HB28, sponsored by England, removes a new section of Alabama law that exempts pistol permit owners from being allowed to carry firearms on school property. A hearing is scheduled on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, and England calls the timing of the hearing occurring about one week after the Nashville shooting “a coincidence” but adds that “the likelihood that you introduce legislation that coincides with another school shooting, just kinds of points out that it happens too often here in America.”

HB12, also sponsored by England, makes it a misdemeanor if, during a traffic stop, a person in possession of a firearm fails to inform a law enforcement officer that he or she has a concealed gun. Said England, “it’s about restoring balance to law enforcement and having them try to maintain public safety.”

HB64, sponsored by Rep. Ron Bolton, R-Northport, makes it a Class C felony for an undocumented immigrant who is residing in the U.S. illegally, to be in possession of a firearm. Bolton, a former police captain, said the legislation would mirror federal law, but would allow prosecutors to pursue charges via state courts. “If we had it under state law, we’d handle it that way and not through federal court that makes it more cumbersome,” Bolton said. The legislation has support gun rights groups like Bama Carry.

HB123, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Drummond, D-Mobile, assesses criminal penalties against parents or guardians who do not secure their weapons that are discovered in possession of their child on school property. The legislation, if adopted, makes it a Class C felony against a parent or guardian if their child takes their firearm to school if that weapon is not reasonably secured at home.

HB181, sponsored by Butler, establishes the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, and prohibits a financial institution from disclosing a customer’s payment card records related to firearm transactions – with certain exceptions – and from engaging in discriminatory conduct toward a merchant or customer engaged in the transactions. Butler said the legislation is a “simple matter of privacy,” and that a gun owner should not have to worry about their financial records “being demanded by the government in retaliation.”

SB126, sponsored by Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Birmingham, establishes the Gun Violence Protective Order Act. It would require gun owners who have been issued a court-imposed gun violence protective order to relinquish their firearms for at least one year. The legislation is surfacing at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a request from the Justice Department to make it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to own firearms.

HB191, sponsored by Rep. Allen Treadaway, R-Birmingham, would impose harsh sentences on someone who possesses or uses a firearm during a crime that benefits a gang. Treadaway is a former assistant police chief in Birmingham, and his bill would impose a prison term of not less than 5 years if a gang member is found in possession of a gun. If the firearm is a short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun, the prison term would be at least 10 years. If it’s a machine gun, or is equipped with a silencer, the prison term is at least 30 years.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/after-nashville-tragedy-will-any-gun-bills-be-a-priority-for-alabama-lawmakers.html

When was the last time a CCW permit holder shot up a school?

Quite a bit of circumventing due process in there.
Does carrying on school property include driving through a school zone?

Not to mention making things double illegal while the very same pols are already pushing bail reform and marginalizing actual violent crime.

Can we please just get back to punishing actual criminals instead of simply creating more?

It was never a requirement to inform in the past and we seemed to have managed well without it.

Somehow during the quest to get Constitutional Carry they added in if asked if you have a firearm, and you are armed, you must answer truthfully or if it you don't then later a firearm is discovered you can be charged.

Now it seems this proposed law is you must inform on contact.

Proving yet again the gun grabbers will constantly attack.

It's AL I assume everyone is carrying.