Question about local laws

[model4006]

this will become ohio law on march 14th:

The current CHL reform bill. Amongst other things, it would: remove the requirement to open carry in a motor vehicle, allow for statewide preemption of local firearms laws (requiring instead that all gun laws be made only at the state level), raise the cost of the license to $55, lengthens the term of the license to five years, allows for renewal of the license up to 90 days before expiration, requires sheriffs to accept CHL applications at least 15 hours per week and post those hours, allows law enforcement officers to transport their loaded firearms if they are legally intoxicated, raises the penalty for mishandling a concealed firearm in a motor vehicle to a fourth degree penalty, and raises the penalty for failure to inform to a third degree felony.

does the statewide preemption mean that only ohio STATE laws apply everywhere. and if any local law was passed, its now gone? thats what these articles i keep reading say, but they are all written by antis who are pissed about hb347. they say even cincinnati's awb will be gone?

can anyone clarify? all i really want to know is if i can open carry in my hometown.

 

[model4006]

ok, i found this too...

- Statewide preemption of firearms law was enacted as follows:

The individual right to keep and bear arms, being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally protected right in every part of Ohio, the general assembly finds the need to provide uniform laws throughout the state regulating the ownership, possession, purchase, other acquisition, transport, storage, carrying, sale, or other transfer of firearms, their components, and their ammunition. Except as specifically provided by the United States Constitution, Ohio Constitution, state law, or federal law, a person, without further license, permission, restriction, delay, or process, may own, possess, purchase, sell, transfer, transport, store, or keep any firearm, part of a firearm, its components, and its ammunition.



Local laws that Statewide preemption will NOT invalidate:

- A zoning ordinance that regulates or prohibits the commercial sale of firearms, firearm components, or ammunition for firearms in areas zoned for residential or agricultural uses.

- A zoning ordinance that specifies the hours of operation or the geographic areas where the commercial sale of firearms, firearm components, or ammunition for firearms may occur, provided that the zoning ordinance is consistent with zoning ordinances for other retail establishments in the same geographic area and does not result in a de facto prohibition of the commercial sale of firearms, firearm components, or ammunition for firearms in areas zoned for commercial, retail, or industrial uses.