July 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Randy Gardner was next in line to be House speaker when he was forced out of the House by term limits in 2000, so when the opportunity…
Author: Buckeye Firearms Association
86-year-old scares off teen thief
July 20, 2004 Newark Advocate PATASKALA — Eighty-six year-old Alice Hill isn’t what you would typically think of as a crime-fighter, but she did stop a felony in progress on Friday, chasing…
Letter to Mall management
To the Westland Mall Management, As a member of Ohioans’s for concealed carry, and as a former police officer in Indiana, I read with great interest a CNN report that talked about…
Man robs ”gun-free” bank in Dayton high-rise
July 20, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | A man robbed a bank in a downtown high-rise office building Tuesday morning. The robber walked into Park National Bank on the 18th floor…
Ohio Auto Dealers Association Board Chairman reaffirms OADA neutrality on CCW
Following an email announcing that signs barring CHL-holders had been removed from his dealerships, Mr. Andy Glockner, owner of several car & truck sales-related businesses in the Portsmouth area, and Board Chairman…
Democrat Senate hopeful Terry Anderson has not voted in nearly four years
July 19, 2004 (Zanesville, Ohio) – Senator Joy Padgett (R-Coshocton) today released the following statement in response to a Sunday, July 18 Athens Messenger story in which it was reported that Padgett’s…
Petro: Off-duty officers must obey ”plain sight” requirements; certain others
July 19, 2004 Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio – Off-duty police officers would not be required to obtain permits to carry hidden guns, but they would face the same restrictions as permit-holders going…
AGAIN: Elyria Chronicle Telegram publishes list of CHL-holders
July 16, 2004 Elyria Chronicle Telegram Get your gun permits Nearly 500 Lorain County residents have signed up for concealed carry permits by Cindy Leise ELYRIA — They walk among us and…
Montgomery County Concealed Carry Case Dismissed
The following news story by OFCC’s Larry S. Moore was published in the July 26 issue of the Xenia Gazette & Fairborn Daily Herald (and perhaps others). July 20, 2004 by Larry…
Senate to vote for prez
July 19, 2004 Dayton Daily News Senate Republicans may head back to Columbus in early August to pick the person whom they’d like to see as Senate President next year. Three candidates…