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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.
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    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.
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    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.§
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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.
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    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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    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.
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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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    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
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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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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."