Ohio Legislation

Concealed carry - Why the uproar?

7:00am Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson April 8, 2012, marked the anniversary of a law that affects the lives of more than 270,000 Buckeyes. Ohio's concealed-handgun license law turned 8 years old on that Sunday afternoon. Notably absent from the festivities were...

Ohio concealed handgun licenses numbers on the rise, but opponents of reforms remain despite success of program

7:00am Friday, April 27, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that in the eight years since Ohio passed a concealed weapons law, county sheriffs have issued 296,588 concealed handgun licenses, with more than half of those coming since President Barack Obama was elected. Despite the obvious popularity and success of the law, the DDN provides quotes from local law enforcement bureaucrats who are expressing...

SB332: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun?

7:00am Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Editor's Note: The article below was originally published on June 17, 2008, about Senate Bill 348, introduced by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). That bill died at the end of the 127th General Assembly. Kearney reintroduced the bill again in 2009, as SB49, and we again published this article by way of response, on February 12, 2009. SB49 died at the end of the 128th General Assembly. But the necessity...

HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization) assigned to House State Government and Elections Committee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that HB495, introduced in late March by Representative Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) to reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend toward making Ohio law similar to other states, has received a committee assignment.

Buckeye Firearms Association works with governor's office to protect gun owners on drug trafficking bill

3:00pm Tuesday, April 17, 2012
by Jim Irvine Senate Bill 305, introduced to combat hidden compartments in vehicles used to transport illegal drugs, is not a "gun bill." However, as with any law, SB305 could have unintended consequences for gun owners who use safes and compartments to secure their firearms in their vehicles. As a pro-gun group, we view our narrow mission as protecting firearm rights. When we made Governor John...

DeWine plans to strengthen Ohio gun laws

3:00pm Wednesday, April 04, 2012
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. By Greg Sowinski LIMA - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Tuesday he will announce a plan later this month to strengthen Ohio's gun laws targeting the criminals who are the real problem behind gun violence that affects cities such as Lima. "We have done a lot of research and what we have found is...

Representative Terry Johnson introduces HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization)

by Jim Irvine
3:22pm Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Representative Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) has introduced HB495, a bill designed to reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend toward making Ohio law similar to other states. Currently, the gun laws in the Ohio Revised Code contain a number of ambiguities, and a number of "poison pill" provisions that have created confusion for law-abiding...

Important Pro-Gun Legislation to be Introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives

7:00am Friday, March 16, 2012
Please contact your state representative NOW! by Ken Hanson State Representative Terry Johnson (HD-89) is circulating a letter inviting fellow legislators to co-sponsor an important bill he will soon be introducing to address several problems with current gun laws by: Establishing an automatic reciprocity between Ohio and other states that have automatic reciprocity for their concealed handgun...

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