Community Interest

Is advertising that customers and employees inside your business are defenseless really such a "safe" idea?

REQUIRED READING: Op-ed: The False Hope of Gun-Free Zones


The following list documents crimes committed in businesses posted with "no-guns" signs.

Woman Reports Rape At I-77 Rest Stop

Store on Do Not Patronize While Armed list robbed, clerk pistol-whipped

ANOTHER VICTIM ZONE ROBBERY: Gunman robs Fifth Third bank

FIVE: FirstMerit victim zone robbed again

70-year old woman assaulted/ carjacked in ''No-Weapons'' Kroger parking lot

Tale of Two Signs: Willoughby bank robbed; Middletown store welcomes CHL

THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK: Posted Mansfield business ''brutally'' robbed

Police Search For Waffle House Bandit

Tale of FOUR OH Cities: Three posted business robbed; Armed Toledo clerk defends

Workplace shooting at another ''No-guns allowed'' business

Attempted abduction: Armed criminal confronts mall employee at ''No-CCW'' mall

Double jeopardy: Bank robber passes TWO companies' ''No-Guns'' signs

AGAIN: ''Posted'' Fifth Third bank inside Kroger robbed

First Merit: Another armed robbery in ''gun-free'' bank

Man robs ''gun-free'' bank in Dayton high-rise

Another ''no-guns'' First Merit robbery; Branch once held OFCC's accounts

Attacked in workplace parking lot

Victim zone prohibitions fail to stop Ohio shootings

Dairy Queen employee stabbed

Middletown Fifth-Third bank latest ''no-guns'' business to be robbed

''No-Guns'' truck stop robbed at knife-point

VICTIM ZONES: Three Columbus Fifth Thirds robbed in same day

VICTIM ZONE: Mugging outside Blackburns Market

Armed robbery in ''gun free'' credit union

Two more ''No-guns'' banks robbed this week

Men armed with hammer rob ''no-guns'' gas station

CRIMINAL CASHES IN: One, possibly two more ''no-guns'' banks robbed

Police say [''no-guns''] gas station was robbed

FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise

Gunman takes cash from ''no-guns'' credit union

Election eve victim zone robbery in ''no guns'' bank

Fifth Third Bank robbery: not even the guards are armed

Kidnapping outside Toledo victim zone retailer

A Story of Arms in Three Ohio Victim Zones

Defenseless shopper robbed, carjacked after leaving store at ''no-guns'' Strip

STATE-OWNED VICTIM ZONE (again): Woman assaulted, robbed at rest stop

Kidnapped from a state-mandated victim zone

AGAIN: Man robs ''gun-free'' bank in Dayton high-rise

OhioCCW.org reader reports Victim Zone robbery

Gun shoved in mouth of employee in ''no-guns'' business

More armed criminals in state-mandated victim zones

Columbus nightclub: Disarmed CHL-holder watched helplessly as people died

''Man charged with shooting at bouncer''

CHL-holder stops attack in parking garage of ''no-guns'' hospital

State-mandated victim zone: Man fires handgun during bar robbery

Cincy police officer's firearm stolen from parking lot outside ''no-guns'' biz

Newspaper carrier raped on the job; her employer bans self-defense

Police say gunman robbed (no-guns) credit union

Armed men rob ''no-guns'' Fifth Third bank

Another man with a gun in ''no-guns'' Holland Oil station

Victim zone robbery: Another Family Dollar gets hit

Armed robbery at ''no-guns'' Bureau of Workers' Comp garage

Masked men with handguns rob ''no-guns'' First Merit

FBI: More bank robbers used guns in their crimes last year

MORE: State-mandated victim zone robberies

''Rob Me'' signs work wonders: Two more ''no guns'' banks hit at year-end

Spate of robberies at ''no-guns'' banks continues

TRAGEDY: Shots fired (again) at ''no-guns'' Fifth Third Bank

VICTIM ZONE: Police seek pair who robbed elderly man

THREE ''no-guns'' banks, and a customer in another, robbed around Ohio this week

Robberies in ''no-guns'' victim zones continue

Chillicothe: Armed man robs ''no-guns'' business

OFCC uncovers report of Fifth Third customer being robbed on exit from bank

Employee for ''no-guns'' newspaper carjacked outside work

''No-guns'' Prime Outlets Mall circulates composite of Retail Rapist

Workplace gun prohibitions = promises not kept

Fifth Third Victim Zone: Female Bank Robber Captured

Man shot in chest during robbery attempt in VZ parking lot

VICTIM ZONE: Thief cuts man, 79, during assault in hospital garage

Another elderly victim at ''no-guns'' business

Elderly female customer robbed outside Fifth Third bank

''Near riot'' at ''no-guns'' Dayton RTA hub

State-mandated victim zone: ''No-guns'' Columbus bar, defenseless patrons robbed

Owner of ''no-guns'' Dayton business angry about downtown violence

Victim zone double-whammy: Disarmed CHL-holder endures robbery & assault

Kidnapped at gunpoint from ''no-guns'' bowling alley, shot

State-mandated victim zone manager followed home, beaten, robbed

Elderly paper carrier for ''no-guns'' Toledo Blade savagely beaten

''No-guns'' Sparkle Market employee beaten, robbed of night deposit

Gun battle suspects arrested at ''no-guns'' Good Samaritan Hospital

''No-guns'' Lawrence Federal Savings Bank robbed at gunpoint

Report: Cops suggest posting of ''no-guns'' signs in store; Store robbed

Inmate flees ''no-guns'' hospital after ''nearly taking life'' of officer

Red Lake High - Another in the sad legacy of victim zone tragedies

Man with two guns arrested in ''no-guns'' Ohio U. library

Warning issued after robbery of night deposit at ''no-guns'' Fifth-Third

Last week: Five Ohio stores in ''no-guns'' UDF chain robbed!

State-mandated victim-zones: College student gang-raped

Woman carjacked at ''no-guns'' workplace

Armed robber disarms armed cop in ''no-guns'' credit union

Two more ''no-guns'' UDFs suffer armed robberies

Government-mandated victim zone attacks

Police Kill Man After Wife Murdered At “No-guns” Hospital

School/ College Victim Zone Shootings

(No-guns) News station reports (no-guns) grocery store robbery

Victim Zone: UC Student Punched, Robbed On Campus

Victim Zone: Help sought to solve robbery at bar

Purse snatching-carjacking-kidnapping at ''no-guns'' Dot's Market

Beer truck driver robbed of money outside ''no-guns'' IGA

''No-guns'' UDF robberies continue

More victims of crime in places where guns are banned

Man charged after two UDF robberies and high-speed chase

One arrested after armed robbery at ''no-guns'' bank

Two ''no-guns'' Ohio businesses suffer robberies

Another armed robbery in a ''no-guns'' United Dairy Farmers store

Riverside "no-guns" UDF robbed

Double Homicide in "No Guns" Toledo Convenience Store

''No Guns'' UDF robberies becoming routine

Assault at ''No Guns'' UDF

State Mandated Victim Zone Robbed

Another No Guns Fifth-Third Bank Robbed

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