And NE probably made it almost impossible to obtain a permit, yet they want him to shoulder all the blame when he runs afoul the law.
NE is "shall issue", but it's recent. His misdemeanor conviction was from before they had a permit system at all.
Of course almost every gun law, save those prohibiting felons from being armed, in the state, especially those of the City of Omaha, are blatantly in violation of the State Constitution, whose very paragraph of it's very first article says:
All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to keep and bear arms for security or defense of self, family, home, and others, and for lawful common defense, hunting, recreational use, and all other lawful purposes, and such rights shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof. To secure these rights, and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The part in italics was added by a vote of the people in the late 1980s. The legislature wouldn't even put the measure on the ballot, so The People did it themselves via the initiative and referendum process.
But no gun law has yet been overturned on the basis of that provision. I guess the courts thought The People didn't really mean it?