Garrett’s attorney, state Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.), says prosecutors are leaning on an Ohio law that bans drivers and passengers from having loaded firearms within reach inside a vehicle. But he argues another section of the law creates an exemption for concealed carry license holders. Garrett holds a lifetime license in Indiana. [More]
And duty to inform IF ASKED seems ripe for a Fifth Amendment challenge.
Yet the Republicans who allow this and aren’t pushing for change will be quick to brag about how they’re “staunch defenders of the Second Amendment” come election time.
[Via Jess]
It bears repeating that only one state had, until recently, real Constitutional carry. Vermont didn’t care what you carried or how you carried it or where you carried it. As long as you went about peaceably armed, they didn’t care. In fact the state had next to nothing when it came to gun laws in general.
“The state neither issues nor requires a permit to carry a weapon on one’s person, openly or concealed. This is known in the U.S. as constitutional carry. The phrase “constitutional carry” reflects the view that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not abide restrictions on gun rights, including the right to carry or bear arms. Vermont is the only state where this has always been the case (hence the alternative term Vermont carry[13]). Vermont law does not distinguish between residents and non-residents of the state; both have the same right to carry without prior state approval while in Vermont.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Vermont
You know, that “shall not be infringed” thing.
Last I heard, some liberal transplant from New York or Connecticut or some other workers paradise took it upon themself to f*ck it up.