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Aguila Blanca's take is "correct" but what really happened is...well, funnier.
Us gunnies sued in the Klein case for access to concealed carry permits. The 2003 Ohio Supreme Court decision said that we lost - but in their reasoning behind the loss, they noted that "well everybody knows open carry is legal, therefore the right to bear arms isn't being completely stepped on" (paraphrase).
Well everybody did NOT know that. The various police chiefs and politicians of the bigger cities and counties all looked at each and went "oh [bleep]" while the gunnies all looked at each and went "no [bleep]? Hell yeah!"
Basically, the previous practice of arresting for "disturbing the peace" came to a crashing halt, which led to the open carry rallies in happy laps around the various state capitals and a CCW law passed in 2004 that in turn did NOT invalidate the open carry ruling/comment in Klein.
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Jim March
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