COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reviewing a Facebook video from the leader of a strident pro-gun group who used violent imagery while criticizing Gov. Mike DeWine’s new gun-control proposal.

DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said someone on Lt. Gov. Jon Husted’s staff noticed the video, posted Wednesday by Chris Dorr, the leader of Ohio Gun Owners.

Tierney said the patrol, which provides security detail for the governor’s office, has not opened a criminal investigation “at this time.”

“When there’s anything that’s questionable related to safety issues or threats, we refer it to our security team, and let our security team make the assessment on whether to take it any further than that,” Tierney said. “So that’s what we did in this case.”

In the video, Dorr, while launching a fundraising pitch, described what he said was his group’s approach to negotiating with Ohio politicians.

“You do this or there could be political bodies lying all over the ground,” Dorr said more than an hour into the 80-minute video. “Maybe not this election, maybe the next election, but you’ll get yourself added to a list, my friend. And at some point when you come across the target field, we gun owners will pull the trigger and leave the corpse for the buzzards.”

He said the election is the “choke point for these politicians.”

“We leverage that in the legislative process to get votes or no votes. That’s what this organization is all about,” he said.

Dorr elsewhere in the video called for the state legislature to impeach DeWine over his plan, which includes expanded background checks on gun sales, and the creation of a legal process that would allow judges to order the seizure of guns from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.

DeWine proposed the plan on Tuesday in the aftermath of last week’s mass shooting in Dayton.

Ohio Gun Owners was launched in the last several years, and is among the state’s various grassroots pro-Second Amendment groups. Dorr participated in a news conference in 2018 during the governor’s race in which then-Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who was running for governor, posed with a shotgun on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse.

Other state gun groups have described Ohio Gun Owners as marginal. But Dorr, who is a regular Statehouse presence, has worked with Republican state lawmakers who advanced legislation this year that loosened restrictions on guns. Dorr’s criticism of a provision in a “constitutional carry” gun bill — the change would have kept in place a requirement that gun sellers hand out pamphlets summarizing state gun laws — led House Speaker Larry Householder to say he was pulling the bill for further review.

Dorr had said the pamphlet requirement — moved to be added to the bill by two Republican state legislators but later removed again — would “get Ohio gun owners killed,” since it would include a description of the state’s duty to retreat law. The constitutional carry bill favored by DeWine otherwise would allow all Ohio adults to carry concealed shotguns, rifles or handguns without a permit and mandatory training.