August 4, 2019
By Cameron Knight and Jessie Balmert
As Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (click here) spoke at a community gathering after the Dayton shooting, the crowd erupted in chants of "Do something."
In the wake of Dayton's mass shooting Sunday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was shouted down by a crowd of vigil attendees wanting action.
As he took the stage in the Oregon District of Dayton, the location of Sunday's mass shooting, and commented on the size of the crowd gathered, he was met with chants.
"Do something!" the crowd chanted over and over.
Dewine's first act as a newly elected Governor was to reverse a gun law which placed a priority of gun regulation according to the "Gun Control Act of 1968,"
(L) "Dangerous ordnance" (click here) does not include any of the following:
(7) Any firearm with an overall length of at least twenty-six inches that is approved for sale by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives under the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921 (a)(3), but that is found by the bureau not to be regulated under the "National Firearms Act," 68A Stat. 725 (1934), 26 U.S.C. 5845 (a).
March 11, 2019
By Randy Ludlow
Saying that his signature represented (click here) “a reaffirmation of the Second Amendment,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed his first bill into law Monday afternoon
House Bill 86, which corrects a drafting error in gun-related legislation that the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed late last year, took effect immediately as an emergency measure.
The new law corrects inadvertent wording that included firearms with an overall length of at least 26 inches — taking in many rifles and shotguns — as “dangerous ordnance.”
Groups such as the Buckeye Firearms Association, Ohioans for Concealed Carry and the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, whose leaders attended the bill-signing ceremony, lobbied lawmakers to swiftly correct the mistake.
The GOP-ruled Senate passed the new bill recently by a party-line 23-9 vote, while the House approved it 76-20.
House Bill 228, which the emergency measure corrected, does not take effect until March 28. It further forbids local governments from imposing restrictions on guns and shifts the burden of proof in self-defense cases from the defendant to prosecutors.
