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SBarry:
The way the laws are written, you can have a gun in your glove box, but not your center console, right? We need a senator to introduce a bill that cleans up the law and makes it legal to carry a gun in the console. Am I correct in this?

Dan W:
No, I don't think there is any restriction on where you conceal a handgun if you have a CHP.

There are some rules about locking a concealed handgun in the vehicle , when the vehicle is parked in the lot of a place or premises where CCW is banned. 


--- Quote ---(3) A permitholder carrying a concealed handgun in a
vehicle or on his or her person while riding in or on a vehicle 
into or onto any parking area, which is open to the public, used by
any location listed in subdivision (1)(a) of this section, does not
violate this section if, prior to exiting the vehicle, the handgun
is locked inside the glove box, trunk, or other compartment of the
vehicle, a storage box securely attached to the vehicle, or, if the
vehicle is a motorcycle, a hardened compartment securely attached
to the motorcycle. This subsection does not apply to any parking
area used by such location when the carrying of a concealed handgun
into or onto such parking area is prohibited by federal law.
--- End quote ---

This was just changed with LB430

So as I see it a locking center console would be OK in this case. Other wise if you are in the car, the center console is OK if you have a CHP.

SBarry:
What about those without a CHP?

Dan W:
without a CHP you can not conceal in the glove box, or the center console, or under a newspaper or inside a gym bag. That would constitute illegal concealed carry.

 Open carry requires the handgun be kept in plain sight.

There is a definition that states that if any part of a handgun is visible it is not concealed

Poor Man:
I believe there is a clause in the CCW bill that if there are more than one person in a vehicle, the concealed firearm must be physically on the person with the CCW, otherwise a person w/out a permit could be considered in violation if the firearm was in glove-box etc.

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