According to the Omaha World Herald, Omaha Police Chief, Alex Hayes, submitted a memo to the city council on Friday 30th, September proposing changes "designed to make city regulations consistent with state and federal gun registration laws — while adding a section that encourages voluntary weapon registration."
Of course, the City of Omaha, Nebraska was incredibly short-sighted to have restricted the legal immigrants from registering firearms in the first place. The state of Nebraska allows legal immigrants to legally own guns. However, a Nebraskan city with a sizable legal immigrant population disallowed it.
The Omaha police chief said that the changes were in the pipeline for some time now. He even suggested that a lawsuit filed against city was negligible in influencing his or the city's decision. Quoting the Omaha World Herald again,"The lawsuit was filed by the Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation, the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association and Armando Pliego Gonzalez." Indeed, Armando Pliego Gonzalez is reported as saying that "It's a good thing. We have been trying to do something" by KETV NewsWatch 7.
I really hope that the Omaha city council changes the ordinance and allows legal immigrants to register firearms. Surely, it's the right thing to do.
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