{"id":3874,"date":"2011-10-06T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/10\/06\/gonzalez-v-omaha-suit-prods-omaha-to\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:28","slug":"gonzalez-v-omaha-suit-prods-omaha-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalez v. Omaha Suit Prods Omaha To Make Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13843,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/nebraska-firearm-owners-assoc-and-saf.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16872,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nebraskafirearms.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260331070929\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nebraskafirearms.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 02:31:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 02:31:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/nebraska-firearm-owners-assoc-and-saf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The City of Omaha, Nebraska was sued late last month<\/a> by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association on behalf of permanent legal alien Armando Pliego Gonzalez. As a result, the City of Omaha is proposing changes to their firearms regulations regarding registration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nebraskafirearms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Allen of NFOA<\/a> thinks the Omaha proposals fall far short of what is required under state and federal law. He released this statement regarding the proposals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Omaha, NE, October 5, 2011\u2013 Andreas Allen, President of the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA), welcomes the chance to address the issues that Omaha has with its firearms laws; however, the City&#8217;s proposal falls short of their stated goal of &#8220;making the Omaha Ordinances consistent with State and Federal laws&#8221;.  Other than addressing the current lawsuit on legal resident aliens, the only inconsistency to State and Federal laws the City has attempted to reconcile in this proposal is creating a registration exemption for the Nebraska Concealed Handgun Permit Act.  Consequently, in 2009 the Nebraska Legislature had already declared Omaha&#8217;s registration null and void for Nebraska Concealed Handgun Permit holders.<\/p>\n<p>If this was a serious attempt to reconcile City, State, and Federal law, then the City should have started with their definition of a &#8220;Concealable Firearm.&#8221;  Unlike Omaha&#8217;s definition of &#8220;a firearm having a barrel less than 18 inches in length,&#8221; the rest of the State and Nation define a &#8220;Concealable Firearm&#8221; to have a barrel less that 16 inches and be designed to be operated with one hand.  This simple definition difference in Omaha places many common 16-inch barrel rifles into the category of a &#8220;Concealable Firearm,&#8221; and even though the Omaha Police Department does not register these rifles, a resident in possession of one of these common target or sporting rifles could be found in violation of Omaha&#8217;s registration requirements.  There is also no mention of removing the obsolete requirement for a written permit from the Chief of Police to purchase a &#8220;Concealable Firearm,&#8221; even though the process for receiving such a permit has long been removed from the City&#8217;s ordinances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any well thought out attempt to correct Omaha&#8217;s firearms ordinances should start with removing these unenforced portions of the law.  The City&#8217;s proposal falls short of their stated goal and the only real effect it would have is creating a fifty percent increase in what many Omaha Police Officers and firearms owners call the &#8216;Omaha Gun Tax,'&#8221;said NFOA President Andy Allen. &#8220;Should the City decide they truly want to &#8216;make the Omaha Ordinances consistent with State and Federal laws&#8217;, then the NFOA is willing to assist the City in fixing the inconsistencies in Omaha&#8217;s firearms ordinances.&#8221;<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Omaha, Nebraska was sued late last month by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Nebraska Firearms&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4059,1271],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gonzalez-v-omaha","tag-nebraska-firearms-owners-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}