Gun Laws

The legal battle over Columbus' local gun laws is ongoing in both Delaware County and Franklin County courts.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost had filed a lawsuit against the City of Columbus to block its new gun laws.

An ordinance approved Monday comes amid an ongoing legal fight with the state over the rights of cities to pass their own gun restrictions.

A Tuesday public meeting comes amid an ongoing legal fight with the state over local control of gun laws.

Columbus city leaders are celebrating the ruling, which they say "upholds our constitutional right to home rule."

The president's signing comes just over a month after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults.

The House approved the bipartisan bill 234-193 exactly one month after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. It's the first gun control measure to come out of Congress in nearly three decades.

The opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, invalidates New York's requirement for people to show "proper cause" to get public carry gun licenses.

The owner of Team Anvil, a Delaware, Ohio-based company that offers concealed carry training, is supportive of the new Ohio law now in effect that allows those 21-years-old and older to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.

With gun violence now the leading cause of death among young people, gun control advocates say there is an urgent need to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles and other long guns to 21.