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Columbus: Suspect Shot In Home Invasion Attempt

2:55pm Friday, January 02, 2004
Two Other Robbers Are In Custody January 2, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two home invasion suspects were in custody and another was hospitalized Friday morning following a shooting during their attempted invasion, NewsChannel 4 reported. The three robbers broke into a woman's house on North Roys Avenue, but police said the woman got a gun and fired at them. A robber who was hit showed up several blocks...

Tale of Two Cities: Dayton store owner killed; Hartford robbers jailed

2:52pm Thursday, January 01, 2004
Trotwood man shot, killed in robbery DAYTON | A 46-year-old Trotwood man was shot and killed during a robbery as the man closed up his Dayton business on New Year's Eve, according to Dayton police. The man and his adult son were closing Gina's Party Store, 3025 Salem Ave., around 10:50 p.m. when the man was accosted in the parking lot by a male wearing a blue stocking cap, according to Dayton...

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,...

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,...

Comments show necessity of events like Vermilion's

9:55am Saturday, December 20, 2003
Today, December 20, from 12:00 to 2:00, there will be an Open Carry Shopping Day in the Harbour Town historic district of Vermilion, OH. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Question of the Day for December 16 asked: What do you think of the "Vermilion Open Carry Shopping Day" event? Open Carry "Defense' Walks have always been about showing the absurdity of a state law and Supreme Court which bans...

AP: Concealed weapons backers plan armed shopping trip

11:16am Tuesday, December 16, 2003
VERMILION, Ohio (AP) -- Supporters of a concealed weapons bill plan to holiday shop Saturday while wearing holstered guns. "Handguns only, please. Longarms risk knocking over merchandise and crowding other customers. It will be your choice whether to carry your firearm loaded," Dan White advises on his Web page promoting "Vermilion Open Carry Shopping Day." The 29-year-old Lorain man is...

'No More Excuses, Gov. Taft; Sign CCW Bill,' Gun Rights Group Insists

5:58am Friday, December 12, 2003
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), an OFCC Civil-Defense Rights Coalition member , has issued the following press release concerning the expectations their members share of Gov. Taft on HB12. BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 11 -- "Ohio Gov. Bob Taft has evidently run out of excuses and the time for stonewalling on public safety is past. It's time for Taft to sign concealed...

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Defense Walks Memorable

8:33am Monday, December 08, 2003
All three Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 'Defense' Walks, the last of the traditional Walks for 2003*, achieved splendid results. About 50 Walkers braved the cold to attend the Toledo-area 'Defense' Walk in Perrysburg. Organizer Herb Worley reported that Toledo television stations, which largely ignored the first Toledo-area Walk in Swanton (only FOX Toledo covered there), were out in force this...

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