Good Week for Preemption Law, Bad Week for Home Rule
In a 5-2 decision on Dec. 29, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Buckeye state’s preemption law while shooting down the concept of home rule: the principle in the Ohio Constitution...
View ArticleMore Ohioans Than Ever Are Licensed to Carry
That’s the second highest total since the permit system began seven years ago. Another 13,544 Ohioans renewed permits in 2010. In 2009, a record 56,691 new permits were issued in The Buckeye State....
View ArticleDespite Economy, Ohio, U.S. Gun Sales Defy Gravity
Ohioans may not be dining out as much or buying new refrigerators and pickup tracks, but recently released figures from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) indicate they are...
View ArticleSurge in Ohio CHLs Continues
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office reported county sheriff’s offices in the state issued nearly 12,000 concealed handgun permits during the final three months of 2011, making it the busiest...
View ArticleOhio CCW Permits Soar, But Buckeyes Still Trail Neighbors
Ohio sheriffs issued 16,823 CCW permits in the first three months of 2012, reflecting a 40.3 percent increase over the first quarter of 2010. The Buckeye State’s concealed-carry law went into effect in...
View ArticleOhio Issues Record Number of Concealed-Carry Licenses in 2012
Statistics released by the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine Feb. 27 indicate 64,650 new concealed-carry licenses and 12,160 renewal licenses were issued in Ohio last year, for a...
View ArticleOhio CHL Permits Have Historic First-Quarter Spike
The 37,761 concealed handgun licenses (CHL) issued in Ohio in the first three months of 2013 were nearly double the number issued in the same period last year, Attorney General Mike DeWine reported May...
View ArticlePro-Suppressor Legislation Advancing
In recent days, individual measures to legalize the use of sound and flash suppressors for hunting were advanced by lawmakers in North Carolina, became law in North Dakota and were introduced in Ohio....
View ArticleOhio Eclipses Annual CHL Record With a Quarter to Go
With its third quarter statistics report released Nov. 15, the number of new concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) issued in Ohio through the first nine months of 2013 has already eclipsed the 2012 record...
View ArticleOhio: Major Gun-Rights Provision Signed into Law
On Dec. 19, Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a bill expanding gun rights in Ohio to include the use of suppressors by hunters, concealed-carry permit requirement reforms and mandatory shall-certify rules...
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