LINCOLN- Jim Pillen, the Republican nominee for Nebraska governor, said he opposes new restrictions on gun owners as an answer to mass shootings like those in Oklahoma, Texas, New York and Nebraska.

Pillen said he would fight the adoption of a so-called “red-flag” law, under which a judge can order the temporary confiscation of weapons from someone suffering a mental-health crisis. He also opposes raising the minimum age of gun ownership — 18 years old — in a country that sends 18-year-olds to war.

If Nebraska changed the law to restrict gun purchases to people 21 and older, Pillen said it would never be enough. The next shooting would bring calls to increase the age threshold to 24, he said.

“My point is, age doesn’t matter,” he said.

Pillen told reporters he needed more information to answer whether the state should consider expanding background checks to include sales at gun shows and other private sales, including sales arranged online.

State Sen. Carol Blood, the Democrat running against Pillen, said Pillen shouldn’t need to study what schools need. She said he should ask Ricketts what his 2018 study found schools needed.

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