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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Friday, 27 April 2007 14:58 |
It happened again. It might even be the third self-defense shooting in less than seven days in the City of Cleveland.
Channel 19 in Cleveland is reporting that a 80-year old woman awoke to breaking glass overnight and moments later heard someone running up her stairs. The woman lives alone and promptly drew a concealed .38 revolver from beneath her pillow and found herself trading shots with a burglar.
The gun was thirty years old.
Thankfully the woman wasn't hit and the suspect fled the scene with a scream indicating he may have been hit. Cleveland Police investigated, and unlike the Wells shooting, the woman's gun was handed back to her on the spot.
Channel 19's report can be seen on their website. |
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Friday, 27 April 2007 05:14 |
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.
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Friday, 27 April 2007 03:12 |
When a state statute is challenged the Ohio Attorney General's office is required to defend the law and the actions of the legislature in adopting that law. When Cleveland decided to pursue litigation against Ohio's statewide preemption law the Ohio Attorney General's Office did just that.
On April 17th the State of Ohio responded to Cleveland's lawsuit. The nine page answer is relatively "boring" compared to some previous legal documents we've shared here, but it does bring up some interesting defenses.
Most importantly, the State of Ohio has adopted the position that statewide preemption is constitutional in all respects. Interestingly enough the State points out that Cleveland has "failed to join all parties" required by law. This technicality probably won't result in the case being thrown out as much as having it dealt with.
Most encouraging is the fact that the State of Ohio has asked the court to dismiss with prejudice (so that the case can't be brought again) and to have the City of Cleveland pay all costs.
According to the court docket website a pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, May 2nd, at 2:00pm.
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Written by Jeff Knox
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:53 |
When I was six years old my family moved from Wichita Falls, Texas to Sidney, Ohio so Dad could head up the creation of Gun Week newspaper. One of the first things we noticed upon arriving in the land of the Yankees was that the people up north talked funny. Not only did they have odd accents and strange pronunciations, they had different words for things and used terms that were not common where we came from.
One word in common usage in Ohio which, while not completely foreign, was still odd to us, was the word "allow." Rather than saying, "My mom won't let me." or, "I'm not supposed to." Ohio kids would say "I'm not allowed."
There was something very uncomfortable about that word to me and that discomfort has been revived and gnawing at me for the past couple of years. At the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Charlotte, NC last year I discussed some of my concerns about the word "allow" and its implications. In this column I'm going to press the issue further and I expect that this will be a drum I'm going to be beating for a long time to come. |
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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 06:54 |
This alert for action is from the Gun Owners of America
Congressional Leaders Moving To Pass Gun Control Without A Vote!
-- McCarthy bill would treat gun owners even worse than terrorists
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm
"Another gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, is adamantly
opposed to the [McCarthy-Dingell] legislation. It said the measure
would allow the government to trample privacy rights by compiling
reams of personal information and potentially bar mentally stable
people from buying guns." -- Associated Press, April 24, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. GOA continues to
stand alone in the trenches, defending the rights of gun owners
around the country. It's not going to be easy.
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