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FarmerRick:
Not to change the subject, but would Omaha's open carry regulations apply if you are outside your home, but stay on your own property? 

Example: open carrying while mowing your lawn.  Not "brandishing" at all, just mowing the grass.

ghknives:
It's my understanding, you do not have to retreat 'from' your home

Dan W:
I would carry concealed in this scenario, and it would be perfectly legal on any land I own or have legal control of, without a permit.

The state has no power to prevent anyone that has not forfeited their rights by criminal acts, from hiding all the firepower they own on their property.

NE Bull:
This brings back a Council question during comittee meeting on Castel Doctorine last session that has burned on me since hearing her ask. (I believe Ashford may have posed a simular scenerio) -Does the fact that someone has broken into your home while you were not there, or that a rash of home invasions in your neighborhood constitute deadly force?-  Of course not!, But  it sure as hell gives you the right to arm yourself should something not feel right or goes bump in the night. Should the noise turn into something/one bent on doing you harm and threatens you with grave bodily harm, then it is them that crossed the line and you would then be well with-in your means to neutralize the threat.  
Could I shoot someone running off of my property after a break-in? Should I shoot someone knocking on my door at night?  No. But bet you me, I will access my most readily firearm and bring my S/A to full RED.

Sorry to hi-jack, but story time; A few years back we had some freak that escaped and went on a theft and shooting rampage throughout the coutryside around Lincoln, and had yet to be apprehended. At the time I was living on a small acreage in Seward County. That night , not having yet heard of the news of his capture, heard a sound like something had hit the patio door. I jumped from bed, acquired my .45 and while my 2 children slept soundly upstairs I accessed my recently aquired training and proceeded to 'clear' my home and recheck every door lock and peeked through a couple of windows and saw nothing, other than my Border Collie who also seemed extra alert, looking around and sniffing the air. Now, obviously from a tactical stand point, the best thing to do in this situation would be not to step outside a small secured home onto 4 acres of open land with a few outbuildings and shadows.  I stayed up a while longer holding sentry on the living room couch and later backed down and went back to bed. But my question is, and to take Hermit's scenerio a little further, would I have been with-in my rights (as faw as the law is concerned) to investigate the noise outside my home, whether or not I had seen something suspicous outside? To go one step further, what if, the perp then attacked me, would I be within the law to defend myself, or since I had 'become the aggressor' in the eyes of the law, would I then be in the wrong by defending myself and my family?







This is why we need a Castle Doctorine on the books in Nebraska!!![/size]

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