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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.
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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
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Alaskan Crime Victims On Their Own
- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Written by Daniel White
Story written by Tom McNaughton
KOTZEBUE, Alaska Susan Jones knew she had to leave her remote southeast Alaska village when she came home to find her husband clutching his loaded rifle.
In his other hand, she said, was the crumpled restraining order she had filed against him a day earlier after he sent several bullets whining past her head.
"He just had it bunched in his hand and it clearly didn't mean anything at all," Jones said.
Many crime victims in rural Alaska face the same predicaments Jones was confronted with as a victim of domestic abuse: weak law enforcement, lack of anonymity in sparsely populated communities and no easy way to escape the state's isolated bush communities.
Fortunately for women like Susan Jones, Alaska has a law that allows anyone who may legally possess a firearm can carry it concealed without having to obtain a special permit if 21 years of age or older. Battered women may learn tragically that restraining orders dont offer much restraint to abusive husbands.
As she related he experience with her ex-husband, Jones said: "That piece of paper's not bulletproof."
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Ohio women fleeing abusive husbands may find themselves in an entirely different situation. Although our state law allows for sheriffs to issue such a woman a Temporary Emergency Concealed Carry Handgun License, yet the restrictions attached to the application dont necessarily make it an easy task. The application warns:
This application will not be processed unless all applicable questions have been answered and until all required supporting documents as described in division (B)(1)(a) and (b) of Section 2923.1213 of the Ohio Revised Code have been provided and, unless waived, cash, cashiers check, or money order in the amount of the applicable license fee have been submitted. FEES ARE NONREFUNDABLE.
Of course, by the time all the questions have been answered and all the documents have been provided, the applicants husband may have already found her. Then she might not need to have her fees refunded .ever.
Perhaps that explains why in 2004 only 65 Temporary Emergency Licenses were issued (with five denied!), and so far in 2005 only 54 have been issued (with four denied!). It seems hard to imagine only 129 battered spouses have sought to protect themselves with a firearm and an emergency license in the past year and a half since our concealed carry law has been in effect. Let us hope nothing really bad happened to the nine persons who were denied such licenses.
Wouldnt it be nice if the state of Ohio could trust and care for its citizens as much as the state of Alaska trusts and cares for its own?
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