On December 18, the Ohio State Senate voted overwhelmingly to send amended Senate Bill 58 to Governor Mike DeWine’s desk to sign into law. SB 58, moving forward with a voting margin of 25-6, would prohibit any government entity in Ohio from requiring citizens to acquire firearm liability insurance or pay a fee to exercise their Constitutional rights to possess a firearm, component, ammunition or knife. Senate Bill 148, in the meantime, was amended into SB 58 and protects the privacy of Ohioans by prohibiting the government from maintaining registries of firearms or firearm owners and forbidding financial institutions from tracking firearms purchases.

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