OHIO LEGISLATURE OVERRIDES GOVERNOR'S VETO (Of State Preemption Law)

NRAILA Alert ^ | 12/17/06 | NRAILA Staff

[epow]

Governor Bob Taft's (R) veto of crucial statewide preemption legislation has been overridden by the state legislature. This was the first time in 29 years that the Ohio legislature overturned a Governor's veto. On Thursday, December 7, the State House voted 71-21 to override House Bill 347. On Tuesday, December 12, the State Senate also voted (21-12) to override the veto, with three Democratic Senators voting in favor of the measure.

Championed by Representative Jim Aslanides (R-94), HB 347 will create statewide preemption ensuring that firearm laws are uniform throughout the state. Currently, 43 states have similar laws. Passing statewide preemption eliminates problems for gun owners who have been unduly burdened by local ordinances, such as the Columbus "assault weapons ban." In addition, this legislation will correct a number of problems that have surfaced during the past year for Right-to-Carry permit holders. The most common complaint for license holders has been the "plain sight" requirement in a motor vehicle. HB 347 will eliminate this requirement.

To view how your State Legislator voted on the veto override, please visit www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2510. Please take a moment to contact your State Representative at (614) 466-3357, and State Senator at (614) 466-4900, and thank them for defending your Second Amendment rights. If they opposed the veto override, please politely remind them you will remember their vote come election time.

A special thank you to all NRA members for your calls and e-mails in support of HB 347 during the legislative session!

[epow]

How does Taft get by with calling himself a Republican when he appears to be more liberal on many issues than many OH Democrats would be under the same circumstances? There had to be quite a few Democrats voting to override his veto of this very good bill or it would have been sustained.

[Libertina]

For having so many good grass roots Republicans across the US, we sure scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to our elected (so-called) "Repubicans."

[AdvisorB]

Oliver Cromwell could very well be directing this at the hapless Taft if Cromwell were alive today:

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately...Depart I say; and let us be done with you. In the name of God, Go!

[Recon Dad]

Well said. When we find out that a leader is a closet liberal what do we do. Keep reelecting him, why, because he's a Republican.
Well in the last election we saw the con game come to an end.

[Libertina]

Correct. I'm glad the likes of Lincoln Chaffee is gone - I want to know tha people on our side are on our side, not traitors to conservatism waiting to spring. (McCain) The problem I hate most about our side is its (seeming) weakness. The Democrat elite are insane, but they are not weak. They ruled Congress many times with their MINORITY.

[gruffwolf]

Great post... though it won't be popular with the hard-core, straight party folks on this site.

Of course people on the FAR right are almost as bad as people on the FAR left. They've got their blinders on and they refuse to see that times are changing for the rest of us. No more straight party BS, that's how we get @ss-clowns like McCain and Specter in positions where they can do a lot of damage.

From now on, we've got our eyes on our officials and if they don't live up to their promises, they are gone. It may take 10 years but we will take our party back from the liars and the weak.

In the end, we'll be stronger for it.

[Recon Dad]

You lips to God's ears!

[epow]

I was hoping that OH would pass an amendment this year to it's CCW law that would allow CC permits of other states to be honored in OH. If I understand the OH CCW law correctly, no other state's permit can be honored there even if that other state honors OH permits. I may not be 100% right on that point, but I do know that my GA permit is not honored in OH. I have to drive around OH by way of IN if I want to take a gun along whenever I drive to MI, when it would be nearer and faster to just stay on I-75 all the way.

Yeah, I know that under federal law I could lock my gun and ammunition in separate containers and keep it in the car's trunk through OH, but what good would that do me in an emergency situation if my gun is locked up and inaccessible?

[2harddrive]

GOOD! They shut that liberal with his litaney of lies DOWN! Sieg Heil with a Smile!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

So are you left or right of main-stream Republicans, far right being as bad as left?

The GOP has the same problem as the NRA, both are democratically directed while ignoring the fact that democracy is the rule of fools by fools. The USA is a Republic with legally limited democracy, not limited enough IMO.

And the NRA, the national reasonable-regulation asses that never met a compromise of rights that they didn't like, sucks. The NRA sucks the oxygen from advocacy. The NRA sucks the money from activism. The NRA sucks.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. Which part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?

[Currahee3-506]

Ohio currently has receprocity agreements with 16 other states. The requirement is that the other state has essentially the same training, back-ground checks, etc.
Ohio honors Florida permits even for non-residents.
Get a Florida non-resident permit and you will be legal in Ohio.
You can find information on all states at Packing.org

[epow]

Thanks for the info. I'll have to decide if getting a non-resident FL permit that I might use once every couple of years is worth the expense. I can travel armed through every state between Key West and the MI UP with my GA permit except IL and OH, and also all the way to the CA, OR, and WA state lines as long as I avoid a couple of midwestern states (KS and NE). IA doesn't honor GA permits, but I have a letter from the IA state police chief saying that I can legally carry a gun in my car and to and from hotel rooms.

Anyway, I'll check your suggested website and see what it would cost and how much trouble it would be to get a FL non-resident CC permit.

[epow]

I just checked out the packing.org site and it says that only resident FL CCW permits are honored in OH. Oh well, I wasn't sure that I would take advantage of the FL permit anyway.

IMHO the best thing about the new law that was passed over the governor's veto is that all city and county gun restrictions in OH are invalidated by this new law.

HB 347 will create statewide preemption ensuring that firearm laws are uniform throughout the state.

Even if it didn't do anything to improve the CCW law, which it does, it would still have been well worth the effort it took to get it passed just to invalidate those ridiculous gun bans in various OH cities and counties. That means the semiauto ban in Cincy, the various types of gun and high-cap magazine bans in Dayton, Columbus, Akron, Bedford Heights, Toledo, Tallmage, Shaker Heights, Silver Lake, Mansfield, Middlefield, Hunting Valley, Highland Heights, Fairlawn, Cuyahoga Falls, and all other OH towns are overridden and voided by this new state law.

[mr_hammer]

The voters in a Ohio landed a knockout punch against a Rino Governor. Goodbye an good riddens!