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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:57 |
While much of the media throughout the state of Ohio is still reporting on the utter shock of unnecessary legislation that was brutally forced into law by evil gun lobbyists after a mere fifteen months of intense deliberation and numerous committee and floor debates, Senator John Carey (R 17th District) has published an article in The Chillicothe Gazette to help explain the rationale behind the Legislatures actions:
When our Founding Fathers set out to establish the governing laws of this nation, much debate centered on the importance of individual freedom. These early leaders recognized that in order to build and maintain a successful society, government power must be limited, citizens must be engaged and every person should be guaranteed certain unalienable rights
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:01 |
Today the Ohio House of Representatives took up Substitute House Bill 9 and considered amendments made by the Ohio Senate. As you may recall, Representative Tom Brinkman amended HB9 on the House Floor to create an opt-out system that would allow concealed handgun licensees to deny journalists access to their private information. You may have read on our website that the Ohio Senate modified this opt-out system with a compromise.
Represenative Oelslager compared it to a compromise on autopsy records. Instead of being able to obtain actual photos (or in our case, photo copies), the requesting journalist may see the records of license holders and take notes. Sheriffs will no longer be permitted to distribute bulk photo copies. This change will make it more difficult, if not financially prohibitive, to obtain entire lists of license holders for the sake of intimidation tactics made popular by newspapers like The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 18 December 2006 04:28 |
Several big city mayors are still shaking their fists at the Ohio legislature and threatening a legal battle over statewide preemption in Ohio.
While they claim that this is an issue of public safety, they don't seem to be able to provide any evidence to back it up. The NRA reports that in the last six years, there have been only three charges under local "Assault Weapons Bans" (AWB). Hardly a crime epidemic, and there were almost certainly other charges to pursue in those few cases.
The national AWB sunset back in September with hardly a whimper. Every official study showed it had no effect on crime, and there have been no mass shootings by machinegun wielding criminals since it expired (and for good reason since the ban had absolutely nothing to do with automatic firearms, which are still very strictly regulated). There is no statewide AWB for the same reason, it does nothing. Yet we are to believe that these cities know better than their neighbors, the state, and the nation? That the vast majority of states don't know what they're doing, because almost all of them also have statewide preemption? That somehow these few cities got it right when everyone else got it wrong?
Might it instead be a case of a small, anti-gun minority desperately trying to hold on to their power and push their misguided views on the majority? You might think so when you learn that the AWB merely scratches the surface. |
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:45 |
On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate took up Substitute House Bill 9 after the Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice Committee. As many of you may recall, Representative Brinkman amended HB9 (an open records bill) on the House floor to create a provision for Concealed Handgun License holders to opt-out of the release of their private information to the media. That amendment, and the entire bill, passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support in the Ohio House.
The Senate committee changed that opt-out provision to a system that OFCC feels is an acceptable compromise. As you will read, that compromise is not what was originally proposed. However, it makes it nearly impossible to continue the abuse that some Ohio media outlets have pursued. While certain information is still available to the media, they are only granted the right to view that information at a Sheriff's office. They may not write it down, copy it, or record it. Most importantly, they can not go to the Sheriff and request a written or electronic copy of the personal information about every single licensee. This will eliminate the means that have produced the dangerous blanket lists that some media outlets have been publishing.
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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:32 |
I imagine that many Ohio firearm owners awoke this morning refreshed from their slumber that was free from nightmares... Nightmares that won't be able to come true around three months from now... Nightmares about unknowingly becoming a criminal due to crossing a municipal boundary with a handgun that can be legally carried some places and not others with their state-issued Concealed Handgun License. Many probably sipped their morning coffee and smiled while thinking about how nice it will be to never again worry about the ambiguity of Ohios car carry restrictions. Hopefully, their celebratory mood wasnt ruined when they opened their newspaper and saw the expected whining that is likely to prevail for quite awhile.
"It's really arrogant for them to just ignore the will of the people," said Toby Hoover, executive director of one of Ohios anti-gun organizations. "It shows they just don't have any respect for us at all. We're terribly disappointed. It's a pretty determined bunch of people in favor of the gun lobby."
Ms. Hoover needs to be reminded of a couple of things. |
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