Suppressors Ohio suppressor hunting on floor for discussion tomorrow.

[Killswitch Engage]

Get on the keyboards and phones Ohioans. This is our chance to make iit happen.

copied from email....
10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116, the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee will take proponent/opponent testimony on House Bill 234, important pro-hunting reform legislation. Sponsored by state Representative Cheryl Grossman, HB 234 would repeal Ohio’s current prohibition on the use of a suppressor while hunting. Currently, more than half of the states allow hunters to use suppressors while hunting. There are numerous benefits to hunting with suppressed firearms including elimination of noise complaints that are frequently an excuse to close hunting lands, reduction of recoil and muzzle rise to increase accuracy, and to help protect against hearing loss. For more information on hunting with suppressors, please click here.

 

[wackenstack]

Has anyone heard anything about this? when could this happen? Or will it?

 

[flounderv2]

Firemarshall just sent this to me.

Excerpt taken from HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee | Buckeye Firearms Association
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HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee
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Submitted by cbaus on January 21, 2014 - 8:00am. Ohio Legislation Ohio Politics BFA News Sports and Hunting
Chairman David Hall has announced that the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee will be hearing all testimony on Representative Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 today, Tuesday January 21, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116. This will be the third hearing for this important bill.

Chairman Hall has indicated that a vote is possible.

Buckeye Firearms Association has previously provided testimony in support of the bill, and leaders will again be on hand at the hearing today.

The use of suppressors while hunting is rapidly growing in the United States. Over thirty states allow the use of suppressors for some form of hunting, with most allowing them for all types of hunting. All states contiguous to Ohio, except Michigan, allow the use of suppressors for all types of hunting. Indiana passed their bill earlier this year.

The use of suppressors will greatly benefit predator and varmint, coyote and groundhog, hunters. Coyote hunting is primarily done in the early morning, late evening or even into the night. The use of suppressors will not only offer hearing protection for the hunter but allow him/her to be a good neighbor. Trappers may find suppressors a useful tool. They often trap close to developed areas or where streams run along a roadway. Should they be required to dispatch an animal, they can do so using a suppressor-equipped firearm quickly and in an environmentally-friendly way.

The use of suppressors while hunting is a valuable tool as an aid in hearing protection and being a good neighbor. It is making another safety tool available to hunters, and we encourage supporters to contact their state representatives and encourage them to vote yes on HB 234.

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[HawkDriver]

Did this pass? I read the bill on the Ohio 130th legislative session web page but I can't tell if it was signed yet or not.

 

[Shootnjunky]

It is in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee tomorrow, Send your reps a message and ask for a vote FOR this bill

 

[HawkDriver]

I just read that HB 234 passed the Committee and is headed to the House for debate.

 

[Shootnjunky]

Any update on this?

 

[Killswitch Engage]

I would like to know as well

 

[earthquake]

^^^Me too. Do they consider busting groundhogs "hunting"? Looks like I'm moving back to the Buckeye state next month and would like to get back to slaying some whistle-pigs with my suppressed Creed!

 

[Shootnjunky]

Yes they do, so you have to wait with the rest of us.


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[Grumulkin]

Do they consider busting groundhogs "hunting"?

I spoke with a game warden about shooting crows that were a nuisance. Shooting animals that are a nuisance is not considered hunting. For some nuisance animals in Ohio like deer, a nuisance permit is required to take it out of season. For others like raccoons, opposums, skunks and groundhogs, a nuisance permit is not required and a nuisance animal may be eliminated any time of the year. That doesn't allow you to bait, call in, etc. animals that weren't causing a nuisance.

That doesn't help you though because the way the regulation reads is that you can't use a supressed firearm to take quadrupeds and a groundhog is a quadruped.