*Instead of a concealed handgun permit it should be a concealed weapon permit. It isn't that carrying something other than a handgun is a big deal to me, it's that restrictions like that should not be placed on those who have bought a license to exercise a Constitutional right, which by the way is not a right to keep and bear handguns specifically but to keep and bear arms. It is not a privilege to be bestowed on us by our caring big brother in the statehouse however he sees fit; it's a right that has already been infringed on far too much by having to get a license to exercise it in the first place. So let's end the arbitrary and idiotic language that only allows a handgun to be carried concealed.
*No license should be required to carry concealed in Nebraska, but one can be issued for those who want one so they can carry in other states. Having to get a license to bear arms is like having to get a license to attend church or read a book.
*There should be no duty to inform. It might be a good thing to do as a courtesy but should not be required. A law-abiding citizen exercising his right to bear arms is not a danger to police because he is exercising that right, and a citizen who is not law-abiding will not obey the law about informing the policeman in the first place (and probably doesn't have a license anyway). How about a law saying that all Moslems have to be registered, and have to inform any law enforcement officer they encounter that they are Islamic; that makes about as much sense (actually it makes more sense). The citizen is no more a danger to an agent of the state than the state is to the citizen, and our laws should reflect that, in order to keep us off the slippery slope so many others have fallen victim to.
*Instead of making places that derive above a certain amount of income from serving alcohol legally required to be felon-friendly by making it illegal for law-abiding citizens to carry in them, treat carrying under the influence like driving under the influence. Carrying a concealed weapon is not more dangerous than driving a car. It isn't ok to drink when you have a gun, but it isn't ok to drink and drive either, and the one is not worse than the other. The difference in treatment is based on a false (apparent) assumption that driving is more a right than bearing arms, which I guess is considered a privilege.
There should be no place where concealed weapons can not be carried except those mandated by federal law (and those laws should be changed too, but are beyond the scope of what our legislature can do). The only penalty for carrying into a place where an anti-gun bigot has put up a sign saying no guns allowed should be that the bigot can make you leave.
*Any law against any kind of knife, including switchblades and gravity knives, is an illegal infringement on the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by both our federal and state constitutions, and any city council, mayor, police chief, sheriff, police officer, or any bureaucrat who tries to infringe on that right should be sentenced to jail; this goes beyond just knives, and should be written into Nebraska law.
That's all I can think of for now. Maybe other members have some ideas.
