![Sen. Matt Dolan (R-Chagrin Falls) testifies for S.B. 221, the so-called "STRONG Ohio" gun violence plan. [Karen Kasler]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/13df20c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/840x630!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fimages%2Fnews%2Fnpr%2F2019%2F11%2F776579232_809318278.jpg)
Democratic state senators had lots of questions for the sponsor of at its first hearing.
They wanted details about the private gun sales background check system it creates as well as it includes.
Democrats on the fired various scenarios at sponsor Sen. Matt Dolan (R-Chagrin Falls), and asked why the bill doesn鈥檛 include mandatory background checks or a stronger red flag law. DeWine had after the mass shooting in Dayton in August.
Dolan told them , and therefore does something 鈥� .
鈥淚f we are going to stop simply because it does not have everything you want, and therefore nothing is better than something, we will fail the people of Ohio," Dolan said.
Dolan says the bill will "thread the needle" between protecting the due process rights of gun owners while restricting the rights of those who shouldn鈥檛 have guns because they鈥檙e considered dangerous to others or themselves.
The bill will have several more hearings, including opportunities for opponents to testify.
, both Republicans - Sens. Frank Hoagland (R-Mingo Junction) and Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering).
Lehner testified at the same committee before Dolan did, on the two bills she's sponsoring with Sen. Cecil Thomas (D-Cincinnati). Those bills and .
While DeWine and Dolan are confident the "STRONG Ohio" bill will pass, , and than it does.
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