Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Last week, the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate voted 67-22 and 21-11, respectively, to override Governor John Kasich’s veto of self-defense legislation, Sub. House Bill 228. Substitute House Bill 228 will now be enacted into law.
Some of the important provisions in Sub. House Bill 228 are:
- Placing the burden of disproving a self-defense claim on the prosecution, similar to how it is in every other state in the country.
- Critical expansion of preemption to ensure that localities do not create a patchwork of gun laws throughout Ohio.
- Language updates to mirror federal law that affects certain types of firearms, such as the Mossberg Shockwave.
- Clarifies Ohio’s signage law in regards to concealed carry. These important changes simplify what has become a complicated portion of Ohio law.
Thank you to NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters who continued to contact their lawmakers in support of this important legislation. Also, special thanks to those legislators who voted in favor of Sub. HB 228 and again to override the Governor’s veto.
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What a lot of people are not talking about, is the issue with the Shockwave may not be fixed.
Something about the changes being placed in the wrong sub-section of the law.
This is a case of NRA claiming victory after doing away with the most important part of the original Bill. Instead of “Standing and Fighting” to keep the Bill intact they bent over and compromised and changes to Duty to Retreat were removed.
I lived in Ohio for 50 years and voted for Kasich. I REGRET every vote ! He really turned out to be another John McCain.
I saw an article about Kasich a few days ago and talked about how he went from being a Conservative to an anti-Trumper. I personally believe that he was never a conservative. He was a RINO thru and thru. Cannot believe that a few years ago I hoped he would go national. Whew, glad that did not happen.
He is a piece of shit,no shit has a purpose
TINOs like Kasich are as much of an invasive cancer as Demoncraps. In 1990, when I jumped ship from the GOP and became a proud PaleoConservative independent voter, I wrote:
“Democrats and today’s Republicans are the two wings of the same loathsome Socialist carrion-feeder,”
and I’m afraid I have been right all along.