Assualt weapons ban bill introduced in Ohio

Proposed language:
(D) As used in this section, "assault weapon" means an automatic firearm that has not been rendered permanently inoperable, a semi-automatic firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine with the capacity to accept ten or more cartridges, and a semi-automatic firearm with a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept ten or more cartridges.
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Also includes:
Sec. 109.5731. The attorney general shall prepare for the establishment and operation of a firearm and ammunition transactions database that will be maintained by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation. The attorney general shall establish the database in conformity with the requirements of any act that is enacted by the general assembly.
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Interesting, language deliberately aimed at the wildly popular SKS rifle...

Is anybody watching all the state legislatures these bills are being introduced in and seeing what kind of REAL support they are getting?
 
Armorer-at-Law said:
Proposed language:
Quote:
(D) As used in this section, "assault weapon" means an automatic firearm that has not been rendered permanently inoperable, a semi-automatic firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine with the capacity to accept ten or more cartridges, and a semi-automatic firearm with a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept ten or more cartridges.
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Based on the underlined clause, that appears to include virtually every semiautomatic pistol on the market! :eek:
 
Same type of thing in Missouri yesterday. House Bill 545. I'm guessing this will get crushed pretty quick here, though.
 
Good Luck Rebel and we feel your pain.
I am lucky to have made an exodus from the NE years ago. I am fortunate to live in a state that has just passed several pro Second Amendment laws. I for one never thought casually discussing shooting sports would go political but that is the world we like in now. I can only hope Ohio's "Red" governor will do the right thing and exercise his veto power.
 
Based on the underlined clause, that appears to include virtually every semiautomatic pistol on the market!
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I would think that would include nearly any semi-auto rifle or handgun, and even some shotguns. Theoretically as long as the gun is magazine fed, the ability exists for it to accept a magazine that holds 10 or more rounds. Even something as mundane as a Remington 750, which is about as far from an EBR as you can get in the semi-auto rifle world, has commercially available 10 round magazines.

It seems to me that even if this were to get passed through, it would be struck down pretty quickly if challenged in court. The definitions in this bill are so broad and far reaching that it would ban nearly every semi auto firearm in common usage today, which would go against the precedence set by SCOTUS in their Heller ruling.
 
god help us all, i love ohio so much i got my "assault" guns in case i have to defend her from foreign invasion (its happened before) , or any of my other countrymen states in need,
 
Theoretically as long as the gun is magazine fed, the ability exists for it to accept a magazine that holds 10 or more rounds.
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OMG! Getting out my tinfoil hat here...the gun-grabbers could gleefully set up a magazine manufacturing plant to make an 11 round magazine for EVERY firearm so that they would ALL fall under the restriction.
 
Auto426, you are absolutely right. My fingers to away from me before my brain finished processing that one.

DaleA, the gun grabbers won't need to build a magazine plant. The free market will just about guarantee that if someone can make a buck on 'em, they'll build 'em.
 
No reason to give Shirley Smith's proposal any recognition at all. It doesn't have a snow balls chance in hell of passing in Ohio. Republican controlled House: Check. Republican controlled Senate; Check. Republican Governor; Check.

General assembly makeup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/130th_Ohio_General_Assembly

This is the same legislative body that just relaxed a bunch of carry laws last year and the restaurant carry less than two years ago.

Just to be on the safe side, I'll write my reps anyway, but they already know how I feel since I write them frequently.
 
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