Ohio Legislation

WKYC Investigator Tom Meyer falls short of the truth in report on felons obtaining hunting licenses

3:00pm Friday, May 31, 2013
by Larry S. Moore WKYC (NBC Cleveland) Investigator Tom Meyer screamed the headlines "Hundreds of convicted felons in Ohio -- many of them violent -- are getting state licenses to hunt, even though it's illegal for them to have guns..." . This is the latest alarmist reporting aimed at gun owners and hunters. It's the kind of reporting that we've come to expect - long on hype and short on real...

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:00am Monday, May 27, 2013
(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

Rep. Bob Hagan's gun control bill exposes impotence of "protection orders" and need for victim education

7:00am Thursday, May 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus State Representative Bob Hagan (D), who recently announced that his candidacy for U.S. Senate is grounded in his anger that Sen. Rob Portman (R) stood up for gun owners' constitutional rights in recent votes against gun control, has apparently figured out that support for gun control is his ticket to gaining media attention for his fledgling candidacy. This week, Hagan introduced...

Attorney General DeWine, Senator Hughes Announce Violent Career Criminal Act

7:00am Tuesday, April 30, 2013
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Ohio Senator Jim Hughes (R-Columbus) today announced new legislation aimed at reducing the number of gun crimes in the state of Ohio. They were joined by Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien, whose office has aggressively targeted violent gun crimes. "During my first year in office as Ohio's Attorney General, it became...

FOP fundraising letter conceals the organization's anti-gun agenda

7:00am Monday, April 29, 2013
by Larry S. Moore I received my annual copy of the Fraternal Order of Police fund-raising letter asking for my support. I've been ignoring these letters for close to twenty years now. I was about to unceremoniously deposit this one into File 13 when I thought maybe I should read it this time. My wife shook her head, noting that my political blood pressure doesn't need any help from the FOP. The...

State FOP proposes stripping ability of boards of education to arm school employees

7:00am Tuesday, April 09, 2013
by Chad D. Baus If there was any doubt left for Ohioans that the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is an anti-gun rights, anti-Second Amendment organization that cares more about protecting the jobs of its members than it does the very safety of our school children, it should be removed after they hear news that the FOP is pushing to strip the right of Boards of Education to arm staff to protect...

Do people have the right to own any semiautomatic rifle, magazine size? Yes

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, April 03, 2013
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. We, the people, have the constitutional right to own semiautomatic rifles and the standard-capacity magazines designed for those rifles. The plain words in the U.S. and Ohio constitutions establish this, so long as those words are given...

Headline: Castle Doctrine clears brothers of murder

8:00am Thursday, March 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WDTN (NBC Dayton) is reporting that Ohio's Castle Doctrine law helped two Clark county brothers to be found not guilty after they were prosecuted for defending their lives when attacked by an armed robber. From the article : Jordan and Anthony Hottenstein were found not guilty of murder Wednesday. Their lawyer, Richard Mayhall, successfully argued that the brothers had a right to...

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