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LB430 UPDATE 5/13/09: LB430 Passes 45-3; thank the Senators
Chris Z:
As I read the law, as long as you don't leave the vehicle with the firearm on school grounds you are FINE. If you leave the vehicle it must be locked up in a container, or glove box
bullit:
Now, to muddy the confusion even more......there are no laws prohibiting OC in Nebraska. I swing buy the campus bookstore and leave my gun on the front seat (I would not really do that, but just playing devil's advocate). Is LB430 intended to apply only to CHP holders?
See what happens when you can't look to other states who are getting right for guidance?
Aldo:
Yes, FLUFF, as CZ noted, one must have the the handgun already locked up prior to exiting the vehicle. Because this issue came up during the debate on the Senate floor about the public getting frightened if someone should leave their vehicle and then take out their handgun and then place it in the trunk, Sen Christensen made a Floor Amendment (FA31) that was adopted Thursday (April 23) to take care of this issue along with the one about the saddlebag on a motorcycle.
Here is Sen Christensen's Floor Amendment:
Floor Amendment To LB430
Introduced by Christensen, 44.
Amend AM1132 On page 1, line 8 after the word "if" strike "upon" and insert "prior to" On page
1, line 11 strike "saddle bag or" and insert "hardened" On page 2, line 1 strike the word "upon" and
insert "prior to"
So, 2 things that come out of the Floor Amendment:
1) as CZ noted, the individual must lock up the gun inside the vehicle "prior to" exiting the vehicle; and 2) no more considering a locked saddlebag for a motorcycle...there must now be a "hardened" compartment on the motorcycle since there was a concern that the saddlebag could easily be cut off from the motorcycle and stolen (with the handgun in it).
Actually, a third thing that comes out of that FA31.....Sen Christensen's continued willingness to cooperatively work with his peers and the constituents. I personally find it incredible that he found the university folks and Chief Cassidy amenable to wordsmithing with him; being a university employee, I NEVER would have imagined that the NU folks would have given an inch about this issue. So, I am one happy dude. Way cool! 8)
P.S. Sorry that my notes from the debate didn't include FA31.....Sen Christensen had his office aides working feverishly on the side doing some wordsmithing based on the real-time concerns going on....and I must have blinked....or more likely nodded off from the doldrum of Sen Nantke's and Sen McGill's nonsensical ramblings...and Sen Christensen must have slipped that FA31 in there; pretty smart move on his part to hold the coalition of supporters together!!
Josh1776:
If a school sponsors an activity at a public location, such as a car wash in the local Wal-mart parking lot, would a CCW permit holder be guilty of illegal possesion of a firearm if the CCW permit holder entered the parking lot during the time of the school sponsored car wash? Reference Final Reading copy of LB430, Paragraph 28-1204.04(1), Page 22 Lines 20-23 and Page 23 Lines 16-21. It appears to me the school carry prohibition in LB430 applies to school sponsored activies on and off school property. Am I reading this correctly?
Chris Z:
Foggy language, no question. I think mainly meant to address school football games and such..
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