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- As millions of firearms owners looked to the 20k+ thousands of Virginians who showed up, peacefully assembled, and petitioned their government to protest against further infringement of their Second Amendment Rights, we all have sat back and looked at how one bad bill is pushed forward is followed by another. A Nebraska Senator – Senator John S. McCollister (R?) – has slyly been working to do the same in Nebraska.
Sen. McCollister has introduced Legislative Bill 816 (LB816), “a bill for an act relating to public health and welfare … to provide for dissemination of information regarding firearm safety and suicide prevention and require suicide prevention training; to require a certificate and provide for other restrictions on transfers of certain firearms as prescribed ….”
Does that sound like Virginia yet? If not, read on.
You might be surprised to learn that Sen. McCollister would like to make it more expensive and difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain semiautomatic shotguns and rifles with the following features (among others): barrel shrouds, belt-fed firearms, detachable magazines, pistol grips, forward grips, collapsible stocks and semiautomatic rifles and shotguns with an overall length of less than 30”. Sen. McCollister is also apparently attempting to reduce the number of suicides committed with grenade and rocket launchers.
If the intellectual dishonesty of Sen. McCollister’s proposed legislation hasn’t raised red flags for you yet, his Virginia/Bloomberg-like approach to restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens should.
- Nebraska Firearms Owners Association