The future of OFCC

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Re: The future of OFCC

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Chuck wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:05 pm
You realize, of course, that you just described BFA.

Long before I came into the picture, OFCC brass decided they didn't want to pursue the fund raising model that paid lobbyists require.
BFA is still here though, but we gone. And for at least the last ten years, if local media here talked to somebody about gun rights stuff in Columbus, it was BFA. Joe Eaton most of the time. A couple reporters I knew had zero awareness of OFCC for the last decade plus.

Early on I offered to be the OFCC spokesmouth for SW Ohio, but the suits wanted tight reins kept on anything like that. Hell, the original VP berated me as though I was a child for bringing nametags to the Picnic.
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There is no CHL in OH without OFCC.

The singular focus back early this century was making OH CHL a reality.

They did it.

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When I don't like being at some place, I just leave. I like it here.
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carmen fovozzo wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:12 pm When I don't like being at some place, I just leave. I like it here.
^^^ This ^^^ is why the long march through the institutions worked and why "cancel culture" has damaged our liberty so.

We (reasonable people with the better argument) generally run. The crazy crybullies stay and fight. Thankfully, OFCC stood and fought against so many governors and other forces aligned against RKBA (to include some NRA/BFA operatives).

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Is it not time to do a post mortem on OFCC? Is that not the point of this post?

I'm not attacking anyone personally. I've sung the praises and given the flowers where appropriate.

I'd like to hear from Chuck / Jeff or other leaders regarding where they think OFCC fell short and what they may have done differently -if they had to do it over again. Granting a lack of volunteers, what would you suggest attempting (to future leadership)?

I hope we can all agree that it's not ideal to fold up the tent after certain primary objectives have been achieved.
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Brian D. wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:41 am ... Hell, the original VP berated me as though I was a child for bringing nametags to the Picnic.
I remember that. What an idiot.
Yes, I do believe in open carry. An openly armed man is clear in his intentions. Concealed carriers are sneaks and skulkers and elitist, boot licking, political contribution making, running dog lackies of The Man. <wink> (thx grumpycoconut - OpenCarry.org)

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Re: The future of OFCC

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Before I got booted it was a fight to get an open carry topic on this forum. And open carry is the only God given right this government recognizes. Constitutional carry is still a privilege. Until the USSC emphatically makes clear that conceal carry is a right, the fight is still on. And the Bruen ruling is just the beginning. The 1968 Gun Control Act is the next to be axed. The fight has just begun.

This whole gun rights fight is part of the big picture. This country is sitting on the brink of collapse. We are in a fight of our lives. And we have to quit being nice guys. Being nice guys doesn't work.

Quote Heller:
At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford). When used with “arms,” however, the term has a meaning that refers to carrying for a particular purpose—confrontation. In Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998), in the course of analyzing the meaning of “carries a firearm” in a federal criminal statute, JUSTICE GINSBURG wrote that "surely a most familiar meaning is, as the Constitution’s Second Amendment . . . indicates: ‘wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.’” Id., at 143 (dissenting opinion) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 214 (6th ed. 1998)). We think that JUSTICE GINSBURG accurately captured the natural meaning of “bear arms.” Although the phrase implies that the carrying of the weapon is for the purpose of “offensive or defensive action,” it in no way connotes participation in a structured military organization.

From our review of founding-era sources, we conclude that this natural meaning was also the meaning that “bear arms” had in the 18th century.
Now we need the court to drive this home; conceal carry is a God given right.
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Bearable wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:19 am Before I got booted it was a fight to get an open carry topic on this forum. And open carry is the only God given right this government recognizes. Constitutional carry is still a privilege. Until the USSC emphatically makes clear that conceal carry is a right, the fight is still on. And the Bruen ruling is just the beginning. The 1968 Gun Control Act is the next to be axed. The fight has just begun.

This whole gun rights fight is part of the big picture. This country is sitting on the brink of collapse. We are in a fight of our lives. And we have to quit being nice guys. Being nice guys doesn't work.

Quote Heller:
At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford). When used with “arms,” however, the term has a meaning that refers to carrying for a particular purpose—confrontation. In Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998), in the course of analyzing the meaning of “carries a firearm” in a federal criminal statute, JUSTICE GINSBURG wrote that "surely a most familiar meaning is, as the Constitution’s Second Amendment . . . indicates: ‘wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.’” Id., at 143 (dissenting opinion) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 214 (6th ed. 1998)). We think that JUSTICE GINSBURG accurately captured the natural meaning of “bear arms.” Although the phrase implies that the carrying of the weapon is for the purpose of “offensive or defensive action,” it in no way connotes participation in a structured military organization.

From our review of founding-era sources, we conclude that this natural meaning was also the meaning that “bear arms” had in the 18th century.
Now we need the court to drive this home; conceal carry is a God given right.
Ginsberg wrote this? Why? Wasn't she one of the most notorious anti gunners on the court?
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Re: The future of OFCC

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M-Quigley wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:57 am
Bearable wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:19 am Before I got booted it was a fight to get an open carry topic on this forum. And open carry is the only God given right this government recognizes. Constitutional carry is still a privilege. Until the USSC emphatically makes clear that conceal carry is a right, the fight is still on. And the Bruen ruling is just the beginning. The 1968 Gun Control Act is the next to be axed. The fight has just begun.

This whole gun rights fight is part of the big picture. This country is sitting on the brink of collapse. We are in a fight of our lives. And we have to quit being nice guys. Being nice guys doesn't work.

Quote Heller:
At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford). When used with “arms,” however, the term has a meaning that refers to carrying for a particular purpose—confrontation. In Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998), in the course of analyzing the meaning of “carries a firearm” in a federal criminal statute, JUSTICE GINSBURG wrote that "surely a most familiar meaning is, as the Constitution’s Second Amendment . . . indicates: ‘wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.’” Id., at 143 (dissenting opinion) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 214 (6th ed. 1998)). We think that JUSTICE GINSBURG accurately captured the natural meaning of “bear arms.” Although the phrase implies that the carrying of the weapon is for the purpose of “offensive or defensive action,” it in no way connotes participation in a structured military organization.

From our review of founding-era sources, we conclude that this natural meaning was also the meaning that “bear arms” had in the 18th century.
Now we need the court to drive this home; conceal carry is a God given right.
Ginsberg wrote this? Why? Wasn't she one of the most notorious anti gunners on the court?
Anti-gunner or not, she is being honest to the meaning of "carry" as it applies to "Carry arms or weapons." To carry on your person in your clothes/pocket versus about your person, meaning in a satchel or purse; not what the opinion ruled. The opinion ruled that "Carry arms or weapon" is not limited, but expansive. Meaning the term carry extends to a person who knowingly possesses and conveys firearms in a vehicle, including in the locked glove compartment or trunk of a car, which the person accompanies. Both Scalia and Souter joined her in her dissent.

Link to Muscarello v. United States: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federa ... 5/case.pdf

I think Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998) is bad case law since Heller, McDonald and especially Bruen.
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Bearable wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:36 pm
M-Quigley wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:57 am
Bearable wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:19 am Before I got booted it was a fight to get an open carry topic on this forum. And open carry is the only God given right this government recognizes. Constitutional carry is still a privilege. Until the USSC emphatically makes clear that conceal carry is a right, the fight is still on. And the Bruen ruling is just the beginning. The 1968 Gun Control Act is the next to be axed. The fight has just begun.

This whole gun rights fight is part of the big picture. This country is sitting on the brink of collapse. We are in a fight of our lives. And we have to quit being nice guys. Being nice guys doesn't work.

Quote Heller:

Now we need the court to drive this home; conceal carry is a God given right.
Ginsberg wrote this? Why? Wasn't she one of the most notorious anti gunners on the court?
Anti-gunner or not, she is being honest to the meaning of "carry" as it applies to "Carry arms or weapons." To carry on your person in your clothes/pocket versus about your person, meaning in a satchel or purse; not what the opinion ruled. The opinion ruled that "Carry arms or weapon" is not limited, but expansive. Meaning the term carry extends to a person who knowingly possesses and conveys firearms in a vehicle, including in the locked glove compartment or trunk of a car, which the person accompanies. Both Scalia and Souter joined her in her dissent.

Link to Muscarello v. United States: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federa ... 5/case.pdf

I think Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998) is bad case law since Heller, McDonald and especially Bruen.
I agree that she is being honest, I'm just not used to hearing honesty from most anti gun types. For most of them I've heard or read, honesty and facts that don't advance their agenda tend to get ignored.
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I moved out of Ohio in 2011 but still spend a lot of time reading the posts on this site.
I got my first CHL in 2004 and have carried ever since even here in Virginia.
(I DO, of course, have a Virginia CHL.

I would be willing to contribute some cash help keep this site viable.

BTW I was on the original OFCC mailing list which morphed into this site.
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