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SB238 • 2026

Limit liability for firearms dealers re: firearm hold agreements

Limit liability for firearms dealers re: firearm hold agreements

Firearms
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hearcel F. Craig
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Limit liability for firearms dealers re: firearm hold agreements

To enact section 2923.22 of the Revised Code to limit liability for federally licensed firearms dealers in regards to firearm hold agreements

What This Bill Does

  • To enact section 2923.22 of the Revised Code to limit liability for federally licensed firearms dealers in regards to firearm hold agreements

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 2923.22 of the Revised Code to limit liability for federally licensed firearms dealers in regards to firearm hold agreements

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. B. No. 238

2025-2026

Senator Craig

Cosponsor: Senator DeMora

A
BILL

To
enact section 2923.22 of the Revised Code
to
limit liability for federally licensed firearms dealers in regards to
firearm hold agreements

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 2923.22 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
2923.22.
(A)
As used in this section:

(1)
"Federally licensed firearms dealer" has the same meaning
as in section 5502.63 of the Revised Code.

(2)
"Firearm hold agreement" means a private agreement between
a federally licensed firearms dealer and an individual firearm owner
in which the dealer takes physical possession of the owner's lawfully
possessed firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an
agreed period of time, and returns the firearm to the owner according
to the terms of the agreement.

(3)
"Indoor shooting range" means an indoor facility operated
for the purpose of shooting with firearms that conforms to the
generally accepted standards for shooting ranges adopted by the chief
of the division of wildlife under section 1533.84 of the Revised
Code.

(B)(1)
No person has a cause of action against a federally licensed firearms
dealer or the operator of an indoor shooting range for any act or
omission arising from a firearm hold agreement and resulting in
personal injury or death of any person, including the return of any
firearms to the individual firearm owner at the termination of the
agreement.

(2)
This section does not apply to any action arising from a firearm hold
agreement if such action was the result of otherwise unlawful conduct
on the part of the federally licensed firearms dealer or the operator
of an indoor shooting range.

(3)
This section does not apply to agreements in which the owner of the
firearm becomes prohibited from possessing firearms under state or
federal law during the agreement period, and the federally licensed
firearms dealer or the operator of an indoor shooting range knows or
reasonably should know about the weapons disability.

(C)
Nothing in this section requires a federally licensed firearms dealer
or operator of an indoor shooting range to enter into a firearm hold
agreement.