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AGAIN: Will Cleveland Plain Dealer's third abuse be the charm?

7:57am Friday, November 26, 2004
When the CHL-records "media access loophole" was created, Bob Taft's office joined the Ohio Newspaper Association in suggesting it was necessary to ensure that licenses were not being given out to the "wrong people", thus promoting the false idea that allowing law-abiding citizens the right to bear arms for self-defense was a disaster waiting to happen. But as OFCC pointed out at the time, the...

ATM robberies show need for self-protection in Ohio

6:38am Friday, November 26, 2004
href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1124morris.html" target="_blank">Dayton man charged with robbery at ATM - Nov. 24, 2004 A Dayton man is in the Montgomery County Jail charged with aggravated robbery stemming from his arrest Monday night by Dayton police, who said he robbed a Miamisburg man at a National City Bank ATM at 1501 Troy St. William B. Morris, Jr...

Judge Junkin reverses; returns illegally confiscated gun to CHL-holder

11:25am Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Reprinted with permission of Sun Newspapers November 24, 2004 By Kim Wendel, Staff Writer CHAGRIN FALLS — Bainbridge resident Justin T. English got his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver back Wednesday. On Monday, Bedford Municipal Court Judge Peter J. Junkin ruled that the gun be returned after English’s attorney made an oral argument for the gun’s return before Junkin. Junkin had police...

Customer shot at; helps nab fleeing robbers

9:41am Wednesday, November 24, 2004
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a restaurant customer is being called a hero for assisting police in apprehending three suspects who authorities think may be responsible for as many 20 recent armed robberies. "It was a great example of citizen involvement," Sgt. Roger Robbins of the Cincinnati Police Department's Robbery Task Force said Tuesday. According to the story, two masked men...

Headline: Aiming to Change Image

8:19am Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Advocates for concealed weapons laws have some points to make November 13, 2004 Chicago Tribune Howard Witt, Tribune Southwest Bureau Chief, recently on assignment in Phoenix PHOENIX -- Depending on your point of view, the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Phoenix was either the safest or most dangerous place in the nation one Saturday night this fall. Inside the main banquet hall, some 400 assorted...

Sheriff Karnes STILL doesn't understand the law on TELs?

4:46pm Friday, November 19, 2004
The Ohio Supreme Court could not have been more clear. The Court was so clear even the anti-CCW media reported it correctly: FRANKLIN CO. SHERIFF JIM KARNES WAS WRONG TO DEMAND "PROOF OF NEED" FOR A T.E.L. APPLICATION. Apparently there is one person left in the state who still doesn't get it: Nov. 18, 2004, Columbus Dispatch : [Karnes] has issued three emergency permits, but all three have...

Who's responsible for Spada's anti-self-defense hit piece? The Blame Game begins

3:24pm Friday, November 19, 2004
November 19, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Matius: Spada's gun barrel ad loaded with misinformation by Julie Carr Smyth Columbus - Some Cuyahoga County voters found themselves looking down the barrel of a gun a couple of days before the Nov. 2 election. In the form of a glossy campaign flier, that is. The startling gun barrel ad, distributed by the Ohio Republican Party for State Sen. Bob Spada,...

Media coverage of Supreme Court ruling uniform: A WIN for CCW

3:17pm Friday, November 19, 2004
No matter what Ohio media citizens are exposed to today, the verdict is clear: Ohio CCW won a huge victory in the Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday. The most comprehensive story was prepared by T.C. Brown of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. We have prepared a commentary to accompany the story, which is provided in below. Links to other stories are also provided. Top court widens gun-license path in urgent...

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