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« How you (and the Court) reads a sharply divided decision | Main | Another CCW holder stops a mass slaying »

Ohio House passes castle doctrine and much else

Posted by David Hardy · 28 May 2008 05:51 PM

A comment on a prior post noted this, and I figured it merits its own post. The Buckeye Firearms Association has the story here. It had already passed the Senate, albeit in a different form, so a conference between the houses will be necessary to get the final bill.

· State legislation

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jon | May 28, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply

"Clarifies an unloaded firearm as one with no ammunition in the firearm or in magazines or speedloaders, regardless of where else ammunition is stored"

i'd suggest they take a second look at that.

even in massachusetts, a full stripper clip or speedloader doth not a "loaded firearm" make. you must willfully and consciously employ force to operate the loader correctly on a magazine. only after rounds are in some part of a firearm is there a firearm to consider loaded -- which we then do. otherwise, loaders are just a storage mechanism that are part of no weapon.

The Duck | May 29, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply

Well it is a big improvement over what we have had, if loose ammo was in the same general area as the firearm (i.e.: same range bag) it could legally be construed as a "Loaded Weapon"
since the ammo was assessable

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