{"id":26912,"date":"2020-01-15T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26912"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:58:17","slug":"stolen-firearm-protections-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26912","title":{"rendered":"Stolen firearm protections expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors would have increased authority to pursue people for receiving stolen firearms under a bill advanced from general file Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20126\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20126\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20126\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senbrewer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brewer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brewer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20126\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Tom Brewer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tom Brewer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, a person must have actual knowledge or belief that a gun is stolen to be convicted of crimes related to receiving a stolen firearm. LB582, sponsored by Gordon Sen. Tom Brewer, would change the standard so that a person who should have known or had reasonable cause to believe that a firearm was stolen could be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The trade and trafficking of stolen firearms is a statewide issue that needs to be addressed, according to Brewer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis does not increase the penalty for having a stolen gun &#8230; it does not create a new crime,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat it does do is allow for the due process guaranteed by the Constitution for a jury or judge to decide if a stolen gun in the defendant\u2019s possession [should be] a Class IIA felony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A person found to be in possession of a firearm that is believed to be stolen would be guilty of a Class IIA felony, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Mike McDonnell supported the bill. Current law allows for people with a stolen gun to simply claim that they \u201cfound\u201d it, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had issues in the last 30 days in Omaha where we had three guns that were possessed by an individual who just said they found [them],\u201d McDonnell said. \u201cThose guns were later traced back to crimes committed years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senators advanced LB582 to select file on a 43-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors would have increased authority to pursue people for receiving stolen firearms under a bill advanced from general file Jan. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-26912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-tom-brewer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LB582Brewer1-15-20a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26913,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26912\/revisions\/26913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}