Nebraska Constitutional Carry Bill Passes Critical Vote

AmmoLand ^ | March 8, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

On Friday, March 3, 2023, the Nebraska Constitutional Carry bill LB77 passed a critical vote in the Nebraska legislature.  Nebraska is the only unicameral legislature in the 50 states of the United States. When Nebraska switched from a traditional bi-cameral legislature to a unicameral one, in 1934, at the height of the Progressive revolution, safeguards were put in place to prevent a simple majority from exerting excessive power.

Bills proposed in the legislature have to pass three votes which require debate and maybe filibustered. The three votes are the General File (done, 36 to 12), the Select File (pending), and the Final vote (after the Select File). In these debates, if the bill is filibustered, a vote of cloture is required. Thirty-three votes out of a possible 49 are required for cloture. In Nebraska, a bill has to have 33 yes votes in each of the three debate votes, to be sent to the governor for signature.

The time between the votes allows for considerable horsetrading, logrolling, and arm twisting.

While the Nebraska legislature is nominally non-partisan, in practice, there are Republicans and Democrats. Using the excellent voting resource of Ballotpedia, Nebraska has 32 Republican senators and 17 Democratic Senators.  As 33 votes are needed to pass a bill, if all 17 Democrats vote against the bill, or do not vote, they can stop any bill from passing. If one Republican votes against Constitutional Carry, then two Democrats are needed to vote for it to pass the bill.

Four Democrats voted to pass Constitutional Carry. Two of them are the only two black legislators in the Nebraska senate. Both are from Omaha. Senator Terrell McKinney of District 11 has consistently supported Constitutional Carry in 2022. Senator Justin Wayne of District 13

[marktwain]

This was the first of the three cloture votes this bill must transition to be enacted into law.

Lots of deal-making.

[CFW]

The people are speaking up and more representatives are listening. They have to now with elections coming up next year. Let’s see now if they will fold to the gun-control groups’ lies or will they stand up for their constituents.

[joma89]

Repealing the NFA of 1934 is next.

[This_Dude]

And then the 1986 law for new machine gun manufacture. I can’t imagine the rich guys who own a pre ‘86 machine gun would be too happy about that. The entire reason full autos are as expensive as they are is because no more can be made and there are only so many pre 86 receivers. The dudes who own them bought an investment. If the Hughes act gets repealed and we can start stamping receivers again, their investments will nosedive. Not that I care.

I just wanna go to the store and buy an MG42 (my dream gun) and unless and until I can do that, my rights are infringed.

[mad_as_he$$]

MG42? Hookers and blow cost less to feed and care for! I do understand your desire to own one.