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Currently in Ohio, it’s illegal to carry a concealed weapon at a bar while drinking alcohol. But the Ohio Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could change that. In 2022, according to court documents, a man entered the Lazy River Lounge in Zanesville and ordered five drinks for himself over the course of the night.
Records show he got in a fight in a men’s bathroom at 2 a.m. and shot a man through the neck.
Over the past 20 years, Jake Zuckerman reports, the Republican-dominated state legislature has steadily relaxed gun laws, adding legal protections for those who shoot and kill in perceived self-defense with a “stand your ground” law; establishing the right to carry concealed weapons; and allowing K-12 teachers to carry firearms in the classroom. Will the Republican-dominated Supreme Court relax the alcohol-and-firearm ban as well? — Laura Overnight Scores and Weather Northeast Ohio weather forecast : Sunshine continues Top Stories Gun case : The state Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a challenge brought by a man accused of shooting a man in a bar. Jake Zuckerman reports the ruling could overturn a longstanding Ohio law that prohibits those who consume alcohol from carrying a concealed weapon at a bar and continue a long series of gun deregulations that Republican state lawmakers have enacted in Ohio over the past two decades.
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