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Handgun process may start on time

12:07pm Saturday, March 06, 2004
March 06, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Handgun owners may be able to apply for permits to carry concealed weapons on April 8, the day the new law takes effect, because the state has been moving faster than expected to put the mechanics in place. "I think we will be up and running by the effective date," Robert A. Cornwell, executive director of the Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association, said yesterday...

Letter writers respond to DDN's Mary McCarty

4:48pm Friday, March 05, 2004
One month later, the Dayton Daily News has finally published one of the letters they received in response to Mary McCarty's fear-mongering diatribe about Ohio's new concealed handgun law. March 5, 2004 Dangerous people carry guns now RE MARY MCCARTY'S FEB. 1 COLUMN, "GUN LAW conceals its danger": McCarty and Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, still don't...

Cleveland business media assault on concealed carry continues

2:35pm Friday, March 05, 2004
Is there something in the water at the Cleveland business media's office buildings? Inside Business Magazine March 2004 Issue Trouble Shooting The Editors [email protected] When Ohio’s new concealed handgun law takes effect April 8, it doesn’t mean employees will be allowed to stash pieces in their cubicles. But it does mean employers should consider creating or updating handgun...

Bucyrus women need to hear the REAL story on self-defense

2:29pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Pity the poor woman in Bucyrus who attempts to ward off a violent attacker with a rolled-up newspaper or shoe instead of a .38 or .45. But that's the advice they got at this so-called self-defense seminar... March 1, 2004 Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum Classes on women's issues conducted Dee Marquart wasn't afraid to fight with a Bucyrus police officer, and neither was a police officer's wife, Joan...

WCPO: Ohioans Gear Up For New Concealed Carry Law

12:52pm Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Could this be WCPO's attempt to balance their recent "scare business about concealed carry" report? March 1, 2004 Cincinnati WCPO (ABC) TV People have been lining up to buy them and now they are lining up to learn how to use them. Ohio's new concealed carry law has driven a tremendous amount of interest in handguns. The new law signed in January does not go into affect until April 8, but Ohioans...

Well-known Cincy WCPO Reporter arrested, charged for sexually molesting kids

9:23am Saturday, February 28, 2004
Public trust and the "RIGHT TO KNOW": Should background checks be given to reporters? Should there be a public records registry letting concerned citizens known if an Ohio reporter lives in their neighborhood? Do we have the ability to choose not to share space with the Ohio media elite? February 28, 2004 Cincinnati WCPO (ABC) TV WCPO Employee Arrested A well-known employee of WCPO has been...

Fear-tactics: WCPO working to scare Ohio business-owners about concealed carry

8:48am Saturday, February 28, 2004
February 27, 2004 Cincinnati WCPO (ABC) TV Ohio Attorney General Works To Clarify Concealed Carry Law When Ohio's concealed weapon law kicks in there are going to be plenty of places you can not carry a gun. It is likely that list is going to include a lot more places than those you have already heard about. The law restricts guns from places like schools, libraries and where alcohol is served. A...

Senior citizen pulls gun on knife-wielding robber

5:36pm Thursday, February 26, 2004
To believe gun ban extremists, stories like this don't happen. February 26, 2004 Bucks County Courier Times A senior citizen using the men's room yesterday at a popular Middletown eatery was approached by a would-be robber waving a knife. The potential victim responded by pulling out his own weapon - a handgun. A thin, white male between 25 and 30 years old tried to rob the 68-year-old Langhorne...

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