Guns and federal property

More back-and-forth in Ohio's ever-broadening gun laws was in the news last week.

Staff writer Lynn Hulsey wrote that the new law allowing gun owners to bring their firearms to work as long as they're locked in their car won't extend to the area's largest workplace: "Workers at the states's largest single-site employer, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, won't be allowed to bring their handguns to work even though a new state law says employees with concealed-carry permits can keep their guns in locked cars on company property."

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A base spokesman told Hulsey, ""Wright-Patterson AFB is an exclusive federal jurisdiction and therefore CCW holders are not authorized to carry privately owned weapons on base." Same thing for federal Post Office workers and employees in Dayton's federal courthouse.

U.S. District Judge Walter Rice told her, “I think open carry (and concealed-carry) laws, with all due deference to the Second Amendment, which I support … are dangerous to any community because of the epidemic of mental health issues throughout this country.”

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