May 23
Wednesday
image image
OFCC Sues City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio The sign you see here is posted in Cleveland Heights Parks implying possession of a firearm is a crime. On Friday August 12th, 2011 Ohioans For Concealed Carry Filed a lawsuit against the City the City of Cleveland Heights. The litigation comes after many attempts to resolve concerns over laws that Cleveland Heights not only allowed to remain on their books, but also posted signs at their parks that continue to imply it is illegal to be armed. The City of Cleveland Heights has chosen to ignore our attempts at civil discourse. When individuals have contacted them representing themselves as residents of the City of Cleveland Heights their concerns apparently fell on deaf ears. When representatives of the organization have formally contacted the city's legal representation they've been laughed at and hung up on by the Law Director. It is this arrogance and refusal to work with Ohioans For Concealed Carry that has forced us to seek a remedy through the courts.
Our press release follows. Read the Full Story
Canton PD Event Leads to New OFCC Legislation When officer Harless of the Canton, Ohio police department came upon a vehicle stopped in the roadway most of us were focused on getting restaurant carry legislation signed into law. What took place that evening has become an international viral video, calls for the resignation of the City Council president, and criminal charges against a man who is clearly heard trying to state that he has a license. Ohioans For Concealed Carry has not just raised thousands of dollars in a legal defense fund, but we've written legislation to resolve this matter that Representative Danny Bubp has stated he's going to introduce this fall Read the Full Story

Search OhioCCW


Join OFCC Today!

Upcoming Events


2012 Party In The Park
When: August - TBD

LTE: Gun-safety program should be mandatory

  • Print
Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
Written by Jeff Garvas

March 29, 2005
Columbus Dispatch

It’s only a matter of time before we hear anti-gun pundits thumping their chests over the second-grader who found a handgun and brought it to school.

Instead of answers to the problem, they’ll use this incident to further their agenda to ban more guns, as if that is prevention. What we need is statewide prevention through mandatory education.

We will never be able to guarantee that a child will never find a firearm, as in this case. What is important is the fact that at least three children saw the firearm and not one of them did anything to prevent this tragedy, likely because they didn’t know better.

Ohio’s lawmakers approved funding for schools to offer the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Program to kids of this age. The program should be implemented immediately as mandatory education statewide. The program never shows a firearm or pushes firearm ownership. It teaches children who find a firearm a very simple mantra: STOP! Don’t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult. We teach children to stop, drop and roll if they catch on fire, so why not this? The Eddie Eagle program has been adopted by other states as mandated statewide education, and it should be in Ohio, too. As the antigun pundits would say: If it saves just one child...

Jeff Garvas
President, Ohioans For Concealed Carry
Macedonia