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bk09:
Hey guys I am going to be transferring from UNL to UNO this fall and want to get some info on Obamahas gun registration. I Googled "omaha gun registration" and got the opd site but it seems to have left me hanging and seemed vague. If I move to Omaha and already own a handgun am I supposed to go pay that BS fee and get all the handguns registered? Has anybody fought this registration? Because mandating $15 to just tell them you are buying a gun seems highly illegal, this isn't an NFA item for crying out loud. Any input on these awful laws would be helpful. Oh and one more thing, if I do have to pay the $15 per gun if I make Omaha my residence could I get around it by saying my permanent address is still my parents house in Columbus since I will just be a student in town?

P.S. (getting a little long winded): Just saw something on that interweb thing saying a concealed carry permit holder does not need to register any guns with the Omaha Police? One more reason to get that when I can...

FarmerRick:
Easiest solution:  Don't move into Omaha.   :o
Move to Western Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, Washington County Nebraska or Pottawatamie County Iowa. 

The decrease in cost of living would likely make up for the increase in fuel cost.  Just an idea.  ;D


Other than that, I'm pretty sure that you would be required to register even though you still use Columbus as your permanent place of residence.

SemperFiGuy:
It ain't the location of the residence.

It's the location of the gun.

Sec. 20-251. - Required. 
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to own, have possession of, or maintain control over any concealable firearm which has not been registered to said person with the chief of police in accordance with this division, except when such possession or control is with the knowledge and express consent of the person in whose name such concealable firearm is registered.

Bring gun into Omaha city limits, register it and pay the $10.00 fee.   (Unless.........you hold CHP.   Then no registration is required.)

Guy got busted year or so ago.   Traffic stop while driving from outside city into Omaha.   Cop somehow learned of .357Mag in trunk.   Wrote ticket.   Guy guilty.    Had to pay fine.   If he'd been traveling through Omaha to Council Bluffs, he could have claimed federal travel rules (Title 18/926a).

But.........Omaha was his destination.    Unregistered gun not legal here.   The instant the gun crosses the line.

Bottom Line:     Everybody please be nice and pay the registration fee because we need the money for firemen's pensions and to fix all our sewers under federal mandate.    And to pay the mayor's high-paid staff.

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AAllen:
Omaha's registration has just had some changes, the fee went from $10 to $15 is one of those changes.  But otherwise what SFG said is correct it is where the gun is, if it comes into Omaha City limits it must be registered.  Exceptions would be you have a CCW, then they ask for voluntary registration which is free.  The only other exception, and you most likely would be ticketed and have your firearm confiscated would be under the federal travel rules. 

We have been fighting Omaha's rules and infact the recent change was due to our forcing the issue with a lawsuit.  We did get a little bit out of them in the removal of the 18" rule, now it's only handguns and NFA (short barreled rifles/shotguns) that they require be registered.

SemperFiGuy:
Thanks go out to AndyA and the NFOA for their efforts to rid us of this unfair, illegal, and burdensome law.

Interesting to scan Omaha Municipal Codes 20-251 thru 20-259.    Nowhere is there any grace period [like 30 days] for registration of the handgun.

So---Technically, it appears that a person could be busted walking out of the gun store in Omaha immediately after the purchase of a new handgun.

Cincinnati used to have a city ordinance that people driving in Cincinnati were required to have a Cincinnati City Tax Sticker on their car window.    If you lived in the 'burbs and came into Cincy, you could get a ticket for no sticker.   I did.   Later that law was thrown out.   The City of Omaha handgun registration law should get the same treatment.

 :POne singular, saluatory effect of the Omaha law is the incredibly low number of handgun murders, shootings, robberies, and firearms-related assaults in this city.   Shows that those Anti-gun laws really work as intended!!.:P


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