Democratic State Rep. Juandalynn Givan of Birmingham speaks during a forum on Jan. 9, 2024, at the Sunlight District Auditorium in Prichard, Ala.The bill, HB62, would ban bump stocks in Class 1 municipalities, or municipalities with over 300,000 people. According to the Alabama League of Municipalities, Birmingham is the only Class 1 in the state.
If Givan’s bill is signed into law, owning a bump stock in Birmingham would become a Class C felony in Alabama, which carries a sentence anywhere between 366 days and 10 years.Whooping cough found at Alabama schools: What is pertussis? Should parents worry?outside Hush, a hookah and cigar lounge in the popular Five Points South district of Birmingham. Four people were killed and 17 others wounded.
In 2017, a gunman used rifles equipped with bump stocks when he killed 58 people and wounded 850 at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas, Cason reported. That led to a ban on bump stocks by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the Trump administration. But the U.S. Supreme CourtGivan previously pre-filed a bill to ban bump stocks statewide. Her new bill is a local bill and would apply only to Birmingham.