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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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Taft: Don't let the door hit you on the way out
- Published on Sunday, 07 January 2007 22:44
- Written by Jeff Garvas
One minute after midnight Monday morning Ted Strickland was sworn in as Ohio's next Governor in a relatively small private ceremony in the Governor's office in the Statehouse. A much more elaborate event will take place this coming Saturday. For the first time in sixteen years, a Democrat will lead Ohio as Governor - and most likely with a platform more palatable to gun owners, if not far better than his predecessor.
Outgoing Governor Bob Taft will end eight-years marred by failure, the coin-gate scandal, ethics violations, and comical popularity ratings. This organization began it's legislative efforts fighting against "mandatory safe storage" gun control Bob Taft had pushed, with him even going so far as to make an unusual appearance before the Criminal Justice Committee to speak in favor of his bill. We won our first Bob Taft battle when the bill died in committee in 1999.
Over the past four years, Bob Taft has hid behind supposed law enforcement interests to force "plain sight" in a vehicle and news media exemptions into concealed carry legislation in an attempt to poison ccw reform. Each time the State Highway Patrol would give in to concessions, Taft shortly followed as if nobody saw the man behind the curtain. To say that Bob Taft was a hindrance to progress for gun rights reform would be an understatement.
In one of his last acts as Governor, Bob Taft vetoed concealed carry reform legislation that also included statewide preemption. The GOP Legislature embarrassed Taft one last time by promptly overriding that Veto, the first time a Governor's veto of non-budget legislation has been overridden in Ohio since 1977.
Governor Taft will be missed by few as we prepare to move forward with rebuilding the state, and continuing successes in gun rights reform. Hopefully, future successes will not be preceeded by titanic struggles as the previous ones have.