October 18, 2004 Albany (NY) Times Union It was July 1998. Newspapers were full of stories about a seeming rash of shootings in schools. About 40 representatives of law enforcement, public health…
Author: Buckeye Firearms Association
Attacks raise concerns on OU campus
October 14, 2004 Athens News A string of sexual assaults on campus in the last month has raised concerns over the safety of students, particularly females, on the streets after dark. According…
FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise
October 17, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Robbery trend worries officials It’s not just the increase in bank robberies this year across central Ohio that has officials concerned. It’s how the heists are being…
Police say [”no-guns”] gas station was robbed
On October 15, 2004, the Mansfield News Journal reported that Mansfield police are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC’s Do Not Patronize While Armed database. The newspaper report…
Plain Dealer’s Clifton a part of Ohio Supreme Court PRIVACY Subcommittee
The following information was submitted by a reader to the www.ohioccw.org website. It appears that Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a member of the Privacy Subcommittee of the…
Britain: A gun crime every five hours since shooting of Danielle
If he succeeds in fooling gun owners, and is elected, this is what those who support John Kerry for President will be asking him to do to America’s gun laws – disarm…
Two Ohio appearances for Dr. John R. Lott this month!
John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime” and “The Media Bias Against Guns” will be in Ohio for two debates against what will no doubt prove to be uninformed, emotion-based gun…
Applicant: Lorain Co. CHL application logjam breaks?
The following message was posted by a subscriber to OFCC’s CCW-Talk discussion list. Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:02:49 -0400 Subject: [ccw-talk] Lorain County – quick turnaround! Greetings, Just wanted to give a…
Letter-writer: Plain Dealer practices ”life threatening, dirty journalism”
The following letter, addressed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer editor, was CC’d to OFCC. It is written in response to the Plain Dealer’s latest abuse of a provision giving the media an…
Op-Ed: The good guys carry guns, too
October 9, 2004 The Roanoke (VA)Times by Ed Mitchell Jake is a good friend, and I’m sure he’ll forgive me for not using his real name here. One of the reasons I…