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Ohio Concealed Weapons Law Ruled Unconstitutional
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Ohio Concealed Weapons Law Ruled Unconstitutional
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
CINCINNATI - A state appeals court on Wednesday declared Ohio's decades-old ban on carrying concealed weapons unconstitutional because it violates the right to self defense.
The framers of the Ohio constitution "put the citizens' rights up front," said Mark Painter, presiding judge of the 1st Ohio District Court of Appeals. "We believe they meant what they said."
Ohio's attorney general asked the state Supreme Court for an immediate delay of the ruling to hear an appeal, said spokesman Joe Case.
Lawyers for Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the state had argued that government has the right to regulate the manner in which weapons are carried.
The appeals court upheld Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman's Jan. 10 ruling that the state ban was unenforceable in the county. The ban includes both carrying a concealed weapon and having a loaded weapon in a vehicle.
The court also said the ban is confusing to citizens and police, making it likely that various agencies would enforce the law differently.
"I feel like a burden's been lifted off my shoulders," said Pat Feely, 31, a food delivery truck and one of five people who challenged the law. "I feel like I don't risk arrest."
Feely was arrested in 1999 because he kept a gun in his waistband while delivering pizzas.
Ohio allows only law enforcement officials and state and federal government officers to carry concealed weapons.
The plaintiffs, who include a private investigator, say their jobs take them into areas where they need self defense. Their attorneys also argued that conflicting enforcement by different police agencies makes it difficult for people to know how to exercise their constitutional right to self defense.
They said Cincinnati police have arrested people for carrying concealed weapons, and city officers have testified they probably would arrest someone who tried to openly carry a weapon.
A State Highway Patrol officer testified that the patrol has caught motorists carrying loaded guns and let them go.
Forty-three states allow concealed weapons in some form.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49994,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
CINCINNATI - A state appeals court on Wednesday declared Ohio's decades-old ban on carrying concealed weapons unconstitutional because it violates the right to self defense.
The framers of the Ohio constitution "put the citizens' rights up front," said Mark Painter, presiding judge of the 1st Ohio District Court of Appeals. "We believe they meant what they said."
Ohio's attorney general asked the state Supreme Court for an immediate delay of the ruling to hear an appeal, said spokesman Joe Case.
Lawyers for Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the state had argued that government has the right to regulate the manner in which weapons are carried.
The appeals court upheld Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman's Jan. 10 ruling that the state ban was unenforceable in the county. The ban includes both carrying a concealed weapon and having a loaded weapon in a vehicle.
The court also said the ban is confusing to citizens and police, making it likely that various agencies would enforce the law differently.
"I feel like a burden's been lifted off my shoulders," said Pat Feely, 31, a food delivery truck and one of five people who challenged the law. "I feel like I don't risk arrest."
Feely was arrested in 1999 because he kept a gun in his waistband while delivering pizzas.
Ohio allows only law enforcement officials and state and federal government officers to carry concealed weapons.
The plaintiffs, who include a private investigator, say their jobs take them into areas where they need self defense. Their attorneys also argued that conflicting enforcement by different police agencies makes it difficult for people to know how to exercise their constitutional right to self defense.
They said Cincinnati police have arrested people for carrying concealed weapons, and city officers have testified they probably would arrest someone who tried to openly carry a weapon.
A State Highway Patrol officer testified that the patrol has caught motorists carrying loaded guns and let them go.
Forty-three states allow concealed weapons in some form.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49994,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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I think the wording in the OHIO constitution is something like "THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS FOR DEFENSE OF THEMSELVES AND FOR THE STATE". It is amazing how law makers can suggest that the amendment means exactly the opposite of what it says.
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