Ohio SB 392: Regards concealed weapons license, weapon types, carry locations

Bill Text

As Introduced
136th General Assembly
Regular Session S. B. No. 392
2025-2026
Senators Cutrona, Johnson
Cosponsors: Senators Lang, Huffman, Manchester, Schaffer, Gavarone, Brenner
To amend sections 9.68, 109.69, 109.731, 311.41,
311.42, 311.43, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.11,
2923.111, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123,
2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.127,
2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1211,
2923.1212, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 2923.17, 2953.35,
4511.19, and 4749.10 and to repeal section
1533.04 of the Revised Code to enact the Freedom
to Carry Act to rename a concealed handgun
license a concealed weapons license, to allow a
concealed weapons licensee to carry a concealed
deadly weapon other than an exclusive deadly
weapon, and to allow the possession or
transportation of a loaded firearm while in a
motor vehicle or vessel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 9.68, 109.69, 109.731, 311.41,
311.42, 311.43, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.11, 2923.111, 2923.12,
2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126,
2923.127, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1211, 2923.1212,
2923.1213, 2923.16, 2923.17, 2953.35, 4511.19, and 4749.10 of
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the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 9.68. (A) The individual right to keep and bear arms,
being a fundamental individual right that predates the United
States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a
constitutionally protected right in every part of Ohio, the
general assembly finds the need to provide uniform laws
throughout the state regulating the ownership, possession,
purchase, other acquisition, transport, storage, carrying, sale,
other transfer, manufacture, taxation, keeping, and reporting of
loss or theft of deadly weapons, including firearms, and their
components, accessories, attachments, and their ammunition, and
knives. The general assembly also finds and declares that it is
proper for law-abiding people to protect themselves, their
families, and others from intruders and attackers without fear
of prosecution or civil action for acting in defense of
themselves or others. Except as specifically provided by the
United States Constitution, Ohio Constitution, state law, or
federal law, a person, without further license, permission,
restriction, delay, or process, including by any ordinance,
rule, regulation, resolution, practice, or other action or any
threat of citation, prosecution, or other legal process, may
own, possess, purchase, acquire, transport, store, carry, sell,
transfer, manufacture, or keep any deadly weapon, including any
firearm, part of a firearm, and its components, accessories,
attachments, and its ammunition, and any knife, without being
required to have firearm liability insurance, and without being
required to pay a fee for the possession of a deadly weapon,
including any firearm, part of a firearm, and its components,
its accessories, attachments, and ammunition, or a knife. Any
such further license, permission, restriction, delay, or process
interferes with the fundamental individual right described in
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this division and unduly inhibits law-abiding people from
protecting themselves, their families, and others from intruders
and attackers and from other legitimate uses of constitutionally
protected arms, including hunting and sporting activities, and
the state by this section preempts, supersedes, and declares
null and void any such further license, permission, restriction,
delay, or process.
(B) A person, group, or entity adversely affected by any
manner of ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution, practice, or
other action enacted or enforced by a political subdivision in
conflict with division (A) of this section may bring a civil
action against the political subdivision seeking damages from
the political subdivision, declaratory relief, injunctive
relief, or a combination of those remedies. Any damages awarded
shall be awarded against, and paid by, the political
subdivision. In addition to any actual damages awarded against
the political subdivision and other relief provided with respect
to such an action, the court shall award reasonable expenses to
any person, group, or entity that brings the action, to be paid
by the political subdivision, if either of the following
applies:
(1) The person, group, or entity prevails in a challenge
to the ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution, practice, or
action as being in conflict with division (A) of this section.
(2) The ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution, practice,
or action or the manner of its enforcement is repealed or
rescinded after the civil action was filed but prior to a final
court determination of the action.
(C) As used in this section:
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