Several pro-gun bills are making their way through the Alabama legislature and they need your help to pass.
House Bill 432 passed out of the House and currently sits in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sponsored by State Representative Jack Page (D-29), HB432 would make all records pertaining to pistol permits confidential, only to be used for law enforcement purposes. Any public disclosure of this information would be a Class A misdemeanor.
House Bill 225, introduced by State Representative Marc Keahey (D-65), would protect our Second Amendment rights by prohibiting any government agency from confiscating firearms or regulating the lawful sale, possession, transfer, transport and carry of firearms during a state of emergency, such as occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. HB 225 currently awaits a committee assignment in the Senate.
House Bill 328 was passed by the House Agriculture and Forestry Committee and now moves to the House floor for consideration. HB 328, “no-net-loss” legislation, will ensure hunters in the state of Alabama that their vast hunting acreage will never decrease. This bill requires that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources maintain the level of available public hunting land that currently exists. Simply stated, it requires that additional lands be opened to hunting if land that is currently open to hunting is closed.
House Bill 362 and Senate Bill 407, sponsored by State Representative Craig Ford (D-28) and State Senator Roger Bedford (D-6), respectively, are currently pending in the House Commerce Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. These cross-filed bills would protect your right to lawfully transport and store firearms in a privately-owned and locked motor vehicle while parked in publicly accessible parking lots controlled by your employer or a business you frequent. HB 362 and SB 407 are scheduled to be heard Wednesday, March 11. Our thanks go out to Representative Ford and Senator Bedford for their tireless efforts to preserve the Second Amendment in the state of Alabama.
In January, 2009 the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld an Oklahoma statute that protects the rights of employees to store firearms in locked vehicles in publicly accessible parking lots. The proposed Alabama bill is very similar to the Oklahoma law and should withstand any similar challenges that might be launched. Click here for more information regarding this court case.
Please contact your State Legislators and respectfully urge them to support these bills. Contact information can be found here. Contact information for the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Commerce Committee are below.
Senate Judiciary Committee
State Senator Myron Penn (D-28)
(334) 242-7868
[email protected]
State Senator Roger Bedford (D-6)
(334) 242-7862
[email protected]
State Senator Kim Benefield (D-13)
(334) 242-7874
[email protected]
State Senator Ben Brooks (R-35)
(334) 242-7882
[email protected]
State Senator Vivian Davis Figures (D-33)
(334) 242-7871
[email protected]
State Senator Ted Little (D-27)
(334) 242-7865
[email protected]
State Senator Del Marsh (R-12)
(334) 242-7877
State Senator Tripp Pittman (R-32)
(334) 242-7897
[email protected]
State Senator Henry Sanders (D-23)
(334) 242-7860
State Senator Bobby Singleton (D-24)
(334) 242-7935
[email protected]
State Senator Roger Smitherman (D-18)
(334) 242-7870
[email protected]
State Senator Zeb Little (D-4)
(334) 242-7855
[email protected]
State Senator Arthur Orr (R-3)
(334) 242-7800
House Commerce Committee
State Representative Frank McDaniel (D-26)
(334) 242-7697
[email protected]
State Representative Alan Harper (D-61)
(334) 242-7732
[email protected]
State Representative Gerald Allen (R-62)
(334) 242-7758
State Representative Warren Beck (R-87)
(334) 242-7774
State Representative Duwayne Bridges (R-38)
(334) 242-7600
State Representative Bill Dukes (D-8)
(334) 242-7689
State Representative James Fields (D-12)
(334) 242-7600
State Representative David Grimes (R-73)
(334) 242-7707
[email protected]
State Representative Earl Hilliard (D-60)
(334) 242-7684
State Representative Artis McCampbell (D-71)
(334) 242-7747
State Representative Rod Scott (D-55)
(334) 242-7752
[email protected]
State Representative Lesley Vance (D-80)
(334) 242-7687
State Representative Pebblin Warren (D-82)
(334) 242-7734
[email protected]
State Representative Jack Williams (R-47)
(334) 242-7600
[email protected]
State Representative Greg Wren (R-75)
(334) 242-7764
[email protected]
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