Guns in the News

Nearly 350 seek guns in Portage Co.

June 13, 2004 (Portage Co.) Daily Record Courier Nearly 350 people have applied in Portage County for permits to carry concealed weapons since a new law allowing concealed carry in Ohio took effect on April 8. Portage County Sheriff Duane Kaley said that as of June 9, 348 applications had been recieved by his office seeking the permits. Of those, at least 174 were approved and have been issued...

Editorial: New gun law has some kinks

June 12, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder The letter of the law often flies in the face of what seems reasonable. Harold Newell Jr. of Zanesville found that out recently when he was denied a concealed-carry gun permit. Newell is now 56 years old. But 38 years ago, as a teenager, he and four other youths stole five cases of beer from an unlocked cooler at a convenience store in Zanesville. He was...

Al Qaeda Cell in Ohio? FBI Says Suspect Plotting To Blow Up Columbus Mall

FLASHBACK: Terrorists on buses and in malls: Ohio CHL important to Homeland Security June 14, 2004 NBC4Columbus.com COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal authorities said Monday that they have charged a man from Somalia with plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall. According to the FBI, Nuradin M. Abdi, a 32-year-old Somali national, was indicted and charged with conspiracy to provide material...

Letter to the Editor: Stores should welcome concealed-carry law

June 13, 2004 Columbus Dispatch I respond to the June 5 letter from Lori A. O’Neill, president of the Greater Cleveland chapter of the Million Mom March ("Store owners who take on gun lobby deserve thanks"). O’Neill fails to mention that the only people who are banned from these businesses are the law-abiding, licensed, trained, screened, fingerprinted and honest concealed-carrying public. Those...

THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK: Posted Mansfield business ''brutally'' robbed

Volunteers in Mansfield have told OFCC that all three Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco stores in Mansfield are owned by the same individual, and that "no-guns" signs barring CHL-holders went up just a short time ago. June 11, 2004 Mansfield News Journal ONTARIO -- City police are looking for a suspect they say brutally attacked a clerk at Puffs Cigarette and Tobacco shop a little after 8 p.m...

Sidney Daily News and Shelby Co. Sheriff maintain they committed no crimes

June 12, 2004 Sidney Daily News Calls for state and local investigations have followed publication Tuesday in the Sidney Daily News of a list of concealed-carry permit holders as released by Shelby County Sheriff Kevin O'Leary. The publication of addresses was listed as illegal by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and by Ohioans For Concealed Carry. The former...

Concealed weapon ban in parks not enforceable

June 12, 2004 Toledo Blade Communities that ban people from carrying concealed weapons in parks despite a new state law have misfired, according to state officials. Such local policies conflict with the state's concealed-carry law and are not valid. Their enforcement could be challenged in the courts, said Kim Norris a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro. "If you are a licensed...

A few Sheriffs' difficult licensing procedures deterring applicants

June 10, 2004 StateNews.org Not as many Ohioans as expected are applying for permits to carry concealed weapons. That is sparking renewed debate about the law legislators passed last year to legalize hidden guns. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. Click here to hear the story via RealAudio streaming. Commentary: Before the law was implemented, Ohioans For Concealed Carry projected that...

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