Posted October 2, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Lincoln, Nebraska isn’t exactly the kind of place you think of as a hotbed of anti-Second Amendment extremism, to say the least. I mean, it’s Nebraska. Rural states have a tendency to be very pro-gun and Nebraska definitely follows that tendency in most ways. One way they do is having a preemption measure as part of state law. While there are ways communities can pass local gun control ordinances, state law exempts people with concealed carry permits from such measures.

It’ll be interesting to see how state law will reconcile with the measure the Lincoln City Council just approved.

The Lincoln City Council has approved an ordinance requiring gun owners to report gun thefts to police within 48 hours.

The ordinance passed Monday night after being amended to remove a requirement that gun owners had to include the times, places and manner of the thefts. That requirement had raised legal concerns about self-incrimination if the owners hadn’t properly secured their weapons.

A mandatory storage ordinance for weapons stored in vehicles has been delayed as they try to rework the wording of the bill.

However, this alone is stupid to an extreme.

First, there’s the issue of preemption. This is a gun control law …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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