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Concealed carry licensees from area are pleased with newfound freedom

1:22pm Saturday, May 08, 2004
May 6, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder ZANESVILLE -- More than a hundred residents in Muskingum, Morgan, Licking and Guernsey counties have received their concealed carry weapons licenses, and applications keep coming. Major Bryan Hoover of the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office couldn't determine who the first person to receive the license was, but 116 have been issued to applicants from those...

Advocates of the conceal/carry gun law say system is moving too slowly

8:02am Saturday, May 08, 2004
This story has been picked up by the Associated Press and is being printed in newspapers across the state . Permit process takes time May 08, 2004 Columbus Dispatch More than 450 conceal/carry licenses have been issued in central Ohio since a new state law took effect one month ago today, but proponents say sheriffs still must do more to ease the application process. In Franklin County, where 246...

Applications steady for concealed-carry

7:40am Saturday, May 08, 2004
May 8, 2004 Dayton Daily News The April 8 start of the new concealed-carry law was expected to generate a rush of gun permit applicants, but officials in Montgomery, Miami, Greene and Warren counties say the process is steady and manageable. "The first day, the computer was overwhelmed, but that was fixed and since then we haven't had any problems," Montgomery County Sgt. Larry Schroeder said. "...

Dear Kroger...

5:10pm Friday, May 07, 2004
May 7, 2004 I have been a Kroger customer all my adult life. The reason I'm writing today is to ask you if you wish to continue to earn my business. I've learned that you are enabling criminals and discriminating against my fellow American's civil rights in your Cincinnati-area stores by prohibiting their right to protect themselves. Specifically, you don't want armed customers in your stores...

MicroCenter signs come down; Kroger digs in for a fight

4:45pm Friday, May 07, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry is pleased to announce that MicroCenter has made a corporate decision to treat their Ohio customers exactly as they've been treating customers across the country for years. Discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders in Ohio stores are coming down, effective today. ----- Original Message ----- From: Customer Relations Sent: 5/7/2004 1:18:45 PM Subject: New policy Dear Mrs...

Kroger ''reexamining the issue'' after massive grassroots uprising

11:30am Wednesday, May 05, 2004
UPDATE: Kroger digs in for a fight . Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been informed by Kroger Customer Relations that the company is reexamining its decision to post signs barring concealed handgun license-holders from its Cincinnati-Dayton area stores. One of the most offensive parts of the decision by Kroger's Cincinnati region risk management division is that although that department controls...

SPITE: Two Ohio newspapers violate privacy of county CHL-holders

by Chad D. Baus
1:23pm Saturday, May 01, 2004
In the past two days, the Warren Tribune Chronicle (Trumbull Co.) and Elyria Chronicle-Telegram (Lorain Co.) have begun punishing the citizens of their respective counties as a means of protesting Ohio's new concealed carry law. Both news outlets published the names of every person who has been issued a CHL in the county. The Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel recently considered doing the same in Indiana,...

Letter to the Editor: Concealed-carry law can't be infringed

8:22am Friday, April 30, 2004
April 30, 2004 Toledo Blade Some weeks ago the Ford administration announced its intention to ban concealed-carry in parks, on TARTA buses, and other public places, claiming this ability under "home rule." Not only does the state constitution specifically prohibit this, so does the newly passed concealed-carry law, a recent state Supreme Court ruling, Toledo Municipal Code, and the oaths of...

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