Nebraska: Preemption Clean Up Bill Becomes Law

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5722

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Cornhusker State’s preemption clean-up bill, LB 817, was signed into law yesterday by Governor Dave Heineman (R). This legislation will prohibit cities, counties and any other municipalities from passing any sort of ordinance relating to registration of handguns for concealed carry permit holders.

Approval of this legislation was followed by Attorney General John Bruning’s (R) recent opinion stating that the City of Omaha was violating state laws. During the 2009 legislative session, the legislature passed LB 430, which gave the state the sole authority to regulate statewide concealed carry laws. However, Omaha has refused to acknowledge that this would also apply to the draconian handgun registration requirement and have continued to enforce the ordinance in violation of state law.

the laws are applied from one state to another...from city to city within the same state the laws should be uniform. Ignorance of the law...shouldn't be a license to make the law unnecessarily difficult to be aware of.