COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday on a state law that criminalizes carrying a firearm in a bar or other establishment serving liquor when the carrier also consumes alcohol. The oral arguments will take place not in the court's usual Columbus home, but at Defiance High School, as part of the justices’ traveling civic education program.

The case, State of Ohio v. Elijah Striblin, centers on whether the state's prohibition on combining guns and alcohol violates the right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The central issue is the legal standard courts must use to judge modern gun regulations, a standard recently established by the U.S. Supreme Court that looks to America’s historical tradition o

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