In 2011, Alabama enacted a law prohibiting any person from knowingly soliciting, encouraging, persuading, or enticing another person to transfer a firearm or ammunition under circumstances the person knows would violate federal or Alabama law.¹

The 2011 law also penalizes someone who provides a seller of firearms or ammunition with what the person knows to be materially false information with the intent to deceive the seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm or ammunition.²

Alabama law also prohibits:

• Anyone from giving false information or offering false evidence of identity in purchasing or otherwise securing delivery of a handgun or in applying for a license to carry a handgun.³

• A licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer from conducting the transfer or purchase of a firearm without conducting a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (“NICS”);⁴ and

• The possession, receipt, sale, or use of a firearm after the maker, model, manufacturer’s number or other mark or identification has been changed, altered, removed, or obliterated.⁵

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1. Ala. Code § 13A-11-58.1.[↩]
2. Id.[↩]
3. Ala. Code § 13A-11-81.[↩]
4. Ala. Code § 41-9-649.[↩]
5. Ala. Code § 13A-11-64(b).[↩]