Ohio Governor Taft Threatens to Veto Gun Bill

Ohio Governor Bob Taft takes issue with 2 proposed changes to Ohio's conceal-carry law, and has threatened a veto:

Unless two major provisions being pushed by gun advocates are taken out of a bill that would revise Ohio’s concealcarry law, Gov. Bob Taft won’t sign it.

Supporters say the bill will close loopholes and clean up the state’s nearly 2-year-old gun law, and it should pass out of a House committee by the end of March, said Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Bowling Green, the committee chairman.

But the governor won’t go along with two proposed changes: altering how guns must be carried in vehicles and restricting journalists’ access to the names of those with conceal-carry permits.

"The governor would be opposed to any change in those provisions," spokesman Mark Rickel said.

"The position remains the same as it did two years ago. Those were two very key provisions to his approval of the legislation and he does not want them to be changed."

Bill supporters would need three-fifths of the votes in each chamber to override a Taft veto.

Taft signed the conceal-carry law in early 2004, but only after repeatedly butting heads with gun-rights advocates.

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My Comments:
Bob Taft - a pro-tax, anti-gun crook. That POS can't leave office soon enough for me (and I've only been in Ohio for 3 months - imagine how the folks who have had to live through 7-and-a-half years of his corrupt administration feel).