gryphon
Member
This is a letter from Rep. Brinkman regarding the CCW legislation. SOme of you may have already received this letter, but for those who have not, please read:
AS most of you know, concelaed carry legislation is now dead for the year. Considering the horrible gun control that the Senate attached to H.B. 274, this is a good thing. As it was passed by the Ohio Senate, the bill was loaded with the worst, anti-gun mandates anyone could dream up including:
The bill also contained so many restrictions on where a person could carry that most Ohioans would be breaking hte law if they carried their concealed firearms anyplace but in their own homes. The bill even contained a ban on CCW in your car. If this bill had become law, it would have been one of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
The changes were made to convince the State FOP to drop their opposition to the bill. However, when that was done, Gov. Bob Taft wanted even more gun control added to the bill before he would even consider signing it. Even though every anti-gun demand he wanted(including trigger locks) was attached to H.B. 274, Taft still said he would not support CCW. Considering how bad H.B. 274 was by the time the Senate was done with it, that is a good thing.
I intend to re-introduce my Constitutional Right to Carry bill(H.B. 225) in January when it will be assigned a new number. As most pro-gun Ohioans know, I tried to get the Ohio House to vote instead for my COnstitutional, Vermont style Right to Carry bill, but was unsuccessful. Since that time, I work to strip all gun control from H.B. 274 and attach my bill(H.B. 225) to H.B. 274. When that failed, I worked to defeat the H.B. 274 gun control bill. Fortunately, we were successful in that effort.
One thing was proven this year; we can pass something called concelaed carry. Next year we need to pass something that is concelaed carry adn is Constitutional. That something is Vermont-style Right to Carry.
SIncerely Yours,
Tom Brinkman Jr.
State Representative
AS most of you know, concelaed carry legislation is now dead for the year. Considering the horrible gun control that the Senate attached to H.B. 274, this is a good thing. As it was passed by the Ohio Senate, the bill was loaded with the worst, anti-gun mandates anyone could dream up including:
- Forcing law-abiding Ohioans to submit to licensing and having their personal information deposited into a Big Government database
- Forcing law-abiding Ohioans to get permission from Big Government to carry a firearm.
- FOrcing law-abiding Ohioans to submit to be finger printed like convicted sex offenders.
- Tripling the training mandate over the House passed version.
- Increasing the licensing fee over the House passed version.
- Requiring all CCW applicants to submit to mandatory finger printing.
- Creating Big Government databases on law-abiding Ohioans that are accessible to anti-gun bureaucrats outside of Ohio.
- And the worse change of all - the stripping out of the affirmative defense provision of the bill which would have protected law-abiding gun owners who wanted to opt out of the permitting process.
The bill also contained so many restrictions on where a person could carry that most Ohioans would be breaking hte law if they carried their concealed firearms anyplace but in their own homes. The bill even contained a ban on CCW in your car. If this bill had become law, it would have been one of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
The changes were made to convince the State FOP to drop their opposition to the bill. However, when that was done, Gov. Bob Taft wanted even more gun control added to the bill before he would even consider signing it. Even though every anti-gun demand he wanted(including trigger locks) was attached to H.B. 274, Taft still said he would not support CCW. Considering how bad H.B. 274 was by the time the Senate was done with it, that is a good thing.
I intend to re-introduce my Constitutional Right to Carry bill(H.B. 225) in January when it will be assigned a new number. As most pro-gun Ohioans know, I tried to get the Ohio House to vote instead for my COnstitutional, Vermont style Right to Carry bill, but was unsuccessful. Since that time, I work to strip all gun control from H.B. 274 and attach my bill(H.B. 225) to H.B. 274. When that failed, I worked to defeat the H.B. 274 gun control bill. Fortunately, we were successful in that effort.
One thing was proven this year; we can pass something called concelaed carry. Next year we need to pass something that is concelaed carry adn is Constitutional. That something is Vermont-style Right to Carry.
SIncerely Yours,
Tom Brinkman Jr.
State Representative
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