Ohio's CCW HB 12 on hold again.

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This is from Ohioans For Concealed Carry. Read more at www.ofcc.net/

STALLED UNTIL FALL: Although two news organizations are reporting that HB12 "appears to be dead", most others are suggesting that the legislative summer break will be used as a cool-down period , and that the matter will be readdressed when the General Assembly reconvenes.

Gov. Taft is allowing the Ohio State Highway Patrol bureaucracy to dictate his position, and is refusing to entertain any notion of a compromise, despite having already received 98% of law enforcement demands. According to media reports across the state, Senate leadership is deferring their legislative responsibilities for negotiation to the Governor.

Thankfully, the Ohio House of Representatives is standing against efforts to make existing law even worse for citizens who wish to defend themselves.

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This is interesting. Carry Concealed Weapons laws are [glow=red,2,300]"the only gun laws associated with reduced police fatalities".
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A bill recognizing Ohioans' right to self-defense is on hold (again), due to the actions of Gov. Bob Taft, a few bureaucrats in the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and a few enablers in the Senate.

One of the main issues preventing a compromise is Taft/OSHP-sponsored language that would require people in vehicles with minor occupants to lock up their firearms. This Senate amendment has quickly become known as Taft's "Car-jacker Protection" provision.

The most disgraceful part of the "Car-jacker Protection" provision is that it is something that no anti-self-defense extremist demanded. Nor was the "Car-jacker Protection" provision inserted to win any Senator's crucial vote. Rather, it was inserted only at the insistence of Gov. Taft and the OSHP.

At first they argued that a carry-in-a-car ban was necessary to protect the lives of law enforcement officers. But when we told Senators about a study by University of Georgia professor David Mustard, published in the Journal of Law and Economics, they were forced to change their tune. Mustard's study deals with the issue of risks to police from concealed handgun laws. His research indicated that concealed carry laws are the only gun laws associated with reduced police fatalities.