Ohio law makes it unlawful to:

• Knowingly solicit, persuade, encourage, or entice a federally licensed firearms dealer or private seller to transfer a firearm or ammunition to any person in a manner prohibited by state or federal law;¹
• Provide materially false information to a private seller or FFL during a gun transaction;²
• Recklessly sell, lend, give, or furnish a firearm to a person prohibited by state law from acquiring a firearm;³
• Possess a firearm with the purpose of selling, lending, giving, or furnishing it to a person prohibited by state law from acquiring a firearm;⁴
• Change, alter, remove, or obliterate the name of the manufacturer, model, manufacturer’s serial number, or other mark of identification on a firearm;⁵
• Possess a firearm knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the name of the manufacturer, model, manufacturer’s serial number, or other mark of identification on the firearm has been changed, altered, removed, or obliterated;⁶
• Sell or furnish a firearm knowing or having reason to know that the person is purchasing or receiving the firearm for the purpose of selling or furnishing the firearm illegally to a person under age 18;⁷
• Sell or furnish a handgun knowing or having reason to know that the person is purchasing or receiving the handgun for the purpose of selling or furnishing the handgun illegally to a person under age 21;⁸
• Purchase or attempt to purchase any firearm with the intent to sell or furnish the firearm illegally to a person under age 18;⁹ and
• Purchase or attempt to purchase any handgun with the intent to sell or furnish the handgun illegally to a person under age 21.¹⁰

Ohio does not:

• Penalize a firearms dealer for failing to conduct the federally required background check on a purchaser;
• Prohibit any person from giving false information or offering false evidence of his or her identity in purchasing or otherwise securing delivery of a firearm; or
• Have any other laws directly aimed at firearms trafficking.

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1. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2923.20(A)(3).[↩]
2. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2923.20(A)(4).[↩]
3. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.20(A)(1).[↩]
4. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.20(A)(2).[↩]
5. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.201(A).[↩]
6. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.201(A).[↩]
7. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.21(A)(4).[↩]
8. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.21(A)(5).[↩]
9. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.21(A)(6).[↩]
10. Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.21(A)(7).[↩]