OH: CCW bill passes, list of new changes

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Linky Dinky

CONCEALED-WEAPONS LAW What’s been changed



Published:Monday, September 8, 2008

Some changes to Ohio’s concealed-weapons law taking effect today:

Permit holders can now keep a gun hidden in a car as long as they’re carrying it in a secure holster. The law previously required the gun to be in plain sight.

Permit holders may bring a gun onto school grounds as long as they are in a car picking up or dropping off a child.

Landlords no longer can prohibit licensed concealed weapons permit holders from having their weapons in apartments.

Allows people without a license to carry concealed weapons in their homes as long as they aren’t engaged in illegal activity.

Decreases the penalty for failure to notify a police officer of one’s permit status when stopped if the officer already received the information through a license plate check.

Allows holders of valid liquor licenses who are also concealed weapons permit holders to carry a hidden gun on their premises.

Includes the presumption that a resident who hurts or kills an intruder acted in self-defense or in defense of another if the intruder has entered unlawfully or without permission.

Source: AP Research

[mekender]

looks like good changes to me

[308Mike]

looks like good changes to me

Yup - I agree. Some of those changes sounded pretty common-sense, like having a concealed permit and having to keep the gun visible, WTF was up with that?? I'm glad it got changed. I wonder what moron made it like that in the first place?

September 8th seems like a strange date to have laws become effective.

[randy]

Linky Dinky

CONCEALED-WEAPONS LAW What’s been changed



Published:Monday, September 8, 2008

Some changes to Ohio’s concealed-weapons law taking effect today:

Permit holders can now keep a gun hidden in a car as long as they’re carrying it in a secure holster. The law previously required the gun to be in plain sight.

Yeah, like two years previously. Since Gov Shaft's veto got overridded and went into effect (April 07 IIRC), you have not had to open carry a weapon in a vehicle. This a probably a garble of the fact that you had to
1. Have it in a holster on your person (but can be concealed)
2. Have it locked in your glove compartmetn
3. Could have it in a closed container, and that container had to be in plain sight.

Source: AP Research

Well, there's your problem [/mythbusters]


For a more credible source check out Ohioans For Concealed Carry