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''Quiet Revolution''

8:59am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 20, 2004 Reuters Guns Lobby Racks Up Legislative Gains Across U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun lobby seems poised for victory in a high profile battle to end a ban on some assault weapons and experts say it has also been piling up numerous quiet victories at the state level. A federal ban on certain military-style semi-automatic weapons enacted in 1994 is due to expire on...

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Harris, Gardner mum on who will be Senate president

7:57am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Randy Gardner was next in line to be House speaker when he was forced out of the House by term limits in 2000, so when the opportunity arrived to be Senate president, he wasn’t about to pass it up. Bill Harris was on the verge of being House speaker when he was blindsided by Larry Householder in 2000, so when the Senate presidency opened up earlier this month, he...

86-year-old scares off teen thief

7:33am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 20, 2004 Newark Advocate PATASKALA -- Eighty-six year-old Alice Hill isn't what you would typically think of as a crime-fighter, but she did stop a felony in progress on Friday, chasing off a burglar a fraction of her age. Hill was sitting in her son's Lynns Road residence watching the 700 Club on television when an unidentified white male kicked in the front door. "I didn't have time to be...

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Letter to Mall management

11:33pm Tuesday, July 20, 2004

To the Westland Mall Management, As a member of Ohioans's for concealed carry, and as a former police officer in Indiana, I read with great interest a CNN report that talked about a rapist who's been stalking a Wisconsin mall for 6 years. See this link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/07/15/mall.rapist.ap/index.html Here's an excerpt from that story that explains how he operated: "Prosecutors...

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Man robs ''gun-free'' bank in Dayton high-rise

11:22pm Tuesday, July 20, 2004

July 20, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | A man robbed a bank in a downtown high-rise office building Tuesday morning. The robber walked into Park National Bank on the 18th floor of 40 W. Fourth St. at 10:37 a.m. and demanded money, Dayton police Lt. Matt Carper said. Carper said that the man said he had a weapon and that witnesses said the man made a hand gesture under his shirt, but did not show...

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Ohio Auto Dealers Association Board Chairman reaffirms OADA neutrality on CCW

9:10am Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Following an email announcing that signs barring CHL-holders had been removed from his dealerships, Mr. Andy Glockner, owner of several car & truck sales-related businesses in the Portsmouth area, and Board Chairman of the Ohio Auto Dealers Association (OADA), has taken further action to ensure that OADA members are receiving only impartial information from the Association. ----- Original...

Democrat Senate hopeful Terry Anderson has not voted in nearly four years

8:51am Tuesday, July 20, 2004

July 19, 2004 (Zanesville, Ohio) - Senator Joy Padgett (R-Coshocton) today released the following statement in response to a Sunday, July 18 Athens Messenger story in which it was reported that Padgett's opponent, Northeast Ohio native Terry Anderson, has not voted in a general election since November 2000. "This reminds me of someone who skips church for years, then shows up all of a sudden one...

Petro: Off-duty officers must obey ''plain sight'' requirements; certain others

1:38am Tuesday, July 20, 2004

July 19, 2004 Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Off-duty police officers would not be required to obtain permits to carry hidden guns, but they would face the same restrictions as permit-holders going to bars, day-care centers and government buildings, according to an opinion issued Monday by Attorney General Jim Petro. Under the three-month-old law, people are prohibited from carrying concealed...