In Alabama
A vote for removing the prohibition on short barreled rifles and shotguns is coming up this week:
Rep. Jeremy Oden’s HB 2 on short-barreled rifles and shotguns has passed the House and a Senate committee and now lacks a final vote by the full Senate.
The bill stirred controversy among people, including some police officers, who fear an influx of sawed-off shotguns if the bill passes. Oden said if anything, the bill would make sawed-off shotguns even more illegal.
The guns the bill would legalize in Alabama are manufactured with short barrels, and legal only if the owners cleared federal application to own them and paid $200 for a federal gun permit. Law enforcement officers would be exempt from the requirements.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Again the elephant in the room for the anti-freedom crowd:
“The bill stirred controversy among people, including some police officers, who fear an influx of sawed-off shotguns if the bill passes.”
The elephant, nobody wants to talk about all the states that have no problem with signing off on an NFA form for SBS and SBRs. Nor can anybody tell me why we should be particularly concerned with such guns in the first place….
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Gotta love the panty wetters. “Eeek, it’s short, ohnos! To buy it you have to turn in everything short of a dna sample! They’ll jump off the table and kill everyone!! Eek!”
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
“….and paid $200 for a federal gun permit.”
What is this federal gun permit they speak of? Is that how much it costs to become a law enforcement agency? If I could do that, I’d be able to stop paying that $200 TAX every time I wanted something that is listed in the NFA law!
F’in journalists. My 5 year old could do a better job reporting the facts (and he already knows the difference between Semi Auto and Full auto and can name every part in a 1911.
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:07 pm
WOOHOO! Daddy needs a new diplomat!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:27 am
It is obvious, reading between the lines, that the LEOs want themselves some SBRs, and this makes it legal for them to get them without all that annoying licensing.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:37 am
I don’t understand why more legislators when writing pro-gun legislation don’t just go ahead and write something along the lines of “since the people of our fine state are equally as law-abiding and responsible as the citizens of…” and then list the other states it is already legal in.
Put the onus on those against the bill to publically explain why they think Alabamans (for example) can’t be trusted with the same freedoms dozens of other state’s citizens enjoy with little to no documented problems.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Even more appropriate would be the comparison of the citizens of the state with the LE citizens of the state and show where special exemptions are justified for LE, but no other.