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Nebraska

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Nebraska. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, homesteading, railroad, and agricultural records, and oral histories tied to Nebraska people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    1869 Neb. Laws 53
    (1869)
    An Act To Incorporate Cities Of The First Class In The State Of Nebraska, § 47: Allowed the city council to license vendors of gunpowder.
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    1929 Neb. Laws 673-74
    (1929)
    Ch. 190, §§ 1-2: Prohibited selling or otherwise disposing of a machine gun. Punishable by fine of $1,000-$10,000. Also Prohibited transporting or possessing a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-10 years.
  • Item type:Item,
    1897 Neb. Laws 162
    (1897)
    Ch. 14, § 24, pt. 38: To . . . regulate and prevent the transportation of gun powder or other explosives or combustible articles, tar, pitch, rosin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, petroleum, or any other productions thereof and other materials of like nature[.]
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    1907 Neb. Laws 498-99
    (1907)
    Ch. 165, § 1: Any person who brakes [sic] and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place, by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, with intent to steal or injure the property of another, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
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    1901 Neb. Laws 154
    (1901)
    Ch. 17, § 33: To regulate or prohibit the transportation and keeping of gun powder, oils or other combustible and explosive articles.
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    1893 Neb. Consol. Stat. 1231
    (1893)
    Pt. 1, ch. 5, § 5604: Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol; Bowie-knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon. Violators not fined on first offense exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned more than thirty days. Second offense not exceeding one hundred dollars or three months imprisonment.
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    1901 Neb. Laws 372
    (1901)
    Art. II, ch. 36, § 4, pt. 8: No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, nor with a steel or hard pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol
  • Item type:Item,
    1901 Neb. Laws 141
    (1901)
    Ch. 16, § 129, pt. 55: to prevent use of fire arms, rockets, powder, fire works, or other dangerous and combustible material; carrying of concealed weapons; to arrest, punish, fine or set at work on streets or elsewhere vagrants and persons found without visible means of support, or legitimate business; to regulate and prevent the transportation of gun powder
  • Item type:Item,
    1893 Neb. Comp. Stat. 393
    (1893)
    Ch. 47, § 3: It shall also be unlawful for any person, at any time, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), or any other than the common shoulder gun; or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy upon any of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort within state of Nebraska, any wild goose, wood duck, teal, canvas-back, bluebill, or other wild duck, or to destroy or disturb the eggs of any of the birds above named
  • Item type:Item,
    1881 Neb. Comp. Stat. 666
    (1881)
    Pt. 3, ch. 5, § 25: Prohibited the carry of Bowie-knives, dirks, or any other dangerous weapon. First offense punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not less than thirty days. Second offense punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding three months or both.
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    1873 Neb. Gen. Stat. 724
    (1873)
    Ch. 58, § 25: Prohibited the conceal carry of a pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon. First offense punished with a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. Second offense fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or jailed not exceeding three months, or both.
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    1887 Neb. Laws 502-03
    (1887)
    Ch. 50, §§ 54-55: It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized volunteer militia of this state, and the troops of the United States to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill or to parade with arms in any city or town in this state without the license of the governor thereof which license may at any time be revoked