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			    RKBA-ALERT Digest 528
Topics covered in this issue include:
  1) ALERT: AL - How HB32 Benefits Gun Owners by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:51:33 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: AL - How HB32 Benefits Gun Owners
Message-ID: 
January 28, 1998
ALABAMA
                What You Should Know About HB 32
           And How it Benefits Gun Owners of Alabama
                                
Currently, Alabama has a two-day waiting period for the purchase
of handguns and is subject to the federal five-day Brady Act
waiting period.  House Bill 32 will abolish both waiting periods
and allow for immediate firearm sales to law-abiding citizens
after the completion of an instant background check on the
purchaser.
In addition, to prevent the problems associated with restrictive
local ordinances, HB 32 contains preemption language for all
firearms, ammunition, and lawful shooting activities (currently,
only handguns are protected under Alabama preemption law). 
Without preemption to insure uniform state laws, the result is a
complex patchwork of firearms restrictions that change from one
local jurisdiction to the next.  It is unreasonable to require
citizens, whether residents from a given state or persons
traveling through or visiting a state, to memorize a legion of
differing local laws.  Shooting ranges will also receive
protection from nuisance law-suits through HB 32
Gun owner privacy is protected by HB 32 because the Alabama
Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) will not be permitted
to retain records of potential buyers for more that twenty days. 
The ACJIC also may not create any list, electronic, magnetic, or
otherwise, containing any of the information of a potential buyer
or transferee, unless the potential buyer or transferee is
prohibited from receipt or possession of a firearm pursuant to
state or federal law.  The NRA is working with the sponsor of the
bill to lower the fee.  We were successful in reducing the fee
from $15 to $10, and will continue to get it even lower.
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This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at: http://WWW.NRA.Org
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