Guns & Firearms
Ohio has steadily loosened its gun laws while blocking cities from passing their own. The result is a fight over local power as much as firearms. We cover both fronts.
Issue
Guns & Firearms
Deregulation, state preemption, and the court fight over whether cities can act.
Stories
Arming Teachers, and the Ruling It Was Written to Erase
A 2021 Ohio Supreme Court decision said the Madison district armed staff with too little training. In 2022, House Bill 99 capped that training at 24 hours and wrote the ruling out of the law.
04 July 2026
"Do Something!" and What Came Instead
Ohio met a mass shooting in Dayton with looser gun law, not a safety bill. The record shows where the promise stopped.
04 July 2026