Omaha's ban on bump stocks and ghost guns survives court challenge

Source: Omaha World Herald

Dan Crisler 27 mins ago

A Douglas County District Court judge ruled the City of Omaha did not violate a 2023 Nebraska law when the City Council passed an ordinance to ban bump stocks and untraceable guns.

Judge LeAnne Srb’s January ruling brought an end to a two-year legal fight between the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association and the City of Omaha, along with former Mayor Jean Stothert.

The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association, along with five Nebraska gun owners, filed the lawsuit against the city in December 2023 after the council and Stothert enacted firearms regulations around the time Legislative Bill 77, a state law that legalized people to carry concealed weapons without a permit and largely superseded local gun laws, passed earlier that year.

Srb ruled the city’s prohibition on bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic firearms to act as automatic weapons, passed via ordinance, was legally sound since LB 77 did not address bump stocks. The firearms association and the five gun owners argued in the lawsuit that the ordinance violated state law because, Srb noted in her ruling, bump stocks “fall within the meaning of firearms because they are essential components to the operation of a firearm.”


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