State lawmaker proposes statewide database for gun permit holders
Missouri started out in way similar to this back in 2004, and a few years later it was discovered that the state was selling the personal information of permittees to commercial advertisers. Now each Sheriff issues and manages that county’s CCW system for those people who still desire to have a CCW permit for interstate reciprocity. Alabama should continue as they are because a centralized system has been shown to be ripe for abuse.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – One state lawmaker wants to create a statewide database of people with concealed carry permits.
Representative Proncey Robertson says a statewide database of concealed carry gun permit holders available to law enforcement is needed in Alabama. He claims the county-by-county application process in sheriffs’ offices isn’t secure.
“When you go in there and give them your personal information, addresses, social security numbers, date of birth… all this sort of stuff to put on that, its setting there in a very non secure location,” Robertson, (R)-District 7 said.
Robertson says the new system will be monitored by state law enforcement. Each sheriff’s office will have a log in to access the database. The system will also be updated to show who is prohibited from carrying weapons.
Guns rights groups like BamaCarry are unloading on this bill.
“They need to back off of trying to regulate people who lawfully carry weapons,” Eddie Fulmer with BamaCarry said.
Fulmer believes people who aren’t supposed to have a gun should be the only ones in the system