CONCEALED-WEAPONS LAW What’s been changed

Some changes to Ohio’s concealed-weapons law taking effect today:

Permit holders can now keep a gun hidden in a car as long as they’re carrying it in a secure holster. The law previously required the gun to be in plain sight.

Permit holders may bring a gun onto school grounds as long as they are in a car picking up or dropping off a child.

Landlords no longer can prohibit licensed concealed weapons permit holders from having their weapons in apartments.

Allows people without a license to carry concealed weapons in their homes as long as they aren’t engaged in illegal activity.

Decreases the penalty for failure to notify a police officer of one’s permit status when stopped if the officer already received the information through a license plate check.

Allows holders of valid liquor licenses who are also concealed weapons permit holders to carry a hidden gun on their premises.

Includes the presumption that a resident who hurts or kills an intruder acted in self-defense or in defense of another if the intruder has entered unlawfully or without permission.

Source: AP Research