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bk09:
I was just reading some Lincoln ordinances regarding weapons and ran across this most likely unknown law.

9.36.090 Transporting Explosives; Port of Entry; Routes; Penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to convey, or transport through any street, avenue, alley, or other public place within the city, any dynamite, nitro-glycerine, gunpowder, guncotton, TNT, or any other explosive material, including fireworks of every nature or description, without first having stopped at a port of entry hereinafter designated, and having notified the Police
Department of the city of their intention to move said vehicle within or through the city and requesting a police escort. Such vehicle, or vehicles, shall follow such route, or routes, as may be designated to them by such police escort. The City Council shall, by resolution, designate ports of entry at which all such vehicles shall stop. (Ord. 15625 §9; July 9, 1990: P.C. §9.28.150: Ord. 5633
§§ 1,2; October 21, 1953).

So apparently we reloaders are breaking the law everytime we buy gunpowder in Lincoln, and everybody who buys fireworks is breaking the law... I should be a smart alec and approach a police station asking for an escort of my gunpowder  :laugh:

Gunscribe:
It is still against the law to whistle underwater in Vermont too. The original ordinance was crafted in 1953 when Lincoln Airfield was still operational. It was meant to keep commercial semis loaded with that stuff from populated areas.

But you are right a strict reading could be used to prosecute law abiding reloaders as it does not specify quantities.

NE Bull:
I read that recently, too, while on a ordinance search. 
most of Lincoln's laws are a total WTH!

Gunscribe:
Yes, but in Lincoln it is legal (unless the ordinance was changed in the last four years) to discharge a firearm in your domicile.

9.36.080 Exemptions.
The provisions of Sections 9.36.010 and 9.36.050 shall not apply to
(a) licensed shooting galleries or archeries;
(b) any range operated, supervised, and maintained by the United States of America, the State of Nebraska, or any governmental subdivision thereof, when in connection with an educational or training program and upon property owned or leased by the United States of America, the State of Nebraska, or subdivision or agency thereof;
(c) a private building within which the instrument is fired, discharged, or operated in such a manner as to prevent the missile projected from traversing in the space outside of the private building;

Dan W:
Is gasoline an "explosive material"

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