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Nebraska Prohibit Federal Firearms Restrictions Initiative (2014)

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The Nebraska Prohibit Federal Firearms Restrictions Initiative was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in Nebraska as an initiated state statute. The measure would have prohibited federal, state or local government officials from enforcing any federal laws, rules or regulations concerning the ownership or registration of firearms enacted on or after July 1, 2013.[1]

Background

In 2013, Sen. Charlie Janssen (15) introduced Legislative Bill 451, which would have made any federal law, rule, regulation, or order effective on or after January 1, 2013, unenforceable in the state if it banned or restricted ownership of semi-automatic firearms or magazines, beyond what Nebraska already restricted at the time, or required firearms, magazines or other firearm accessories to be registered beyond then current Nebraska law.[2] That measure was indefinitely postponed on April 17, 2014. Firearm advocates based their initiated measure off of Sen. Jassen's bill.[3][4]

Support

  • Bobby L. Howard, petition sponsor[1]
  • Cody Wragge, petition sponsor
  • Justin Grusing, petition sponsor
  • John Engelhard, petition sponsor
  • Nebraska Shooters[4]
  • Big Shots Indoor Range and Gun Shop
  • My Rights Nebraska[5]

My Rights Nebraska also supported a Voter ID initiative.[6]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Nebraska

In order to qualify the proposed initiated statute, supporters were required to collect valid signatures totaling a minimum of seven percent of registered voters by July 4, 2014. The exact number was based on the number of registered voters on that day. In addition, signatures needed to be collected from five percent of the registered voters in 38 of the 93 Nebraska counties.[7]

Secretary of State John Gale (R) said that only one initiative for 2014 - the Minimum Wage Increase Initiative - submitted signatures.[8]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nebraska Secretary of State, "Initiative Petitions: Firearm Petition," accessed May 28, 2014
  2. ↑ Nebraska Legislature, "LB451," accessed June 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Open States, "103rd Nebraska Legislature: Nebraska Unicameral Bill 451," accessed May 28, 2014
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 KLKN-TV, "Nebraska firearm advocates push for Second Amendment protection," October 18, 2013
  5. ↑ My Rights Nebraska, "Homepage," accessed July 3, 2014
  6. ↑ My Rights Nebraska, "Propositions," accessed May 28, 2014
  7. ↑ Nebraska Secretary of State, "HOW TO USE THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PROCESS IN NEBRASKA," June 2013
  8. ↑ 1011, "Signatures For Wage Initiative Turned in to Secretary of State's Office," July 3, 2014
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