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Mentel Ban Update: Mikey finds a reason to oppose home rule

12:05am Tuesday, June 13, 2006
By Chad D. Baus Municipal bureaucrats who oppose HB347's firearms law preemption provision, which will ensure that firearms laws are uniform across Ohio, do so under the complaint that such a law would tamper with Ohio's home rule provision. In spring 2004, Columbus' Mayor stood in a city park the day Ohio's concealed carry law became active and railed against the law because it disallows cities...

Exposed: The Buckeye State's Anti-Gun Puppetmaster

by Chad D. Baus
12:05am Wednesday, January 04, 2006
How Ohio's Gun Ban Extremists Try to Create the Illusion of Public Support for Gun Control In just a few short weeks, it'll be that time again. Time for a new self-defense bill to begin hearings before the Ohio General Assembly. Time for the anti-gun media to begin crying foul about any attempt to limit their access to CHL-holders' private information. Time for Ohio's resident gun ban extremist,...

Only 115 people observe Mentel Ban deadline

by Chad D. Baus
8:51am Friday, November 11, 2005
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that only 115 people responded to an order from Columbus City Council to register guns that the law defines as assault weapons. The ban took effect yesterday. From the article: "As of today, buying or selling an assault weapon in the city is illegal," Ralph Jones, a city licensing officer who handled the registrations, said yesterday. It’s also illegal to own...

The Culture of Fear

4:38pm Monday, May 30, 2005
By Chad D. Baus These days, there seems to be little else for the gun ban lobby to do than to attempt to create an irrational fear of law-abiding citizens who chose to bear arms for self-defense. The latest example, by Toby Hoover, who often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, comes in the form of a press release shouting “OHIO’S KIDS AT RISK OF BEING SHOT...

Letter to OFCC: Montgomery confronted at Republican meeting over anti-CCW stance

12:05pm Tuesday, January 25, 2005
From: Tim Inwood Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:22 AM Subject: Betty Montgomery put on the spot Here is a report from last night's Blue Chip Republicans meeting [in the Hamilton County/ Cincinnati area], which featured State Auditor and gubernatorial-hopeful Betty Montgomery. Rep. Tom Brinkman spoke earlier in the evening. Montgomery arrived about 30 minutes late from a fundraiser. She got...

Whirlpool backs out of workplace gun ban suit, but doesn't lift ban

8:10am Sunday, November 28, 2004
November 26, 2004 Wall Street Journal In Oklahoma, a Ban On Guns Pits State Against Big Firms VALLIANT, Okla. -- In late summer of 2002, Steve Bastible put three bullets into a dying cow at his ranch, threw the emptied rifle behind the seat of his pickup and forgot about it. A few weeks later, the rifle cost him his job of 23 years. That Oct. 1, in a surprise search, Weyerhaeuser Co. sent gun-...

Toledo's gun control laws are a proven failure

9:11am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Islands of danger, safety shape map of Toledo crime statistics The differences between Helen Weaver and Jackie Lothery are obvious. Helen, 79, is white and lives in a mobile home in suburban Northwood. Jackie, 51, is black and resides in a 19th century, wood-frame home in Toledo's central city. But the women do share something: the heightened prospect of being a...

Ohio Hospital Association encouraging victim zone mentality

by Chad D. Baus
10:35am Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Now that concealed carry is law in Ohio, businesses across the state are working to learn how they should respond in terms of policies within their own facilities. Some state-level business associations and organizations are offering help to their members, and delving into an area they obviously know very little about. In the case of the Ohio Hospital Association, the "help" seems to consist only...

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