The Alabama Legislature Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would attempt to nullify executive presidential orders on guns.
The bill, SB 2, sponsored by Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, passed the Alabama House of Representatives 68 to 28 after it amended the bill on the floor. The Senate concurred in the changes on a 23 to 5 vote Thursday afternoon. The legislation goes to Gov. Kay Ivey. …
The bill, likely to run afoul of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, would prohibit officials and employees of state government from enforcing a presidential order that “limits or restricts the ownership, use, or possession of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories by law-abiding citizens of the state.”
The House version drops a provision from a Senate bill that would suspend the prohibition if it threatened federal funding. Earlier versions of Allen’s bill far more explicitly attacked the Biden administration. One would have expired after the end of Biden’s current term in office. …
Democrats in both chambers said the bill could not be enforced.
“State law can’t supersede federal law,” said Rep. Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove. “So if that is the case, this piece of legislation is not worth the weight of the paper that it is written on.”
– Brian Lyman in Lawmakers Approve Bill to Nullify Presidential Gun Orders; Democrats Say it’s Unenforceable
