FLASH: SB184 assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that Senator Steve Buehrer's Castle Doctrine legislation, which concerns protecting crime victims and restoring the presumption of innocence to those forced to act in self-defense, has received a committee assignment.

Click here to download this important three-page bill.

The following is a list of the members of the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice, their status as co-sponsors of this legislation, their previous record on firearms-related legislation, etc...

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice:

Republican
Grendell, Chair - SB184 co-sponsor, previous endorsee
Clancy, Vice Chair - SB184 co-sponsor, previous endorsee
Faber - SB184 co-sponsor, previous endorsee
Schaffer - SB184 co-sponsor, previous endorsee
Austria - Voted for HB12, Ohio's concealed carry law and HB347, Ohio's firearms law preemption bill.
Stivers - Voted for HB12, Ohio's concealed carry law. Voted against HB347, Ohio's firearms law preemption bill.

Democrat
Mason, Ranking Minority Member - Voted against HB12, Ohio's concealed carry law. Did not vote on HB347, Ohio's firearms law preemption bill.
Smith S - Voted against HB12, Ohio's concealed carry law. Voted against HB269, Apprentice Hunting License bill. Did not vote on HB347, Ohio's firearms law preemption bill.
Sawyer - Former U.S. Congressmen with an anti-gun voting record.

Please take a moment to contact President Bill Harris and thank him for assigning this bill, and encourage him to continue making SB184 a priority.

Telephone: 614-466-8086
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Committee Chairman Tim Grendell can be expected to be a strong leader for SB184 in his committee. Sen. Grendell sports a long history of pro-gun/ pro-hunting reform votes, and voted to override a Governor Taft on House Bill 347 in December 2006. He has also expressed his frustration with those who call themselves "moderate Republicans", including the anti-gun Betty Montgomery, who quit her primary race for governor to oppose Grendell in the race for attorney general, which she then went on to lose to pro-gun Democrat Marc Dann.

In a February 2006 fund-raising letter, Grendell noted that "I have a 100% voting record for Second Amendment issues. The Gun Owners of America and the Buckeye Firearms Association, who both recently endorsed me, know that too."

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