Tremendous Victory for the Second Amendment in Ohio

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:36:45 GMT  <== RKBA ==> 

David Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy - good news from Ohio. [geekwitha.45]

... the Ohio Senate voted 21-12 to override Republican Governor Bob Taft's veto of a bill to reform Ohio's gun laws. The Ohio House had previously voted 71-21 to override the veto of House Bill 347. Because both houses achieved the necessary 3/5 majority, the bill will become law in 90 days.

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The bill makes a variety of changes to Ohio's Shall Issue law for concealed handgun licenses. It explicitly prohibits local governments from creating no-carry zones, except in places where state law already forbids carryings. The bill also removes the requirement that concealed carry permitees must, when driving, keep the handgun in plain view in the car, or in a locked container.

Even more significantly, the bill eliminates over 80 anti-gun local ordinances, including bans on cosmetically-incorrect self-loading firearms (so-called "assault weapons") in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati. Like the vast majority of states, Ohio does not have an "assault weapon" ban, but Ohio has had more cities with local bans than has any other non-ban state.

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In practical effect, the Ohio bill is the most significant roll-back of gun control that has ever been enacted by a state. Preemption laws swept the country in the 1980s, after Morton Grove, Illinois, banned handguns. In most state legislatures, the bills were intended to prevent future local gun bans, since there were few local bans that were in effect. I am not aware of any other state where a preemption law has wiped out so many local ordinances which were already on the books.

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Good for the politicians...

Submitted by mrjarrell on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:10:35 GMT

Now if they'll just make it easier and lawful for me to carry my firearms through their state on those occasions when I have to pass through. Ohio CCW holders can pass through and carry freely in my state, yet I face arrest in theirs....

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