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General Categories => Newsworthy => Topic started by: Dan W on April 01, 2013, 09:53:10 PM
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Lincoln, NE, April 1, 2013 – The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA), announced that today the NFOA and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the State of Nebraska’s statutory prohibition on issuing concealed handgun permits to legal non-citizens for self defense.
The case seeks to overturn the State’s non-citizen concealed carry ban on constitutional grounds, specifically the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. The plaintiff is Carlos Nino De Rivera Lajous, a Mexican citizen who legally resides in Nebraska. He has lived legally in Lincoln, Nebraska since 1990 and received his permanent resident visa (green card) in 1991.
“Mr. Lajous has worked as a machinist for an aviation company in Lincoln for fourteen years,” stated NFOA President Wesley Dickinson. “He has also earned three associate degrees from Central Community College in Hastings and he has family in the area.”
Defendants in the case are Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and Nebraska State Patrol Superintendent David Sankey, in their respective official capacities.
“At issue here is long-settled law,” Dickinson continued. “The State of Nebraska cannot, under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, deny a legal Permanent Resident Alien his fundamental Second Amendment rights. This includes prohibiting Mr. Lajous, who can legally openly carry a handgun in the State of Nebraska, from applying for, passing the background checks, and obtaining a concealed handgun permit from the Nebraska State Patrol to carry a concealed handgun for his own personal protection.”
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This is great news. However my BS meter is set on high today.
This seems real... GA. I hate April fools day.
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This is no joke, it is a real lawsuit
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This is not a drill
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Awesome!
With what happened with the fake press release today about the keystone pipeline, I'm hopping the folks in charge around here are way smarter than that. And it turns out they are!
Thanks guys!
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Cool. 8)
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At first, thought was an 4/1 joke, but as soon as saw the subject matter I knew it was serious (NFOA has been discussing this for a while).
Get'em boys <3
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Good! Excellent suit! Having spent many years as a "legal alien" in other countries, I always appreciated their extending firearms rights to me. We should do the same to legal residents of our country as well.
I'm surprised the NE law was even written this way in the first place. A business owner cannot even discriminate lawfully between US Citizen and legal foreign job candidates, so I don't know how the State of Nebraska thinks it can parse out 2A rights differently between different groups.
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South Dakota was sued about this very subject last year. They changed their law rather quickly.... ;)
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Every person in this country, or merely passing through it, deserves the FULL protection of the Constitution. Deny it to anyone and eventually reasons will be found to deny it to everyone.
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Grey - that is the best reply I have seen on this subject. Thanks
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http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Gun-Rights-Groups-Sue-Over-Conceal-Gun-Law-201119091.html (http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Gun-Rights-Groups-Sue-Over-Conceal-Gun-Law-201119091.html)
Looks pretty official :)
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Awesome, now my wife can get one if this gets done!