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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:08 |
When Ohioans For Concealed Carry decides to resort to litigation to resolve matters it comes after we, and sometimes third parties, have made attempts to resolve a conflict through other diplomatic or legislative methods. We simply do not go around taking people to court on a whim or, as recently stated in the comments of a Plain Dealer article, for the sake of publicity.
Our grassroots organization is proud of our efforts to educate law enforcement and communities with respect to changes in the law. In the past six months alone we've empowered grassroots activists to deliver documents written by Ohioans For Concealed Carry that explain Open Carry and more recently the new changes coming in SB17. By the time September 30th comes around we anticipate every police agency in Ohio will receive a copy of our letter.
We do this because it has become increasingly evident that when gun laws are changed in Columbus local municipal governments are either innocently ignorant, The City of Cleveland Heights has no excuse for it's actions fail to educate their officers of the changes in law, or are intentionally playing stupid hoping we'll go away.
Despite recent comments in the media by their law director John Gibbon the City of Cleveland Heights has been on notice at least since 2008. We implied in 2008 that they could be taken to court for failing to act, and they acknowledged our letter and stated they were going to look into the matter with their law director three days later.
In this Cleveland Heights Patch article John Gibbon was quoted stating:
"I’ve had no conversation with anyone about all of these other ordinances that they are suggesting are illegal."
It is intellectually dishonest for John Gibbon to tell the media we never brought concerns over gun control ordinances to their attention. Here is the proof:
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 18:55 |
Ohioans For Concealed Carry's Philip Mulivor, a named co-plaintiff in Ohioans For Concealed Carry v. City of Cleveland Heights and resident of the community being sued, was interviewed today by FOX8's Kevin Freeman. This story was the first story of their 5pm newscast Wednesday evening.
A number of people have indicated their interest in a copy of our complaint with the court. You can read that right here.
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Written by Gary Witt
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Monday, 15 August 2011 19:48 |
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Close to 200 people who have Ohio concealed handgun licenses gathered on Saturday August 13 at the Columbus Baptist Temple in North Columbus to take four hours of additional training that will allow them to apply for a Utah concealed carry license. The course was taught by Bobby Diaz. Three OFCC volunteers, Mark Rodgers, Mike Schmieg and Gary Witt volunteered their time to help with administrative matters.
Upon signing in, students received a packet with an application, fingerprint card, CD, an OFCC wallet card and several other items. Fingerprints are required to be submitted with the application and students had the choice of being fingerprinted by an independent service there or taking the card to a police department for fingerprints. Most people opted to have their fingerprints taken there and the line moved quickly.
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Written by Daniel White
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Sunday, 07 August 2011 12:28 |
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Saturday evening in Skyway, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, what is being reported as a dispute over drugs ended with one man shot several times and another in the custody of an armed citizen who was nearby.
Sources report the incident occured shortly before 9pm near the parking lot of a US Bank branch where a citizen with a concealed carry license was using an ATM. After the shooting, the armed citizen drew his firearm and performed a citizen's arrest including handcuffing the shooter.
"That's very unusual, very surprising, and not recommended," said King County sheriff's Sergeant John Urquhart, presumably of the act of handcuffing the suspect. "This guy did a great job, but we don't recommend doing that. You certainly do that at your own risk."
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Sunday, 07 August 2011 11:05 |
Back in March of this year a true grassroots movement in our Discussion Forums was quite successful in mailing an OFCC letter to practically every known law enforcement agency in Ohio to explain the facts behind Open Carry.
Based on the success of that event we're going to try it again, this time using the power of hundreds of volunteers to distribute a similar letter to law enforcement regarding the changes to Ohio Law that go into effect September 30th.
The three page letter can be found here: Letter To Law Enforcement - Changes to Ohio Law
This letter is intentionally designed so that our branding (name, logo, etc) do not appear on the actual second and third page. Our intent is to get agencies to hang this material up on billboards, discuss it in roll call, or otherwise distribute it to police officers as formal training. In order to get a number of people to distribute this letter without duplicating each other's efforts we're going to again use the Discussion Forums as a means to organize this specific endeavor. Agencies are going to be tackled on a per-county basis and assigned to volunteers who step forward.
If you'd like to help here is what we're asking: Print the letter out without modifying it and stuff it into envelopes and put proper postage on those envelopes. Then, print off address labels for the county of your choosing and mail those letters. Once complete, report back that you've finish that county.
Chuck in the forums is going to coordinate county assignments and maintain what is or isn't completed.
Coordination of the project will take place in this discussion thread on our forums - you must be logged in to post there. (Creating an account is free) |
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