{"id":53620,"date":"2022-06-13T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53620"},"modified":"2022-06-13T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:37:58","slug":"permitless-carry-gun-law-goes-into-effect-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/permitless-carry-gun-law-goes-into-effect-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Permitless carry gun law goes into effect in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Ohio law that allows those 21 and older to no longer carry a permit or complete the eight-hour handgun training course to carry and conceal a firearm went into effect on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The law,<\/a> signed by Gov. Mike DeWine in March, also ended the requirement for gun carriers to inform police officers if they have a concealed weapon on them unless specifically asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SB 215, referred to as the permitless carry or constitutional carry law, passed through the Ohio House and Senate without any Democratic votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law does have some criteria for who is allowed to follow permitless carry. It says you must be 21 years of age or older, be a legal resident, not be a fugitive, not be the subject of a protection order and not have been hospitalized or adjudicated as being mentally ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, one must not have been dishonorably discharged from the military, not have a conviction or delinquency for a felony, a drug offense or domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who do not have a conviction of a violent misdemeanor within the last three years, do not have two or more convictions for violent misdemeanors within the last five years and are not forbidden to carry a firearm under state or federal law are now allowed permitless carry under the new law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law allows those within these criteria in Ohio to skip the eight-hour training, submit an application through their local sheriff’s office and pass a background check in order to obtain, carry and conceal a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Buckeye Firearm Association director Joe Eaton said the organization has been working for almost two decades to get permitless carry enacted in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Buckeye Firearm Association is very excited to finally see permitless carry,” Eaton told ABC News. “It gives crime victims one more alternative for how they choose to protect themselves.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Weinman, governmental affairs chair of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, said the organization has been fighting this law and is still opposed to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weinman said permitless carry will make it easier for people who don’t know how to safely use guns to have them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When we did have a conceal carry permit, thousands were revoked or suspended each year. That means that every year, there are law-abiding people that become not law-abiding people,” Weinman told ABC News. “[With this law] there are just more guns on the street and less laws with them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weinman said the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police is in favor of having permits and requiring background checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s office<\/a>, 2,300 concealed carry licenses were suspended or revoked in 2021, and 2,047 were revoked or suspended in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office reports that the number of concealed carry licenses across Ohio went from 54,426 in 2019 to 94,298 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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