Judge blocks Omaha's ban on guns in public places while lawsuit challenging it moves forward
Judge blocks Omaha's ban on guns in public places while lawsuit challenging it moves forward
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's largest city won't be able to enforce its ban on guns on all public property, including parks and sidewalks, while a lawsuit challenging that restriction moves forward.
Nebraska’s largest city won’t be able to enforce its ban on guns on all public property, including parks and sidewalks, while a lawsuit challenging that restriction moves forward.
Douglas County District Judge LeAnne Srb issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking that ban, but she refused to put Omaha’s restrictions on “ghost guns” and bump stocks on hold.
The Liberty Justice Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association arguing that the city restrictions violate a new state law passed last year that allows people to carry concealed guns across the state without a permit and without the need to complete a gun safety course. A similar lawsuit challenging gun restrictions in Lincoln remains pending.
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These sorts of bans are silly. Anyone who wishes to carry, will do so. Unless you're going to stop and frisk people, and we know how that goes, you can't tell they're carrying.
Yes, some dumbasses "print", whatever. We gonna expect cops to deal with that fairly?! "He appeared to be carrying marijuana a gun! So we shot his ass."
People like me, a legal gun owner probably won't break the law on this one. So who does that leave carrying in the space we wished to restrict? Scofflaws, at best.
I have no idea what problem this tries to address.
Well. Kids keep being murdered in schools. We've tried "thoughts and prayers" and "more guns", and that really hasn't solved the problem.
I think folks are just trying to limit access to guns except in specific conditions. You know - trying something different.
Omaha had the “something different” up until just a couple of years ago. We already PROVED it didn’t work. It’s a failed policy.
Legal CCW in public spaces is the something different / something new.
Legal concealed carry has been the norm for the majority of the existence of this country. What the hell are you talking about?
Okay so wouldn't that imply that there's something else going on causing the shootings since the school shootings haven't been like this since for the majority of the existence of the country? How many school shootings happen at the hands of ccw permit holders? Most of the time it seems they're not even using concealable weapons.
Yeah, I don't think CCW and school shootings are really overlapping issues, except maybe in the most general sense of the perceived need for a gun. CCW most closely relates to gun crime and violence on the whole.
Legal concealed carry has been the norm for the majority of the existence of this country.
No, it hasn't and that's a matter of historical fact. In 1990 only FIVE states had legal Concealed Carry and that didn't reach 25 until nearly 2000. (See Figure 2) Regardless of that we aren't talking about the whole country we are talking about Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha passed a city wide ban on Concealed Carry somewhere back in the 1960s so it had been 100% illegal there until 2006 when Senator Ernie Chambers from Omaha was term limited in the Nebraska State Legislature. That was the year that the State of Nebraska was finally able to pass Concealed Carry legislation.
What the hell are you talking about?
Actual history, you?
From 1776 to 1870 there were no statewide concealed carry bans anywhere in the US (Kentucky was the first). Even then open carry was not restricted. It wasn't necessary since concealing a gun was considered dishonorable and something criminals would do.
From 1776 to 1870 there were no statewide concealed carry bans anywhere in the US
That's only 24 years, pretty far from "Legal concealed carry has been the norm for the majority of the existence of this country."
Even then open carry was not restricted.
We weren't discussing Open Carry.
Fact is that for the majority of the past 100 years legal Concealed Carry wasn't an option in most places and in Omaha, Nebraska specifically that didn't change until 2006. I stand by my original statement. Legal Concealed Carry in public spaces is the something different / something new.
94 years, not 24 years. And the majority of states had it much longer.