Lincoln-area gun owners tell Nebraska Supreme Court they have standing to sue city
Source: Nebraska Examiner
City argues, citing lower court ruling, they have not been cited, arrested or prosecuted
By: Aaron Sanderford - April 3, 2025 6:05 pm
LINCOLN — The lawyer for four Lincoln-area gun owners told the Nebraska Supreme Court during oral arguments Thursday that his clients shouldn’t need to break a Lincoln city ordinance to gain the legal standing to sue and stop a weapons ban on city property.
Jacob Huebert, a Texas-based lawyer for the Liberty Justice Center who represents the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association, argued that all four of his clients have altered their practice of arming themselves when visiting public parks and public spaces because of the ordinance.
Thursday’s case against Lincoln echoes the argument in a separate lawsuit against the City of Omaha over a similar ban. Both lawsuits argue Lincoln and Omaha cannot ban guns in parks, trails and other public spaces because the Legislature outlawed most local gun restrictions with Legislative Bill 77 in 2023.
That law allowed Nebraskans to carry concealed handguns without a permit or state-mandated training. It also curbed some of the power of Nebraska’s larger cities to more stringently regulate guns than Nebraska law does in the rest of the state.
Local restrictions on handguns are at issue in a lawsuit heard in the Nebraska Supreme Court. (Courtesy of Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)
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