Op-Ed: Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten Gov't Plans

June 29, 2004 Investor's Business Daily By John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer The gun -control movement is in trouble internationally. From Britain to Australia to Canada, promises of lower crime rates from gun control have turned into historic increases in crime. While the normal knee-jerk solutions are to press for even more controls, once guns are banned the explanation that the laws failed...

Vermont ladies ''Taking aim''

June 28, 2004 Bennington Banner SHAFTSBURY -- "Most people don't think of women wanting guns, but we do," says Bennington resident Jane Moffitt. Moffitt, who hasn't used a gun in more than 20 years, wants to protect herself now that her husband has died. She decided to attend a free National Rifle Association-funded program just for women Sunday morning called "Women on Target." Moffitt, along...

Signs Down & Safe Alternative lists continue to grow

Joe Eaton, OFCC's Business Education Task Force Coordinator, has received the following notification from First Clermont Bank: Dear Joe, We have removed our "no guns" signs from all First Clermont Bank locations. We gave the issue considerable thought before we added the signs in the first place, and went through a similar process before taking them down. Your letter was helpful, as were the...

OH Div. of Liquor Control clarifies position re: Class D and CCW

Ohioans For Concealed Carry and the OFCC PAC are pleased to announce that efforts to receive clarification with the Ohio Division of Liquor Control over the law's requirements for Class D liquor permit holders have been met with complete success. At issue was the question of whether groceries and convenience stores which possess Class D liquor permits, but which do not dispense liquor by the...

Security guard shoots armed robber

June 29, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Security guard Donald Swartout felt like he didn't have a choice. He had to shoot the man who was trying to rob a charity ``Las Vegas Nite.'' "It was him or me,'' said the 68-year-old former policeman. ``I'm not sorry I shot, but I didn't shoot to kill. I was protecting myself. I just fired. He already had his gun pointed at me. "I would have rather caught him...

Assault weapons ban renewal in doubt

June 28, 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein knows the odds are increasingly daunting as she tries to win congressional renewal of her 10-year-old assault weapons ban before it expires Sept. 13, and she warns that if the law lapses "you can expect the market to become flooded'' with such guns as AK-47s and Uzis. The California Democrat will be home in San Francisco on...

Editorial: Printing CCW list is for public good

The Warren Tribune Chronicle was one of the first of now four Ohio newspapers to have published the names of concealed handgun license-holders as though they were social pariah. For this act, the paper was awarded the "Bandemonium Award" in the July issue of the NRA's national First Freedom magazine. June 27, 2004 Warren Tribune Chronicle For proponents of Ohio's conceal carry law, we offer a...

Letter to the Editor: Miss-Led is a bigot

June 27, 2004 Toledo Blade I was intrigued by Marilou Johanek's June 18 column regarding Ohio's new concealed-carry law. In the course of her ill-informed rant against this law she made mention of "obsessive nuts" and "misguided ideologues with aggressive tendencies." I think that I'll leave the name-calling to her. What was most telling about Ms. Johanek's column was her assertion that Ohioans...

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