Posted March 22, 2017 12:34 pm by Comments

By Christen Smith

A law expanding concealed carry went into effect Monday in Ohio.
Gov. John Kasich signed Senate Bill 199 on Dec.19, giving colleges the authority to allow concealed weapons on campus and expanding the places permit holds can legally carry, to include day cares, schools and airports.
The law also allows for concealed carry permit holders to store their weapons in cars parked on business property where weapons may otherwise be banned. Lawmakers threw out a provision adding concealed carry permit holders to the protected class status under the state’s anti-discrimination law after business groups argued it infringed on employers’ rights.
“This is important,” said Dean Rieck, executive director of Buckeye Firearms Association. “Because, previously, if a business bans guns at work, including parking lots, employees are essentially banned from having their firearm all day, and are defenseless from the time they leave home in the morning until they return home in the evening.”
The state’s concealed carry laws came into focus after the Nov. 28 attack at Ohio State University, where Abdul Razak Ali Artan plowed his car through a group of students and subsequently knifed them, injuring 11.
OSU police officer Alan Horujko shot and killed Artan two minutes into the attack. Investigators praise

Source: Guns.com

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