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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,
    Omaha, Neb., Rev. Ordinances ch. 42 § 10 (1890)
    (1890)
    Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slungshot, brass knuckles or knuckles of lead, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a Bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by fine up to $100.
  • Item type:Item,
    Lincoln, Neb., Rev. Ordinances pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 26, § 1-8 (1895)
    (1895)
    It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or other person having the care and custody of any minor, to purchase for or give to any such minor or knowingly to permit any such minor to have any toy pistol, toy gun, or other toy arm or arms, or sling shot, out of which any leaden or other dangerous missiles may be discharged.§
  • 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[.]
  • Item type:Item,
    Lincoln, Neb., Rev. Ordinances pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 26, § 17-30 (1895)
    (1895)
    Prohibited the ability to keep, sell, or give away gun powder or gun cotton without the signed permission of the Fire Chiefs and the City Clerk. Penalty of twenty-five dollars.
  • Item type:Item,
    Lincoln, Neb., Rev. Ordinances pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 16, §§ 1-6 (1895)
    (1895)
    It shall be unlawful for any person within said city to carry about the person any concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, bowie knife, billy, sling-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons of any kind, excepting only officers of the law in the discharge of their duties. Also granted the mayor the power to grant licenses
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • 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,
    1895 Neb. Laws 209-10
    (1895)
    Art. 16, § 1: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, Bowie-knife, billy, sling-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons.
  • Item type:Item,
    Fairfield, Neb., Comp. Ordinances no. 20 (1899)
    (1899)
    An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Fixing a Penalty for the violations of the same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Fairfield, Nebraska: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, Bowie knife, billy, slingshot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Punishable by forfeiture and "shall be so adjudged."