Nebraska eyes preemption.

[beevul]

Nebraska lawmakers set sights on gun laws

Posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 4:00 pm

By Joe Duggan

World-Herald News Service

LINCOLN — Battle lines over guns are being drawn in the Nebraska Legislature even before the opening gavel drops today on the 2016 session.

Leading the list of gun-related bills is one that would prohibit local governments from regulating most aspects of firearm ownership. Also on the firearms agenda: legislation that would reduce the number of gun-free zones, where holders of concealed handgun permits can’t carry their weapons.

But the bill targeting local gun regulations will probably be first up for debate because it made it through committee last session and will be designated a priority by Sen. David Schnoor of Scribner. If passed, Legislative Bill 289 would override handgun registration ordinances in Omaha and Lincoln.

Nebraska is one of eight states where local officials can enact their own gun regulations, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a national organization that advocates for gun control. Iowa is among the 42 states with firearm pre-emption laws, so called because the state law “pre-empts” local ordinances when it comes to gun regulations.

Sen. Laura Ebke of Crete introduced the Nebraska pre-emption bill last year, and it was advanced to the floor by the Judiciary Committee. The bill would prevent local governments from regulating the ownership or possession of firearms but would still allow local restrictions on firing guns within municipal limits.


http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/regional/nebraska-lawmakers-set-sights-on-gun-laws/article_aeafc7b8-b49e-11e5-a0bc-6f52b4b5961d.html

And yet, there are those that will oppose to this, because gunz.

[Human101948]

1. Because gunz make our country is a bad joke...

A number of gun advocates consider ownership a birthright and an essential part of the nation's heritage. The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population, has about 35–50 percent of the world's civilian-owned guns, according to a 2007 report by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey. It ranks number one in firearms per capita. The United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate among the world's most developed nations.

http://www.cfr.org/society-and-culture/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons/p29735

[friendly_iconoclast]

2. Do you have a comment relevant to the article linked to in the OP?

If so, we'd love to see it. Action-free pontification hasn't really served your cause very well...

[Human101948]

5. Oh my God, I am cut to the quick.

Is thast the royal "we?"

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. More an editorial 'we', I suppose. Nonetheless, the question remains...

[Human101948]

7. And still without recognition of an obsessive complusive culture...

Your schoolmarmish scolding is laughable. You must be a graduate of the Ted Cruz school of debate.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. A propensity for threadjacking, along with a unearned sense of self-importance?

The mind boggles contemplating the ratio of verbiage to actual results from you lot

[Human101948]

9. You love it. It gives you a chance to bloviate and feel superior...

in your delusions.

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. The gibes of the politically ineffectual carry no sting

You lot mistakenly equate weight of verbiage for real-world results.

[Duckhunter935]

10. just another one that the only thing

you can do is post insults. Color me surprised.

[beevul]

3. Only because you hate 'gunz'.

A number of gun advocates consider ownership a birthright and an essential part of the nation's heritage.

That's because in this nation, it generally IS a birthright, and an essential part of the nation's heritage.

When we talk about rights and gun laws in this nation, we obviously aren't talking about the rest of the world.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

11. As Washington said:

[DonP]

4. We're #1, we're #1!

Of course your comment is utterly irrelevant to the OP.

But thanks for confirming our leadership.

[hack89]

13. Constitutional rights are our birthrights. Nt

[Eleanors38]

15. The only joke is what passes wind for a gun-control "movement."

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. We have preemption here in Oregon, save for one aspect (open carry).

Local jurisdictions have the option of prohibiting open carry (Portland does). Other than that, state gun laws preempt local ones in Oregon.