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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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OFCC Joins Call For Bloomberg Investigation
- Published on Friday, 05 January 2007 01:00
- Written by Daniel White
Ohioans For Concealed Carry is pleased to join with The Virginia Citizens Defense League and other gun-rights groups in calling for an official federal investigation into New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's assault on firearms dealers.
From the letter being sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
It is well known that Mayor Bloomberg has organized a multi-state vigilante-style campaign against federal gun dealers. Bloombergs gambit is simple without any federal or state law enforcement authorization, he sends people to federal firearms dealers to break federal law by providing false information on the federal ATF Form 4473 firearm transfer form, and then purchasing guns for persons prohibited by law from taking possession of guns (a so called straw sale). Bloomberg then files a civil lawsuit against the dealer in a New York court while using a covertly made video tape of the transaction to blackmail the dealer into settling on terms where the City of New Yorks Special Master will supplant ATF supervision of the dealer and peruse Americans confidential federal gun transfer records at will.
OFCC believes that nobody is above the law. Mayor Bloomberg's actions were not sanctioned or conducted by any law enforcement group. In fact, his self-appointed mission reportedly destroyed several ongoing BATFE investigations. "Conducting your own investigation" is not a justifiable defense for hiring people to attempt to break the law. If this was a normal citizen, he or she would be fully prosecuted for such actions.
Several gun dealers in Ohio were targeted by this illegal operation. Even though they have maintained innocence of the charges in the lawsuits leveled against them, many of these shops have given in to Bloomberg's demands in order to avoid expensive legal defense that could easily ruin them financially even if they did win in the end.
To help combat this tactic, VCDL has formed a defense fund to try to ensure gun shops in Virginia get justice.
Click here to read the letter to the BATFE