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Omaha Handgun Registration Denial?
David Hineline:
With your state issued purchase permit you can buy a longgun, shotgun or rifle on the spot with no instant background check, same thing would go for buying a handgun from an individual anywhere in NE, or a firearms dealer out of the city limits of Omaha, but without the carry permit you are supposed to register the handgun you bought if you reside in the city limits once you bring the handgun into the city. Nothing is better than a shotgun for home defense.
I am not exactly sure what OPD can do when you try to register a handgun you already legally own into the city as the purchase has already happened and they could not stop the purchase. How can they deny registration of something one already legally owns? Others might know what happens in that situation.
RLMoeller:
--- Quote from: David Hineline on November 14, 2017, 11:34:17 PM ---With your state issued purchase permit you can buy a longgun, shotgun or rifle on the spot with no instant background check, same thing would go for buying a handgun from an individual anywhere in NE, or a firearms dealer out of the city limits of Omaha, but without the carry permit you are supposed to register the handgun you bought if you reside in the city limits once you bring the handgun into the city. Nothing is better than a shotgun for home defense.
I am not exactly sure what OPD can do when you try to register a handgun you already legally own into the city as the purchase has already happened and they could not stop the purchase. How can they deny registration of something one already legally owns? Others might know what happens in that situation.
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Yes, they can and they do. They will either keep the gun or release it to someone they deem appropriate (back to the seller? Surrendered to a dealer?). They deny registration for factors that exceed state and federal prohibiting factors. They deny registration to anyone with a past citation for marijuana. They also deny to anyone the "suspect" has "an association" with a gang member. Your cousin running with the wrong crowd? Screw you, no gun for you. Over half of all denials by OPD are overturned on appeal. I have no idea how many are appealed. So it's possible that only 60 percent are appealed and with 50 percent of denials being overturned, that would be a very high percentage overturned. I believe they count on many folks not appealing their decision.
OTownPyro:
Not much update as of now, but we have a plan in place. Black Friday we will be purchasing a shotgun, as well as the handgun I had wanted. I'll go to register, and probably get denied. If I don't get denied, I'll work straight for my CCW and hold off any purchases until then. If I get denied, I will immediately appeal. If the appeal goes through, same thing, go straight for CCW to bypass all the illegal nonsense from OPD. If I get denied again, my friend will come with me and I can use his firearm to get my CCW, then bypass the illegal nonsense. In the mean time, I will have a 12g to keep the house safe while I'm at work.
It's a hassle, but I actually believe in my Creator endowed rights and have no intention of letting anti-American individuals remove that from me.
omaharj:
--- Quote from: OTownPyro on November 15, 2017, 09:56:54 PM ---Not much update as of now, but we have a plan in place. Black Friday we will be purchasing a shotgun, as well as the handgun I had wanted. I'll go to register, and probably get denied. If I don't get denied, I'll work straight for my CCW and hold off any purchases until then. If I get denied, I will immediately appeal. If the appeal goes through, same thing, go straight for CCW to bypass all the illegal nonsense from OPD. If I get denied again, my friend will come with me and I can use his firearm to get my CCW, then bypass the illegal nonsense. In the mean time, I will have a 12g to keep the house safe while I'm at work.
It's a hassle, but I actually believe in my Creator endowed rights and have no intention of letting anti-American individuals remove that from me.
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Wow! Just wow. Well.....Good Luck
SemperFiGuy:
David Hineline, et.al.
--- Quote ---I am not exactly sure what OPD can do when you try to register a handgun you already legally own into the city as the purchase has already happened and they could not stop the purchase. How can they deny registration of something one already legally owns? Others might know what happens in that situation.
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I maintain both NE CHP and Omaha Handgun Identification Card state and city permits. And live within Omaha city limits. Nevertheless, for reasons which are abhorrent to some of the strong 2A Folks on this Forum, I still choose to register my handguns with the Omaha Police Department. Registration for NE CHP holders is free, waiving the $15/gun registration fee, but such is not my reason.
Anyhow, I took a handgun that I had owned for some time to OPD at 15th and Howard for registration. Counter Guy, not a cop, started asking me a line of aggressive questions about where I had originally purchased the handgun, how long I had owned it, why I wanted to have it, why I wanted to register it if I didn't have to do so, blah, blah, blah.
I told him that these questions are not part of the statutory Omaha MuniCode and that we should proceed with the registration of the handgun. He then gave off some strong negative vibrations and some sour expressions, but he did indeed proceed to register the handgun. Such was my experience. A lot depends on who is working the counter when you go in to OPD Headquarters. I've found the female clerks to have much more good sense and customer orientation than the men. And bureaucratic power tripping is a common human failing: a strong argument against the administrative state.
Always good to have written documentation of your ownership of the firearm. In the above case, I did not. And often do not, being rather sloppy on firearm records. Too much fun to get the gun and start messing with it first.
FWIW,
sfg
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