Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB69 Compare Versions

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3	3	HB69
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5	5	By Representative Givan (N & P)
6	6	RFD: Judiciary
7	7	First Read: 04-Feb-25
8	8	PFD: 04-Dec-24
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14	14	6 FFBSC55-1 10/04/2024 CMH (L)CMH 2024-2684
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17	17	SYNOPSIS:
18	18	Under existing federal law, certain persons may
19	19	not possess a firearm under certain conditions,
20	20	including if the person has been convicted of a felony,
21	21	the person is a fugitive from justice, the person is an
22	22	unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance,
23	23	the person has been adjudicated as having a mental
24	24	illness, the person is an alien and is illegally
25	25	present in the United States, the person has been
26	26	discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable
27	27	conditions, or the person is subject to a domestic
28	28	violence restraining order or convicted of domestic
29	29	violence.
30	30	This bill would provide state criminal
31	31	penalties, in a Class 1 municipality for the possession
32	32	of a firearm by those persons who may not possess a
33	33	firearm under federal law.
34	34	Under existing federal law, it is unlawful to
35	35	knowingly possess a stolen firearm or stolen
36	36	ammunition.
37	37	This bill would provide state criminal penalties
38	38	in a Class 1 municipality for the possession of a
39	39	stolen firearm or ammunition.
40	40	This bill would provide criminal penalties in a
41	41	Class 1 municipality for possession of certain
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71	71	Class 1 municipality for possession of certain
72	72	prohibited firearms, accessories, and attachments,
73	73	including a short-barrel shotgun, short-barrel rifle,
74	74	firearm silencer, or machinegun, or any part or device
75	75	that can make an otherwise semi-automatic firearm
76	76	operate like a machinegun.
77	77	A BILL
78	78	TO BE ENTITLED
79	79	AN ACT
80	80	Relating to Class 1 municipalities; to provide
81	81	prohibitions on the unlawful possession of a firearm; to
82	82	provide prohibitions on the unlawful transfer of a firearm to
83	83	a person prohibited from possessing a firearm; to provide
84	84	prohibitions on the possession of a stolen firearm or
85	85	ammunition; to provide prohibitions on the possession of
86	86	certain prohibited firearms under certain conditions; and to
87	87	provide criminal penalties for a violation.
88	88	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
89	89	Section 1. This act shall only apply in Class 1
90	90	municipalities.
91	91	Section 2. (a) A person may not purchase, use, own, or
92	92	possess a firearm if the person is otherwise prohibited from
93	93	shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving a firearm in
94	94	interstate commerce pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), relating
95	95	to the unlawful possession of a firearm.
96	96	(b) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
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126	126	(b) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
127	127	Section 3. (a) A person may not knowingly sell, give,
128	128	or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any
129	129	person who is otherwise prohibited from shipping,
130	130	transporting, possessing, or receiving a firearm in interstate
131	131	commerce pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), relating to the
132	132	unlawful possession of a firearm.
133	133	(b) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
134	134	Section 4. (a) A person may not receive, possess,
135	135	conceal, store, barter, sell, or dispose of any stolen firearm
136	136	or stolen ammunition, knowing or having reasonable cause to
137	137	believe that the firearm or ammunition was stolen.
138	138	(b) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
139	139	Section 5. (a) A person may not possess any of the
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141	141	(1) A short-barreled shotgun, as the term is defined
142	142	under 18 U.S.C. § 921.
143	143	(2) A short-barreled rifle, as the term is defined
144	144	under 18 U.S.C. § 921.
145	145	(3) A machinegun, as the term is defined under 18
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147	147	(4) A firearm silencer or firearm muffler, as those
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149	149	(5) Any device, part, component, or combination of
150	150	parts specifically designed or intended to allow an otherwise
151	151	semi-automatic firearm to automatically shoot more than one
152	152	shot with a single function of the trigger of the firearm to
153	153	which the trigger is affixed so that the trigger rests and
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185	185	of the trigger by the shooter.
186	186	(b) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
187	187	(c) A person has a continuing duty to inspect a firearm
188	188	possessed, purchased, transferred, used, or sold by the
189	189	person, including any device, part, component, or combination
190	190	of parts attached to the firearm, to ensure the firearm, or
191	191	device, part, component, or combination thereof, is not
192	192	prohibited under subsection (a). A person who possesses,
193	193	obtains, receives, sells, purchases, or uses a firearm or
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197	197	(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to
198	198	prohibit a person from manufacturing, importing, selling,
199	199	offering for sale, possessing, receiving, transferring, or
200	200	transporting any item for which the person is in compliance
201	201	with the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. § 5801 et seq., or
202	202	other applicable federal law.
203	203	Section 6. This act shall become effective on October
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