A vote on this legislation on the Senate Floor is expected today. Session begins at 1:30pm. You can watch it live or visit the same link to watch recorded sessions if you read this late.

Use THIS LINK to identify your Senator's telephone number before 1:30pm today and call them NOW -- Tell them to pass HB274 as it left the Ohio House, or, if they can't do that on the floor, tell them to vote AGAINST HB274 as the Senate Judiciary Committee has ruined it.

Here is what they did to HB274 for Bob Taft:

- The concealed carry bill now makes it illegal to carry a firearm in a motor vehicle ("Firearm must be securely confined")

As if that wasn't enough, here are just a few things that were done to the legislation:

- Requires FFL Dealers to offer to sell trigger locks & to distribute information on safe storage (This violates the Single Subject Rule For Legislation)

- Specifically prohibits carry in stadiums or arenas (Feel good legislation. CCW was already banned in stadiums due to their liqour permits)

- CRIMINALIZES not noticing a "No Guns" sign on private property beyong trespassing.

- If you've been adjudicated mentally incompetent, you can -never- apply for a permit (This seems like fluff. Existing law deems mentally ill patients under disability. Full recovery results in lost rights?)

- Carrying in any prohibited area is not the same as not having a license. (1st Degree Misdemeanor)

Ohioans For Concealed Carry will have a copy of the legislation online late Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning.