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Dayton Daily covers Wednesday Walk again

1:32am Sunday, November 16, 2003
Sunday's Dayton Daily News has a story about our open-carry Defense Walk from last Wednesday, a school funding protest the same day, and the fact that Issue 1 may end up on the March 2004 Primary Ballot. What the article didn't point out is the fact that Ohioans For Concealed Carry has collected an estimated 50,000 signatures demanding concealed carry reform, and Issue 1 failed by just under that...

Letters to Editors: CCW law is best way to protect Ohioans

8:19am Thursday, November 13, 2003
Anti-concealed carry/self-defense letters to the editor are few and far between these days, but when they are printed, they are always long on emotion, and short on facts. Leave it to the good guys to reply with the facts the gun grabbers left out. November 13, 2003 Cleveland Plain Dealer Regarding the Nov. 12 article "Proposed law may hide more than just guns" : Reporter Sandy Theis continues...

Taft's willing media accomplices at it again

11:27am Wednesday, November 12, 2003
But the REAL story on how law-abiding CCW licenseholders are is being told in Michigan Two weeks ago, OFCC learned that Gov. Taft had been trying to influence conference committee members to change provisions agreed upon by BOTH House and Senate - specifically the issues regarding protecting the privacy of Ohioans who apply for, and are granted or denied, CCW licenses. Taft should know better...

Van Wert man avoids indictment in shooting

11:11am Tuesday, November 11, 2003
November 11, 2003 Toledo Blade VAN WERT, Ohio — A Van Wert County grand jury has declined to return an indictment against a city resident in connection with a shooting during a domestic disturbance last month, the county prosecutor said yesterday. (see: Ohio man stops violent offender; charged with crime ) Prosecutor Charles Kennedy said the grand jury on Friday did not indict Richard Rable, 49,...

Gannett: Committee works on concealed carry bill compromise

10:05am Saturday, November 08, 2003
By JIM SIEGEL Gannett News Service November 8, 2003 COLUMBUS -- A joint House-Senate committee formed to work out a compromise on the concealed handgun bill will meet for the first time Tuesday, and the chairman says he's preparing new ideas. "All parties agree there are holes in this bill that need to be fixed. That's a good thing," said Rep. Jim Aslanides, R-Coshocton, who as bill sponsor is...

Update: Battle for self-defense rights in other states

9:59am Saturday, November 08, 2003
Wisconsin Assembly OKs End To Concealed Weapons Ban November 6, 2003 The Wisconsin Assembly passed early today a bill under which the state's 130-year-old ban on carrying concealed weapons would end. The Assembly voted 64-to-35 to approve the legislation which the Senate approved last month. But the Assembly made some changes to the bill, which means it must go back to the Senate before it can go...

National pro-self-defense group: Ohio a ''target-rich environment''

9:52am Friday, November 07, 2003
Taft, Legislature Left Ohio Workplace Shooting Victims Defenseless, Says CCRKBA For Immediate Release November 6, 2003 Thursday's workplace shooting in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio underscores the need for Buckeye State lawmakers to craft a sensible concealed carry law, and for Gov. Bob Taft to stop blocking the measure, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today...

84-year old Ruth Stanton couldn't ''just drive away''

3:42pm Friday, October 31, 2003
Willoughby News-Herald 10/28/2003 Jury selection under way for man accused of stabbing 84-year-old neighbor Jury selection began Monday in the case of a Mayfield Heights man accused of stabbing his elderly female neighbor to death. Yuriy Khanin, 21, a former resident of the Gates Mills Towers apartment complex, killed 84-year-old Ruth Stanton in April 2002 after a robbery gone bad, police said...

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