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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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Ohio Fails Mental Background Checks For CHLs
- Published on Friday, 27 April 2007 09:57
- Written by Jeff Garvas
Various television stations and the Columbus Dispatch are publishing reports from the Ohio Attorney General's office because AG Marc Dann announced today that the State of Ohio has failed to conduct background checks extensively.
Four people who shouldn't have had licenses were identified, two who still had a license, or what equates to two hundred thousandths of a percent of the overall licensed population in Ohio. Marc Dann said that his office won't allow the process to work on sheer luck.
Jim Petro, who was AG when the concealed carry law went into effect, was contacted by Marc Dann and stated he was unaware of the situation. Background investigations that should include "adjudicated mentally incompetent" court decisions are performed by Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Identification. The Ohio BCI works under the Attorney General's office.
The fact remains that despite the system finding four people who shouldn't have been given a license by law these individuals passed every other single test. None of them were drug addicts, none had ever been convicted of possession, none of them had any convictions for crimes of violence, none of them were felons, and all of them took the mandatory twelve-hour course to carry a firearm in Ohio.
If these people were able to pass all of those hurdles and sit through a twelve-hour course without setting off any alarms one has to wonder just how dangerous to society they were. However, we applaud Attorney General Marc dann in his efforts to do the right thing and for coming out with the unfortunate news so promptly.
Fixing this and revealing that even under his watch the state had been doing the wrong thing for the past few months proves that Marc Dann is serious about his claims to end corruption in statewide politics.