

Fifth Third: Signs not posted to keep criminals out; They want to keep YOU out

3:36pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
The following story was published by American Banker Online on January 7, 2004. The Wall Street Journal republished the story on its subscription website, www.online.wsj.com (and mentioned OFCC in its Morning Update email blast), that same day. It is being republished here with permission. When reading this story, it is important to keep in mind that the striking comments made by Fifth Third Bank...

Sheriff Leis “totally opposed” to being shopped to check quality of service

3:08pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
When a January 5 Cincinnati Enquirer story announced that Hamilton County Commissioners were planning to send "secret shoppers" in to test how helpful county employees are when dealing with the general public, Ohioans For Concealed Carry's first question was, "will the commissioners also send faux shoppers into the Hamilton County sheriff's office?" According to the Cincinnati Post , they will...

Blame the guns, or the criminals who carry them?

2:33pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
The January 10 issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer contains a story on the proliferation of gun crime into the suburbs, co-written by Jane Prendergast, Enquirer staff writer. Unfortunately, the story also contains a quote from one law enforcement officer who seem to think that guns, and not the criminals who use them, are the problem: "It's just ungodly how many guns there are in today's society,"...

Columbus homeowner defends life during home invasion

2:27pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
WNBS10TV.com is reporting that two men tried to rob a home east Columbus, and that the homeowner shot one of the robbers. According to the report, two men charged into the home and came face-to-face with the armed homeowner. The robber fired a shot, which grazed the homeowner, who then returned fire. Police say the robber died from those wounds. Police were able to track down the other suspect...

Almost There: Brady Lowers Ohio’s Grade to D-minus

1:11pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
One year ago, and on the heels of passage of Ohio's concealed handgun license law, a Columbus Dispatch reporter asked OFCC's Chad Baus his reaction to the Brady Campaign's (Handgun Control Inc.) annual grade card, which gave Ohio a D-plus for its "ability to protect children from gun violence." "I was hoping for an F," Baus was quoted as saying. "The Brady Campaign has a history of giving states...

Stop Putting It Off. Get Your Concealed Handgun License!

12:16pm Thursday, January 13, 2005
By Dean Rieck A lot of Ohioans have put off getting a Concealed Handgun License because they think it’s too difficult. But even though the new Ohio CCW laws are among the strictest in the nation, they aren’t that bad when you compare them to some of the blatantly anti-gun laws around the world. In South Africa, the Firearms Control Act was implemented in July 2004. This act forces South Africans...

OFCC PAC Endorsees pack Senate Judiciary Comm. on Crim. Justice

6:49pm Wednesday, January 12, 2005
The OFCC PAC has learned that a bevy of former PAC Endorsees have been appointed to fill the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice, where any concealed carry reform bills are likely to be given consideration. align="right"> Newly-appointed Senate President Bill Harris (pictured as he currently appears in a reading promotion for Richland County libraries, holding Charlton Heston's...

Ohio gun ban lobbyist admits ''no-guns'' signs won't stop criminals

8:11am Wednesday, January 12, 2005
In the wake of the shooting of Officer Bryan Hurst in a "no-guns" bank , and on the heels of a growing number of victimizations in "no-guns" businesses, gun ban extremist Toby Hoover has finally felt the need to make a statement. Hoover, who fronts what often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, sent a blast email just hours after the latest Fifth Third bank...

Letter to the Editor: Prevent death with concealed weapon

11:23pm Tuesday, January 11, 2005
In response to a misguided second-year economics student's letter to the editor, a Senior at Ohio State University who was there when the bullets began to fly has written an excellent rebuttal, which has been published in the University newspaper: January 10, 2005 The (OSU) Lantern I would like to respond to Kent Cherny's Jan. 3 comments regarding the Damage Plan concert, where four people were...

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