SB 142: Regulate firearms seizure, prevent registry

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SB 142: Regulate firearms seizure, prevent registry

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I seem to remember a similar bill last session that went nowhere.
S. B. No. 142 - Senator Jordan

Cosponsors: Senator Beagle

To enact sections 5502.23 and 5502.231 of the Revised Code to prohibit any agency and its employees and agents from seizing or authorizing the seizure of any firearm from any person lawfully in possession or control of the firearm except when a law enforcement officer reasonably believes the immediate seizure of the firearm is necessary for the safety of the officer or another person or to preserve the firearm as evidence, to prohibit the establishment of a firearm registry, and to prohibit law enforcement officers from enforcing a firearms registration requirement or firearm ban.
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legisl ... 131-SB-142
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Re: SB 142: Regulate firearms seizure, prevent registry

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It'll go nowhere this time as the bill is pretty pointless.

1) 9.68 already prevents a registration. So nowhere in Ohio can we have a registration at the state or local level.

2) State law can't override federal law or federal agents. So if they want to create a registry, this would immediately be shot down as unenforceable in any federal court.

3) It includes safety of the officer or another person. That's a catch all for holding onto a weapon. I haven't really read any cases that "officer safety" couldn't fit into why the officer took the weapon.
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