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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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Cleveland RTA Buses Have No Guns? Wrong
- Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:34
- Written by Jeff Garvas
Since the adoption of concealed carry in Ohio Cleveland's Regional Transit Authority, and Toledo's equivalent, have put signs on their buses and claimed that carrying a firearm on a bus was prohibited. Prior to March 14th when carrying a firearm in a motor vehicle required it to be "in plain sight" made it somewhat hard to "get away" with the act.
Cities have no authority to prohibit concealed carry by the general public in a motor vehicle. They can prohibit their employees, however, through a non-criminal employer rule that risks termination.
Time and time again we're asked "Why do you want to carry a gun There?" and the answer is because you simply never know when you might need a firearm to defend yourself. Last Friday, in the once "safe" suburb of Garfield Heights, an eighteen and twenty year old involved in some kind of altercation left an RTA bus near the Turney Rd. fire station, or the intersection of Turney & McCracken Rd.
According to published reports the eighteen year old shot and killed the twenty year old in a nearby parking lot with a firearm he clearly had been carrying on the RTA bus the whole time. He fled the scene only to be apprehended later.
Despite the fact that neither man should have had a handgun under Ohio law due to their age this case highlights the fact that no matter how safe you think an area might be the potential for deadly violence exists everywhere.
Those of us who choose to be prepared to defend our lives are not paranoid, but merely taking responsibility for our own self-defense.