Key Takeaways
- Ohio Senate Bill 214 passed the House and cleared a Senate concurrence vote of 21-9 on November 10.
- The House added a Gun Owners of America-backed amendment removing the state registration requirement for short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns.
- Ohio previously treated short-barreled rifles and shotguns as dangerous ordnance, with most owners relying on federal NFA registration as an exemption.
- Sen. Kyle Koehler introduced SB 214 on June 3, 2025, and the bill drew 16 Senate cosponsors and 54 House cosponsors.
- The bill now goes to Gov. Mike DeWine, whom Gun Owners of America is urging to sign it.
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COLUMBUS, OH — Ohio Senate Bill 214 passed the House and won Senate concurrence on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Gun Owners of America says the version now headed to Gov. Mike DeWine carries the amendment it pushed to cover short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns.
Last month I covered Suppressors In, SBRs and SBSs Out: GOA Pushes Ohio House to Amend SB 214 Before the General Assembly Runs Out of Time. At that point the Senate-passed bill dealt only with suppressors. What has changed is that the House took up GOA’s fix. According to GOA, SB 214 passed the House “with the GOA-backed amendment that removes the requirement to register SBRs & SBSs in the state.”
The Ohio Legislature’s status page for SB 214 shows all of it happened in a single day. On Nov. 10, the House Public Safety Committee reported a substitute version, meaning it sent the bill to the floor in rewritten form. The full House passed it the same day.
The Senate then concurred in the House amendments. In plain terms, senators agreed to the House’s changes, so both chambers have now passed the same version. GOA puts the concurrence vote at 21-9.
Getting there took a while. Sen. Kyle Koehler introduced SB 214 on June 3, 2025. A Senate committee reported it on March 11, 2026, and the Senate passed it on March 25. The bill was introduced in the House on March 31 and referred to the Public Safety Committee on May 13. It sat there for nearly six months before Tuesday’s action. The status page lists 16 Senate cosponsors and 54 House cosponsors.
As I wrote last month, GOA’s concern was a gap in Ohio’s dangerous ordnance law. Ohio still treated SBRs and SBSs as dangerous ordnance. The exemption most owners relied on was federal NFA registration, which ATF stopped enforcing in October. GOA argued the bill needed to close that gap before the General Assembly ran out of time, and by GOA’s account the House version does.
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GOA describes the amendment as removing the state registration requirement for SBRs and SBSs. The enrolled bill, which is the final version both chambers passed and the one presented to the governor, is the document that controls. GOA says the bill now heads to DeWine and is urging him to sign it.
I will continue tracking SB 214 as it moves to the governor’s desk.
