IT LOOKS AS IF Ohio is going to get a liberalized concealed-carry law:

The bill would allow Ohioans who are at least 21 years old, complete 12 hours of firearm training, and pass criminal and mental-health background checks to receive four-year permits to carry handguns on themselves or in their cars.

The issue has crossed party lines and has instead divided lawmakers along urban and suburban-rural lines.

The measure is supported by the Buckeye State Sheriffs Association, whose members would process permit applications. The highway patrol and Fraternal Order of Police have adopted positions of neutrality. The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police remains opposed.

The bill seems to retain some dumb minor restrictions, but I expect those will be removed in future years, when the (inevitable, and inevitably wrong) predictions of a bloodbath made by anti-rights forces don’t play out.