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Ft. Knox Ntl. Bank removes signs; Customer robbed at Fifth-Third

12:51pm Wednesday, May 05, 2004

by Chad D. Baus Activists throughout Ohio are continue to make OFCC aware of successes in educating business-owners about why making their stores criminal protection zones is a very bad idea. We can't publish every story, but the following emails detail how just one persistent customer can make a difference: April 23 : Just left my bank, First Knox National, Centerburg office - they are banning...

Kroger ''reexamining the issue'' after massive grassroots uprising

11:30am Wednesday, May 05, 2004

UPDATE: Kroger digs in for a fight . Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been informed by Kroger Customer Relations that the company is reexamining its decision to post signs barring concealed handgun license-holders from its Cincinnati-Dayton area stores. One of the most offensive parts of the decision by Kroger's Cincinnati region risk management division is that although that department controls...

Store owner doesn't conceal his stand on firearms

5:38pm Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Businesses continue to get the message! The Ft. Knox Bank, Home Depot Springfield, Roman Cycle and the New Philadelphia Walmart are all businesses which briefly posted signs, only to take them down again after hearing from customers. There are also businesses like Todd Whitacre's (see story), which are not only support by NOT posting signs, but are showing support by posting pro-CCW signs. The...

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Gun ban extremists to offer first concealed carry ''corrections'' bill?

5:07pm Tuesday, May 04, 2004

OFCC members, training instructors, law enforcement officers and new concealed handgun licensees have already identified several problems with Ohio's concealed carry law that are in need of immediate attention. Restrictions on license-holders carrying firearms in motor vehicles which are not only unsafe (because they require too much firearms handling), but are unfairly discriminatory against...

Mall struck by 'Retail Rapist'; later posts signs disarming employees/customers

3:51pm Monday, May 03, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that one of the Ohio businesses which is discriminating against concealed handgun license (CHL)-holders, and acting to render their employees defenseless has had two high-profile incidents involving armed and violent criminals in just the past few months. In January 2004, a Van Huesen store at Prime Outlet Malls at US35/I71 in Jeffersonville was robbed by a...

SPITE: Two Ohio newspapers violate privacy of county CHL-holders

by Chad D. Baus

1:23pm Saturday, May 01, 2004

In the past two days, the Warren Tribune Chronicle (Trumbull Co.) and Elyria Chronicle-Telegram (Lorain Co.) have begun punishing the citizens of their respective counties as a means of protesting Ohio's new concealed carry law. Both news outlets published the names of every person who has been issued a CHL in the county. The Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel recently considered doing the same in Indiana,...

CAVE: Cuyahoga Co. Sheriff will take CHL appointments Monday, May 3

8:44am Saturday, May 01, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Cuyahoga Co. Sheriff Gerald McFaul has reversed plans to hold off acceptance of concealed handgun license applications until "the end of May", and will begin taking appointments on Monday, May 3, with the first applications being accepted on May 11. McFaul had already shown signs of weakening resolve, having announced that he would accept temporary...

Business ban hypocrite: Kroger stores in Ohio enacting concealed carry ban

7:40am Saturday, May 01, 2004

UPDATE: Kroger ''reexamining the issue'' after massive grassroots uprising Headquartered in Cincinnati, the Kroger Company has years of experience with doing business in concealed carry states. It is likely that CHL-holders have shopped at Kroger-owned companies while armed on literally millions of occasions. Several members of OFCC's steering committee were among those frequent (and armed)...