Bill would allow Ohioans to carry concealed firearms with no permit, training [More]Funny, the pantie-wringers at The Dispatch aren't ranting about permits and training for any other rights.
Please spread the word on this. If you're an Ohio gun owner, please contact your rep.
I note the "Only Ones" from the FOP and Sheriffs' Assoc. seem to think we work for them, and I expect no shortage of Bloombergian-funded "blood in the streets!" hysteria as this advances, but it's been done elsewhere, most recently in Kansas, and if Ohio gun owners can't make it happen here, it will be because not enough of them want it badly enough.
I know there has been an historic leadership schism between Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Buckeye Firearms Association*. Both are supporting this. Pick the group that appeals to you most and help them help you.
I'll have more to say about contacting reps. within a week and maybe sooner.
*See comment below from Mr. Noice. I'll invite BFA to respond.
UPDATE: BFA responds.
4 comments:
Buckeye Firearms Association is supporting this?
Then why did their legislative director say the following?:
"Ken Hanson, legislative director of the Buckeye Firearms Association, said Ohio isn't ready for concealed carry without permits — a law that a few states have. Buckeye Firearms Association wasn't consulted before the bill was introduced, he added.
"It would be great," Hanson said of concealed carry without permits. "But the problem is we have already circulated our legislative priorities, and this bill has no chance of passage this session."
http://ux.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/2015/04/07/bill-allow-concealed-carry-without-permit/25423781/
I was going by the Irvine quotes in the article -- I'll post an addendum directing people to your comment.
I hesitate to ask, but I wonder what your Governor has to say about this -- would he sign a Con Carry bill?
Saying we support something (which Hanson did) and observing that it has no chance in passing this General Assembly (which Hanson also did) are not mutually exclusive positions. Considering that the Ohio legislature has not even been willing to make it easier for licensed persons to pick up children at school and store a firearm in their personal vehicle at work, or to allow victims of crime who defend themselves the same 'innocent until proven' guilty benefit we have everywhere else in the Ohio Revised Code - and considering that we had to move from 4 hours training to 8 hours just to get our last bill through the Senate - I think it's safe to say we're a ways away from this becoming law in Ohio.
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