Judge blocks Omaha's ban on guns in public places while lawsuit challenging it moves forward
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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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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.
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.