Nebraska

Official Governor's office press release confirms LB 77, Nebraska's constitutional-carry law signed April 25, 2023 (effective Sept 2, 2023), lets anyone 21+ who is not a prohibited person carry concealed without a permit; open carry has historically been unrestricted in Nebraska for lawful possessors and was not itself the regulated activity that LB77 changed.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1202.01(3) prohibits carrying a concealed handgun into or onto any place of worship (broadly defined to include classrooms, fellowship halls, etc. on the campus). The only exception (§28-1202.01(4)(b)) is for security personnel the place of worship has specifically authorized, with written notice to the congregation — an ordinary permit holder who is not part of that authorized security team may not carry there even with the pastor's informal okay.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2441 does not ban carry by location in bars/restaurants; a permitholder may not carry while consuming alcohol or with any previously-consumed alcohol still in their system, and a property owner/entity in control of the premises may prohibit by posting or verbal request.

Nebraska's concealed handgun permit (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2401 et seq., administered by Nebraska State Patrol) authorizes statewide carry; no boat/vessel/waterway restriction was found for Nebraska carry law in this research.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1202.01(3) bans a concealed handgun in 'a courtroom or building which contains a courtroom' — meaning if any courtroom is in the building, the WHOLE building is off-limits, not just the courtroom itself, with no permit exception mentioned. Other government buildings are restricted only during an actual meeting of a governing body (e.g., a county board meeting), not as a blanket rule — a DMV counter on an ordinary day is not covered.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2441 (Concealed Handgun Permit Act) expressly bars permitholders from carrying in the buildings, grounds, vehicles, or sponsored activities/athletic events of any public or private postsecondary institution — college, university, community college, or career school.

Nebraska (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2441) lets a property owner exclude carriers by conspicuous signage; absent that, carry is presumptively lawful.

No NE statute requires advance owner consent; general trespass law (Neb. Rev. Stat. 28-520) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default).

No Nebraska source I found lists airports among restricted locations (usacarry.com's list: police stations, courtrooms, schools, houses of worship, and liquor-licensed establishments). No airport-specific statute or second source was found to confirm this either way.

Nebraska enacted permitless carry via LB77, effective September 2, 2023, letting any non-minor, non-prohibited person carry a concealed handgun anywhere in Nebraska with or without a permit — this covers vehicle carry.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1202.01(3) bars carrying a concealed handgun into 'a hospital, emergency room, or trauma center.' No public/private carve-out found in the statutory text.

Nebraska's concealed-carry prohibited-place statute (Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1202.01(3)) is narrow — financial institutions, schools, and places barred by state/federal law — with no rest-area mention. I could not independently load the full primary statute text (only a secondary summary), so treat with modest caution despite the consistent pattern.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1202.04(2) (2023 LB77): "whenever a person who is carrying a concealed handgun is contacted by a peace officer or by emergency services personnel, the person shall immediately inform" them of that fact; the officer may then secure the handgun for the duration of the contact and must return it once the person is determined not to be a threat. Proactive duty triggered by contact, not by a question.

Nebraska State Patrol FAQ: "The permit is available only to residents of this state." The only accommodation is a residency-requirement waiver for a person newly relocating to Nebraska who already holds a reciprocal state's permit — not a true non-resident pathway.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1204.04(1) bans firearms in schools/on school grounds/at school activities. A concealed handgun permit holder's exception is narrowly limited to driving into a school parking area with the handgun locked in the glove box, trunk, or similar compartment once they exit the vehicle — not general campus carry. Nebraska is permitless-carry, which doesn't extend this narrow vehicle exception.

I believe Nebraska's concealed handgun permit statute (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2441) follows the common 'refusal to leave' pattern (a permit holder who fails to leave posted or prohibited premises when requested commits a misdemeanor) but I could not fetch or otherwise confirm this from a live source in this session.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1703: firearm/weapon regulation is "a matter of statewide concern"; counties, cities, and villages (including Omaha and Lincoln) may not regulate ownership, possession, storage, or transfer except as state law expressly authorizes.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1202.01(3) expressly bars carrying a concealed handgun (with or without a permit — Nebraska is a permitless-carry state) into or onto 'a polling place during a bona fide election.' No exception found for permit holders in this location (unlike the financial-institution/place-of-worship security exceptions elsewhere in the statute).

No state-level magazine capacity restriction found.

No extreme risk protection order or red flag statute found in Nebraska.

Nebraska Rev. Stat. 28-1203 explicitly exempts persons qualified under federal law relating to the short rifle, short shotgun, or machine gun — anyone who completed the federal NFA process. Suppressors are not separately addressed by Nebraska statute, so governed purely by federal law and permitted once registered. No Nebraska-specific ban on pre-1986 transferable machine guns; only a CLEO notification (not approval) accompanies the federal filing.

Castle Doctrine state: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1409(4)(a) — duty to retreat with complete safety before deadly force, except no duty to retreat from the actor's dwelling or place of work (unless also the assailant's workplace). No duty at home/workplace; duty in public.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 69-2403, 69-2404, 69-2431 require a buyer in a private handgun sale to hold a 'handgun certificate' or a concealed handgun permit (both involve a background check) before the transfer. This applies to handguns only -- private sales of rifles and shotguns require no state background check. Exceptions also cover antiques, law enforcement, immediate family, and temporary transfers at a shooting range/within line of sight.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1201, which defines every term used across Nebraska's weapons-possession statutes (§§28-1201 to 28-1212.04), never defines or mentions 'silencer' or 'suppressor' — no Nebraska statute reaches a federally-registered can.

§28-1203 makes possessing a machine gun a Class IV felony but expressly exempts 'persons qualified under the provisions of federal law relating to the... machine gun' — a lawfully-registered NFA machine gun is exempt.

Same §28-1203 covers 'short rifle' with the identical exemption for persons qualified under federal law.

Same §28-1203 covers 'short shotgun' with the identical exemption for persons qualified under federal law.

Nebraska has no standalone destructive-device ban: §28-1205 only elevates DD possession to an added felony when carried 'during the commission of' another felony or dangerous misdemeanor, and §28-1213 is definitions only — ordinary possession of a federally-registered DD isn't itself a Nebraska crime, and AOWs aren't separately addressed.