Signed by Governor Jim Pillen

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes legal gun owners to conceal carry without a permit.

Highlights:

• Prohibits counties, cities, and villages from regulating the ownership, possession, storage, transportation, sale, or transfer of firearms or other weapons (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits counties, cities, and villages from requiring registration of firearms and other weapons (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that any county, city, or village ordinance, permit, or regulation that is in contradiction with state laws is null and void (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits a minor or otherwise prohibited person from carrying a concealed weapon (Sec. 8). 

• Classifies violation of this act as a Class I misdemeanor for a first offense and as a Class IV felony for the second and the subsequent offense (Sec. 8). 

• Authorizes anybody other than a minor or otherwise prohibited person can carry a concealed handgun anywhere in Nebraska with or without a permit (Sec 9). 

• Prohibits an individual from carrying a concealed handgun into a place where those in charge have prohibited handguns (Sec. 9). 

• Prohibits an individual from carrying a concealed handgun into a law enforcement office (Sec. 9).

• Authorizes employers prohibiting their employees or others from carrying concealed handguns in work vehicles (Sec. 9).  

• Prohibits otherwise authorized individuals from possessing or carrying a concealed handgun when they are consuming alcohol or has any previously consumed alcohol or controlled substance in their blood, urine, or breath (Sec. 10).

• Specifies that an individual is not in violation of this act if the consumed control substance was obtained legally an taken in therapeutic amount (Sec. 10) 

• Classifies a first violation of this act as a Class III misdemeanor (Sec. 10)

• Classifies a second or subsequent violation of this act as a Class I misdemeanor (Sec. 10).

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