NRA-ILA
Your NRA has learned that a number of Alabama sheriffs are attempting to derail
House Bill 39 and
Senate Bill 47, NRA-supported bills to provide a lifetime option to Alabama’s concealed carry permit holders. We’ve heard that the Alabama Sheriffs Association (ASA) and individual sheriffs from across the state have been in Montgomery hammering your legislators to kill these important bills. The choice of which option is best for your self-defense needs should be YOURS, not theirs. Please click the “Take Action†button below or call 334-264-7827 to contact the Alabama Sheriffs Association (ASA) and also call your individual sheriff at their office number below provided by the ASA. (Please do not call their emergency or dispatch phone numbers.) Respectfully tell them that you, as a law-abiding gun owner, want the lifetime option and they need to stop undermining your right to self-defense!
SB 47 and HB 39 create a new statewide, uniform system to provide lifetime permits for qualified applicants at a cost of $200. For state residents over 65, the fee drops to $150.
Permit holders don’t need to be reminded that Alabama’s exemption to the NICS background check was stripped last summer after an investigation revealed serious irregularities in the permitting process of several sheriffs over a number of years. Instead of acknowledging how their actions undermined the self-defense rights of permit holders, however, the sheriffs are trying to kill the lifetime option bills.
The ASA has even gone so far as to sponsor
House Bill 308, a bill that creates a new “repository†of all concealed carry permits, along with the personal information of permit holders, to be administered by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. It doesn’t provide a lifetime permit and it doesn’t make the permit application process any easier. This bill was introduced for one purpose and one purpose only – kill the lifetime permit bills that are gaining support day-by-day in the legislature.
More:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200227/alabama-sheriffs-attempting-to-kill-lifetime-permit-option
