Ohio Legislation

AG Dann: Handful of CHL applicants slip through mental health background checks

11:00pm Friday, April 27, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann (D) announced today that at least some Ohioans applying for concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) since 2004 have not been properly screened to determine if they have been found mentally incompetent by a judge, or involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Such screens are required by state law. Mr. Dann, who initiated a check of the state’s...

NBC Cleveland: City Police do not support Mayor's defiance of state law

12:10am Thursday, March 15, 2007
Toledo and Columbus no longer enforcing failed local gun control laws On Wednesday, March 14, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announced that he would defy the will of the Ohio General Assembly as expressed in HB347 - legislation which made all firearms laws uniform across the Buckeye State. At a press conference staged at the Police Briefing Room, Jackson told reporters that he will ignore state...

Go-it-alone: Financially-challenged City of Cleveland sues over preemption

9:51am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Today the City of Cleveland filed a declaratory judgment against the State of Ohio to fight the enactment of Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Section 9.68. Click here to download the press release. (.pdf) ORC Section 9.68: "(A) The individual right to keep and bear arms,being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally...

Wednesday, March 14: HB347 takes effect today

12:15am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The long awaited end to one of the dumbest provisions of Ohio's original concealed carry law is here. For the first time in the almost three years since Ohio's concealed carry law took effect, CHL-holders are no longer required to carry their holstered firearm in "plain sight" while in a motor vehicle. The unpopular, unsafe requirement was struck from Ohio's law by HB347, a bill which became law...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Endorsees pack Senate Judiciary Comm. on Crim. Justice

12:05am Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Buckeye Firearms Association has learned that five of our former Endorsees have been appointed, along with two other pro-gun legislators to fill the nine-member Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice, where any firearms law reform bills are likely to be given consideration. Click on 'Read More' for complete details. align="right"> Senate President Bill Harris (pictured in a 2005...

HB347 a nice start to CCW Cleanup

12:10am Wednesday, January 10, 2007
By Chad D. Baus When HB347 was first introduced in September 2005, the Ohio media gave almost total focus on a provision which sought to limit journalist access to CHL-holder records. Once that provision was removed and placed in another piece of legislation, very little time was spent by the media to inform Ohioans about the many other improvements to Ohio law contained in HB347. Although it had...

SIGNED: General Assembly's first attempt at Media Access Loophole fix

12:59pm Thursday, December 28, 2006
Taft concern for Home Rule evaporates; HB9 signed into law By Chad D. Baus In a surprisingly brief article (especially given how hard the media has pushed for this bill for the past two years), the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Governor Taft has signed House Bill 9 into law. From the story: Substitute House Bill 9 requires that all public officials or their designees attend training...

Passage of Ohio's CCW Law reform was past due

12:10am Thursday, December 28, 2006
The following commentary was recently published in the Wilmington News Journal. By Tim Inwood Back in September I wrote a guest editorial about the Sixth District Court ruling in the Bruce Beatty case. The ruling concerned the city of Toledo prosecuting Bruce Beatty for carrying a firearm in a municipal park. Toledo had prohibited carrying handguns in parks despite the fact the State Attorney...

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