carring a co2 pistol while bike riding in pa and ohio, legal?

Is it legal to carry a CO2 pistol in your pack while biking in PA and Ohio?

Aside from the legality issue**

**The only place I'm pretty sure it would be illegal*** is Philadelphia. Airguns are heavily restricted.

If you're riding rural bike trails, I highly doubt it would be illegal***.

***if you're determined. I would recommend calling local law enforcement where you intend to ride and ask.

But

I see absolutely no purpose.

CO2 pistols generally deliver around 3ft-lbs of muzzle energy or less, mostly less.

That's not enough for small game, let alone self defense. If you're just looking for a place to shoot. A public bike trail would not be a good place to be shooting a handgun, even a CO2 one

That extra 1 or 2lbs of weight could/should be something useful for your ride/trip.

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It depends on your town's rules or where you are biking. Also, the BB gun isn't going to do anything to a bear, coyote, wolf, etc. it will just scare a human or small animal and cause long fatal bleeding (squirrel) and tick off a drugged human.

All in all, carry a handgun

No, your state is not a legal open carry state, if you have a permit to carry concealed you can carry something more powerful than a BB gun.