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Governor Pillen Signs Constitutional Carry Bill Into Law

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen signed LB77 Constitutional Carry into Nebraska law. LB77 allows law-abiding Nebraskans who are 21 years or older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit. Governor Pillen was joined by the bill introducer Sen. Tom Brewer and state senators...

..."Nebraskans should not have to pay the government a fee or ask permission for constitutional rights," said Senator Brewer...

Amen. And amen. Color me surprised that largely rural Nebraska wasn't among the first - as opposed to the 27th state - to embrace this iteration of common sense. But the reality is NE, like most (if not all) states is contaminated with powerful socialist enclaves: metropolitan Omaha, home of rabid gun controller Warren Buffet, and the college town of Lincoln, home of the usual Woke Totalitarian Academia.

Congratulations to level-headed Nebraskans who didn't back down, and continued chipping away at their resident leftist authoritarians. Well done!

 

I’m a Nebraskan. I was pleasantly surprised this eventually passed. Yes, with Omaha and Lincoln that is more progressive than Omaha now I thought it would never happen.

Nebraska is an odd state. It’s red as red can be and mostly “conservative”. But we have socialized public power statewide. We split electoral college votes. We have a unicameral legislature. A lot of things we have the progressives say they want. But it’s a red state so they hate it anyway.

We defeated an attempt to ban suppressors in the state a while back. We still have handgun purchase permit requirements. It will be interesting to see if that gets abolished now.

 

What kind of requirements, out of curiosity?

 

Are you really going to let them put your name on a list?

 

I'm curious, what is so important to block banning silencers? The only uses for them seem to me to be allowing criminals to escape detection and facilitate their flight.

 

You must live in the city.

Where I live a Saturday morning duck hunt wakes up the whole neighborhood. It'd be nice to pop varmits in the garden without upsetting the neighbor's useless dog too.

That, and who the xxxx does anybody think they are that they believe they have a right to another man's possesions?

 

I spent about 15 years on the radio, and have worked with countless people whose hearing was compromised as a result. I always took precautions to insure that didn't happen to me. Ditto for the suppressors I own. The suppressor for my Ruger 10/22 serves three purposes:

1. Hearing protection
2. Recoil reduction
3. Doesn't alarm the neighbors when I'm blasting critters out of the garden

To be honest, there's not a lot of recoil with the .22 The AR is a different story. My target reacquisition is noticeably superior with the suppressor than without.

But there are some neighbors who'll be pissed off regardless. I have a derringer loaded with .410 that we keep as a snake gun. A few years ago one of our neighbors dropped by to return the hedge clippers he'd borrowed. The derringer isn't suppressed (duh) and he was able to track me down in the backyard when he heard me blast a rattler. He was incensed. Not by the noise, but becuase I'm so "bloodthirsty." He hasn't been back. If he returns, I'll tell him to piss off - despite my wife's recommendation that I defer to my better angels.

 

To purchase handguns you either have to have a concealed carry permit from Nebraska or a handgun purchase permit. If I remember right the purchase permit cost about $10 and you got it through the local sheriff. It took a couple weeks I think they probably did a NICS and checked through their local records to see if you are a troublemaker etc. You had to renew every few years.

 

If you shoot critters in your yard you use a shotgun not a pistol or rifle that would likely be spewing bullets into your neighbor's yards and frankly using a silencer so they don't know that you're shooting up the neighborhood is evil and taking away their chance of survival. If you want to claim there's no risk to the neighbors because they're far enough away then noise would also not be an issue. I grew up on a farm and the only time i recall my father being mad, furious in fact, was when we were back of the barn and some idiot shot just above our heads with a rifle after dad knocked me down. The sheriff's deputy was not amused either.
As to protecting your hearing where on earth are you shooting that headphones that don't rapidly wear out like silencers are not a much better solution? Nope, silencers are for hoodlums and TV shows.

 

Shouldn’t believe the stuff in the movies.

A silencer makes firearms hearing safe. That’s about it.

I purchased my first suppressor after I had a dog go through a glass window when I had to euthanize a cow. It’s the responsible thing to do when shooting around domesticated animals. Now I don’t have to worry about my dogs or spooking a horse through a barbwire fence or anything when I have to shoot.

Suppression also helps when eliminating pests like prairie dogs. They still hear the shots but the concussion is reduced enough the fear factor is lessened and they spend less time holed up. And again, if the cattle are around they don’t get stressed either.

Animals are a bit like the stone deaf uncle I had. He couldn’t hear a thing but on the Fourth of July he’d flinch every time a firework exploded. He about exited his skin once when someone a 1/4 mile away set off a little homemade cannon. The concussion is sensed by the body even though the auditory nerves are not stimulated. Animals are frightened by this concussive blast as much or more than the “sound” through auditory nerves. A suppressor lessens the concussion (pressure waves) so there is less stress even though the report is very audible.

Suppressors are sold off the shelf with no legal restrictions in some European countries that highly regulate firearms. Suppressors are just like mufflers for cars. They are the responsible, ethical, and healthy thing to do.

 

Silencers don’t rapidly wear out. Where do you come up with this stuff?

 

He told you he shot a snake with a shot shell and you lecture about him doing something wrong? You guys would get a lot more traction if you knew something about the subject.

 

Hmm. I use a silenced .22 Ruger rifle to dispatch the prairie dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, etc. I guess it's a miracle I've never "spewed bullets" into my neighbors' yards. PRAISE JESUS! lol.

Shooting a prairie dog in my backyard = shooting up the neighborhood. Thanks for clearing that up. And it's evil. Okey dokey, Smokey. He's here all week, folks. Try the veal!

I'd like to believe StillBlue is just trolling, but I suspect he's serious. I'd love to hear him explain how one is less likely to strike an unintended target with a shotgun than with a pistol or rifle.That would be worth the price of admission.

 

Well if you do a lot of target shooting it makes it a lot easier on the ears, even with ear protection some of the smaller velocity varmint rounds are hell on the ears. Just by way of example a .22 magnum is a whole nother level of ear pain over a .38 special.

 

My bedside gun is a GP100, loaded with .357 magnums. My only qualm is that if I ever have to use it indoors, my ears will be ringing for a week. I know: get a suppressor, Einstein. There's one at the range that I've tried, but it seems too cumbersome for emergency deployment in the middle of the night. I rationalize that justification by speculating that even if I miss, the noise alone will trigger the intruder to sh!t his pants and run the other way.

 

It's funny. The "responsible" gun owners on this thread appear to be anything but responsible.

 

In what way? Any specific examples?

 

How, exactly?

 

From heller.
(2) Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues.

 

Maybe another guy who doesn’t know a .410 is a shot shell?

 

That’s why it’s still illegal in Nebraska to carry concealed if you are prohibited by law from doing so. Same in other permit less carry states.

 

Is that directed at me, or @Green Man ? Or both of us?

 

The Stillblue dude.

You said you shot a rattler with .410 in a pistol and he chewed you out for not using a shotgun. I found it amusing.

 

I tagged Green Man, meant to tag the blue dude. My bad. I'm still not convinced that the blue dude isn't trolling us. Generally speaking, nobody is that openly ignorant/stupid.

 

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