Nebraska
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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.
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Item type:Item, Omaha, Neb., Rev. Ordinances ch. 28, § 5-6 (1872)(1872)If any person shall carry any concealed weapon or weapons, or have concealed upon or about his or her person any revolver, pistol, slung shot, bowie knife, or other deadly weapon or instrument, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.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, 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, Ordinance No. 51: An Ordinance to Establish a Criminal Code, THE GLOBE JOURNAL, Jun. 5, 1880, at 2, § 6, 11(1880)§ 11: Whoever shall carry a weapon, or weapons, concealed on or about his person, such as a pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in jail not more than thirty daysItem 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, 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.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, Gilbert B. Colfield, Laws, Ordinances and Rules of Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska 36 (1872)(1873)Ordinance No. 7, An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Fire Arms and Concealed Weapons, § 1: That it shall be, and it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to carry, openly or concealed, any musket, rifle, shot gun, pistol, sabre, sword, bowie knife, dirk, sword cane, billy slung shot, brass or other metallic knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapons, within the corporate limits of Nebraska CityItem type:Item, 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.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 licensesItem 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, 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 pistolItem 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 powderItem 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 namedItem 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."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 revokedItem 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.