Guns

Attempts to attach an amendment to ban the federal government from using local and state police entities to enforce national firearms laws in Ohio failed.

Joel Shenk is a part of a national movement to forge donated firearms into tools for cultivation.

The court recently heard oral arguments in Garland vs. VanDerStok, a case about a federal rule classifying gun kits as firearms.

The court recently heard oral arguments in Garland vs. VanDerStok, a case about a federal rule classifying gun kits as firearms.

A Republican state lawmaker is proposing a bill to require panic buttons in schools, as were used at a high school in Georgia where two students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting last month.

Columbus City Council is scheduled to vote Monday night on the expansion of ShotSpotter tech in the Near East Side of Columbus. If approved, the technology will cover 15 square miles and cost about $884,000 a year.

Two Republican lawmakers have proposed some new regulations related to guns – but not targeted at the weapons themselves, but people who have them but aren’t legally permitted to.

One bill would provide a tax credit for donations to so-called “pregnancy distress centers” in Ohio, and the other would ban cities from keeping a list of guns and gun owners.

TSA reported that it stopped a record 55 firearms at security checkpoints at Columbus John Glenn International Airport in 2023.

Democrats in the Ohio Senate say some bills they have proposed to curb gun violence are bipartisan and should be passed into law.