The bench of the Nebraska Supreme Court at the Capitol in Lincoln. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — A lawsuit can go forward challenging a Lincoln city ordinance banning the carrying of weapons – even by those with a state concealed carry permit – in city parks and other city property, the state’s highest court ruled on Friday.

The Nebraska Supreme Court, in a 22-page opinion on Friday, ruled that even though the law had not yet been enforced, four individual gun owners named in a lawsuit could challenge the law because there was a “credible threat” that they could be harmed by the ordinance in the future.

The ruling, written by Chief Justice Jeffrey Funke, agreed partly with a district judge’s prior ruling that the Nebraska Firearm Owners Association, as an organization,

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