HB8 Alabama 2013 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Firearms, right to bear arms, strict scrutiny standard required for certain denials of right, const. amend.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, provides that every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself or herself and the state</p><p class="bill_description"> This proposed amendment would provide that every citizen has a fundamental right to bear arms and that any restriction on this right would be subject to strict scrutiny</p><p class="bill_description"> This proposed amendment would also provide that a citizen cannot be compelled by international treaty or law from taking actions that prohibit, limit, or otherwise interfere with the fundamental right to bear arms</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Proposing an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901; to provide that every citizen has a fundamental right to bear arms and that any restriction on this right would be subject to strict scrutiny; and to provide that no international treaty or law shall prohibit, limit, or otherwise interfere with a citizen's fundamental right to bear arms. </p>

Subjects

Constitutional Amendments