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Dateline: CINCINNATI A state judge on Thursday blocked police from enforcing Ohio's decades- old ban on concealed weapons, ruling the law violated the state constitution.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman said the law effectively barred people from protecting themselves.

"The very thought a potential victim might possess a firearm deters that element of our society that cares nothing about laws or human

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