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Northwood Police Chief Changes Story, Still Has a Weak Plot |
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
In response to OFCC's announcement of an Open Carry Walk in Northwood, Northwood police chief Thomas Cairl told The Press that not only do they have "a witness not affiliated with police" who supports their version of events, but that open carry wasn't the issue they had with Mr. Farbrother.
Police Chief Thomas Cairl was at the shop at the time with his family and called on-duty officers when he saw Mr. Farbrother wearing a holstered weapon the chief says was about "85 percent covered" by a vest...
...Chief Cairl said he respects the organization's right to demonstrate and said members will be welcome to hold their gathering in the city but insists Mr. Farbrother's firearm was partially covered.
"His riding vest was covering everything but the tip of the barrel," he said. "If he was openly carrying that night I would have to say we're at fault. But he wasn't."
After scouring the Ohio Revised Code, I can find no mention of an 85% rule that delineates between what is openly carrying and what is concealed carrying. However, were I to find such a standard of measure, would that mean that the chief is admitting to causing this incident over the fact that Mr. Farbrother was carrying a concealed firearm (which he does have a license to do)? Or, does the fact that the chief saw 15% of the firearm mean that it was, in fact, openly carried and that he will now admit they were at fault? |
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Updated Concealed Carry Publication |
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Ohio Law & Politics
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Written by Daniel White
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
The Ohio Attorney General's office has made available to new Concealed Carry Law publication through their website. This publication is required reading for all CHL applicants, and is available free of charge.
This edition of the publication also includes notice of the legality of open carry on page 18.
Open Carry
Ohio’s concealed carry laws do not regulate "open" carry of firearms.
If you openly carry, use caution. The open carry of firearms is a legal
activity in Ohio.
This will hopefully help cut down on the numerous incidents OFCC has become aware of in the past few months of citizens being harassed for open carry of firearms by law enforcement officers who are unaware of the legality of that act. OFCC thanks the AG office for this first step towards fixing this problem. |
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CCW In National Parks Moves Forward |
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National Law & Politics
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Written by Daniel White
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 18-5 on Thursday to approve a bill by Sen. Jim DeMint which would allow people to carry firearms for personal protection in national parks and wildlife refuges if state law allows it, ending a 25 year ban.
“The purpose of this bill is to protect innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks,” DeMint said.
National Forests already allow firearms if state law permits them, and this would bring the parks and wildlife refuges in line with the Forests.
Opponents of the bill claim it will make the parks more dangerous and encourage poaching, despite that fact that neither of those claims have come true in National Forests, State Parks, or anywhere else law abiding citizens are allowed to protect themselves with guns.
This bill will now be moving forward in the process to becoming law, though it still has a ways to go. |
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Handbook of Ohio Firearms Laws Now Available! |
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Misc
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Written by Daniel White
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
The Handbook of Ohio Firearms Laws is an everyday reference to Ohio’s gun laws, written for the general public by Ohio attorney, and OFCC member, Sean M. Culley. OFCC has purchased a limited quantity of these books which have been signed by the author and are now available for purchase in the OFCC store.
The Handbook provides a wealth of information that is detailed enough to meet the needs of law enforcement, firearms instructors and legal professionals; but that is presented clearly and in a conversational style that anyone can understand and follow. Culley presents so much information on each topic that the Handbook is a necessary and useful reference for everyone ranging from firearms novices with the most basic questions to veteran gun owners in need of more advanced analysis.
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Written by Daniel White
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
In what seems to be a growing trend of restaurants being targeted by robbers, a Columbus Dairy Queen was robbed yesterday at around 8:30pm.
After hitting a 16-year-old cashier in the head with his gun, the robber confronted the manager and shot him in the stomach before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash. The manager is currently hospitalized in stable condition.
It is not being reported if either the manager or the cashier resisted, but this is yet another example of criminals having no concept of the value of human life and no reservations about shooting unarmed victims.
With the increased incidents of restaurants being targeted and employees and customers being threatened, injured, or killed, it is time to amend Ohio law to remove restaurants which serve alcohol (regardless of whether you are actually drinking any alcoholic beverages) from the list of places where CHL holders are disarmed. Forty-one states have no such total prohibition, and Ohio should join them. |
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The Knox Report
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Written by Jeff Knox
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
The Knox Report
From the Firearms Coalition
(September 10, 2008) “A person does not have the right under the Second Amendment, or under any other provision of the Constitution, to possess a machinegun. A person does not have a right, under the Second Amendment, or under any other provision of the Constitution, to possess a rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches that the person has not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.” (Instructions to the jury in U.S. v. Gilbert)
In the months since the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, there have been over a dozen rulings by judges referencing the case and virtually all of them used Heller to support limitations on firearms rights. The degree to which they used the opinion ranged from simply rebutting an appellant’s erroneous claim that Heller nullifies the law under which they were convicted, to actually using the language in the Heller opinion to support restrictions as constitutional. In U.S. v. Gilbert, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit did both.
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OFCC To Hold Open Carry Walk in Northwood |
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
Ohioans For Concealed Carry will be holding an open carry walk in Northwood, Ohio (Wood County) to express our dissatisfaction with the findings of an internal affairs investigation regarding the treatment of one of our members after an encounter with Northwood Police.
Back in early July, OFCC member Edwin Farbrother was detained and harassed by Northwood Police for legally openly carrying a firearm at Netty's Ice Cream Shop. The police had been called to the scene by the chief of police, who was off-duty and at the shop.
After arriving, officers began berating Farbrother for openly carrying a gun where children were present. They told Farbrother he was breaking the law by carrying his firearm openly. One officer insisted that if they were responding to a burglar alarm and saw Farbrother carrying a firearm that he would be the first one they would "take down," and that he risked getting "popped". They then informed him that they were letting him go, but if he did it again he would be arrested and they would let the judge sort out who was right and who was wrong. During the course of the incident, Farbrother’s drivers license was broken by one of the officers.
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