Is there a need for states to take legislative action to protect law-abiding gun owners?

Republican State Representatives Mike Loychik and Diane Grendell believe there is a need to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Ohioans.

They have introduced a House bill they say will help protect law-abiding Ohioans' 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms.

Loychik and Diane Grendell believe President Joe Biden has already tried to circumvent the will of the people bypassing Congress by imposing an Executive Order on gun control.

So they are sponsoring House Bill 62, which would make Ohio a Second Amendment Safe Haven State.
Sponsors of the bill say the Constitutional right must be protected from radical Executive Orders that could harm law-abiding Ohioans.

Representative Loychik said, "I have been talking with my constituents, and they, as law-abiding citizens fear they might become criminals. It is with them in mind that I've decided to sponsor this proposal."

Representative Grendell added, "There are so many things are happening where our federal government is overreaching and grabbing to try and take more and more rights away. This act will be a shield; people will be able to see that the state of Ohio has protection, and we are not going to allow the overreach of the federal government on the issue of the Second Amendment."

"This bill has teeth to it. The federal government can not use their law enforcement, FBI, ATF; they can't use their law enforcement attached to state and local law enforcement to manipulate or go after unconstitutional gun laws. Infringements on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Ohioans won't be recognized," added Loychik.

Some Key provisions forbid confiscation, registration, excessive taxation. Another part of the bill addresses any Acts that forbid possession of guns, ammunition, and accessories by law-abiding gun owners.

The Tenth Amendment limits national government and grants states the right to pass laws. It spells out that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the state, and reserved to the states.

But not all lawmakers are on board. Democrat State Representative Michele Lepore Hagan says she believes law-abiding owners have a right to own guns, but she and many Ohioans support background checks and other measures.

Representative Lepore-Hagan said, "I am against this bill. There has been so much increased in gun violence in this nation right now, and now is not the time we shy away from sensible gun measures. We have to keep our neighborhoods and our children safe. About 90 percent of the people in Ohio want safe gun measures in place, so we should be listening to what our constituents want."

Kansas, Idaho, Wyoming, and Alaska have passed laws.

Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri are among about a dozen other states looking at similar legislation.