What does this mean for pro-gun Ohioans? It means that the statewide preemption of firearms laws we fought for, and now embodied in ORC 9.68, finally has some teeth. It means that every city in the State of Ohio now knows that not only will they lose if they try to uphold their anti-gun ordinances but also that they will have to pay the legal fees of the pro-gun groups who fight them. [More]
Couldn't happen to a nicer place...(Many of those embedded links will no longer work. I just don't have time to go back in and try to redirect, but if you're interested, do what I'd do and run them through
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This dance is nowhere near done. The city simply continues doing what they were doing before, daring somebody to sue them. If someone takes the effort to sue them, their lawyers throw up a porcupine defense, saying that the law is unconstitutional, the city has some special protection like charterness, etc., etc. This buys them a couple more years of in-your-face to gun owners. If they finally lose, then the taxpayers of the city pay all the relevant fines and so on. Tucson showed us all how this dance goes.
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