Posted on 02/22/2022 4:13:15 AM PST by marktwain
On February 16, 2022, the Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee has passed the HB 272 version of Constitutional Carry. It will now be voted on by the House.
The Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday gave a favorable report for a bill that would repeal the state’s law requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
House Bill 272, sponsored by state Rep. Shane Stringer, R-Citronelle, would do away with the legal requirement for a person to have a concealed carry permit in Alabama, which is referred to as permitless carry or constitutional carry.
It was previously reported a Senate version of the bill, SB 1, had passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 6 – 4 vote, on February 2. SB1 has not been voted on by the full Senate as of this writing.
Alabama Republicans outnumber Democrats in the Senate with a supermajority of 8 Democrats to 27 Republicans.
Alabama Republicans outnumber Democrats in the House by a wide margin. There are 28 Democrats and 75 Republicans, with 2 vacancies.
The two bills, SB 1 and HB 272 have similar ends but are not identical. One or the other will have to be chosen by the legislature if a Constitutional Carry bill is to pass the legislature and be sent to Alabama Governor Kay Ivy.
Governor Ivey is facing primary challenges this year. The primary in Alabama is to be held on May 24, 2022. If Governor Ivey is to benefit from signing a Constitutional Carry bill into law, the bill will need to be passed well before May 24th.
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I give Constitutional Carry about a 50% chance of becoming law in Alabama this year.
About 13 of adults?
There’s only about seventy or eighty adults in Alabama. The rest are football fans and are thereby disqualified. :P
Since they issue the permits and get to keep the money therefrom, it is a sizable resource for the Sheriff to have at his disposal, without accountability.
They will never agree to Constitutional Carry.
It will never get to the Governor's desk.
I wish they would hurry up. My permit expires next month. If I renew online I have to pay $20. Since I’m retired military if I go to the permit office it would be free. I have to admit, if permits are required (which of course they shouldn’t be) you really can’t get much better than Alabama in ease of getting one.
About 1/3 of adults. Don’t know what happened to the /.
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