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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 Read the Full Story

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Ohio CHL Law Not All Bad

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Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
Written by Daniel White

Written by OFCC Teamleader Tom McNaughton)

Ohio’s current concealed carry law is about the bare minimum one could ask for. It seems to have been written to make it so impractical that most people simply won’t carry a gun.

Ought we to be surprised? That is the sort of law one gets when living in a democratic republic. Had the law been crafted by gun owners for gun owners it might have been very different. Unfortunately, when nearly half of the legislature has a Big Government, Anti-Gun mindset, we can expect the law to be written in such a way as to discourage the average citizen from trying to follow it.

We will find, though, if we want to go about armed, the current law is not all that difficult with which to comply.

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Surely, the requirement to carry in "plain sight” in a vehicle is an inconvenience. Yet it is simply an unnecessary technicality with which we have to deal, and one that we hope the legislature will get corrected soon. If our employer forbids firearms at our place of work, we may have to leave our gun in our car during the day. Even so we can have it as we drive across town to and from work. Not only that, but the firearm we have to leave in our trunk is much closer at hand than the one we had to leave at home. Remember the school shooting in Pearl, Mississippi that was stopped by an assistant principal who retrieved a firearm from his vehicle.

There are indeed a plethora of Criminal Protection Zones that forbid lawfully armed citizens to carry firearms, but a responsible adult soon learns how to thread a way between them. There are plenty of banks and stores and shops that don't post. If on occasion we want to go to a restaurant that serves alcohol, we can leave our gun locked up in the car. It is still a lot nearer to hand than were it left in our gun safe.

I recall when I was first fitted for contact lenses. Due to my astigmatism the fitting was difficult and frankly uncomfortable. The doctor advised me that my success with the new lenses would be directly related to how badly I wanted to wear them. I decided that I wanted to, and I did.

Any procedure that affects our daily practice is going to require some initial discomfort. Those who want to lose weight need to learn to eat and exercise differently. Those who want to have their teeth straightened or whitened have to put up with a mouthful of discomfort. In every such case we have to decide whether the results are worth it.

We carry insurance on our houses, our cars, and our lives. We hope we never need to use it, yet it inconveniences us to the tune of several hundred dollars each month. We have fire extinguishers in our kitchens that we hope we never have to use. We have smoke detectors in our homes for which we have to get around to replacing batteries. It is something of a hassle, yet such things are a part of our responsibility as adults.

Is it worth it to be insured against possible emergencies? I think so. Is it worth putting up with some practical and technical difficulties in order to have a firearm at hand that might one day save my life or the lives of my family? I think so, too, but of course, you have to decide that for yourself.