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Offline bk09

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Lincoln is one backwards town...
« on: February 14, 2012, 04:15:25 PM »
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:
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2012, 04:24:17 PM »
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.
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2012, 04:29:08 PM »
I read that recently, too, while on a ordinance search. 
most of Lincoln's laws are a total WTH!
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2012, 06:19:07 PM »
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;
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2012, 06:50:48 PM »
Is gasoline an "explosive material"
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2012, 06:54:48 PM »
I believe gasoline is classified as a "Flammable" in the HAZMAT book.
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, 06:59:36 PM »
Gunpowder is flammable... then you put it in something that allows pressure to build and it becomes explosive. Wish I enjoyed physics, interesting stuff
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 07:23:36 PM »
I believe DOT refers to smokeless powder as a flammable solid
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2012, 09:50:29 PM »
Yep, and black powder is classified as an explosive, so us BP guys have to jump through hoops to buy it.

That reminds me, I need to put in an order with Upper Missouri Trading Company in Crofton.  My brother lives in Yankton so I usually just have him pick it up for me.  Anyone need some?  Wildgoose?  Monkeyboy?   ;D
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2012, 09:59:26 PM »
I might be interested in a few pounds if your serious and will be coming to the Hastings or Kearney gun shows.
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2012, 10:11:11 PM »
Let me see what I can work out.  I'm not 100% sure on the timing of the whole thing - kind of depends when I next see my brother.
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2012, 10:17:42 PM »
Keep me in mind. My old smoke pole has a big appetite and it's getting tough to find the powder to feed it
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2012, 06:39:59 AM »
Quote from: bkoenig on February 14, 2012, 09:50:29 PM
Yep, and black powder is classified as an explosive, so us BP guys have to jump through hoops to buy it.

That reminds me, I need to put in an order with Upper Missouri Trading Company in Crofton.  My brother lives in Yankton so I usually just have him pick it up for me.  Anyone need some?  Wildgoose?  Monkeyboy?   ;D

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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2012, 07:53:44 AM »
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2012, 02:20:09 PM »
I called the Lincoln PD when I read that a year or so ago... They had no idea what I was talking about. Finally they told me just not to worry about it.

I was concerned about buying gunpowder.
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Re: Lincoln is one backwards town...
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2012, 10:59:52 PM »
Quote from: ghknives on February 14, 2012, 09:59:26 PM
I might be interested in a few pounds if your serious and will be coming to the Hastings or Kearney gun shows.

You can get black powder at Old West Guns in Kearney (the last I knew).

Old West Guns 
924 Central Avenue, Kearney, NE 68847
(308) 237-7900
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