Alabama - How are they for gun rights?

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I lived in Alabama for years before moving south for my job. Great people there, and a great football team in T-town.

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Born in the Birmingham area in 48, mother moved to Walker Cty a few months later. At age 17 I walked out the door and caught a Bus going to Montgomery for induction into the Navy. Swore that never in a million years would I return to the sticks of Alabama. Well in 1969 I did return, bought my mother's home and raised my family there. I have traveled to all corners of the US and a few other countries but so far this has been the best place I have ever found. As for FOOTBALL, be careful which team you chose because more arguments have erupted over this than the choices made in the civil war. Be prepared to meet a car or truck and have the driver raise their hand in a waving gesture of friendship for no apparent reason. I can only think of one family that is not 100% pro gun but even then they don't rant about an evil gun. Watch political commercials prior to elections and most candidates will either have a rifle or shotgun over their shoulder and sometime while on horse back. Alabama has it's draw backs but overall one of the best places in the county
 
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Born in the Birmingham area in 48, mother moved to Walker Cty a few months later. At age 17 I walked out the door and caught a Bus going to Montgomery for induction into the Navy. Swore that never in a million years would I return to the sticks of Alabama. Well in 1969 I did return, bought my mother's home and raised my family there. I have traveled to all corners of the US and a few other countries but so far this has been the best place I have ever found. As for FOOTBALL, be careful which team you chose because more arguments have erupted over this than the choices made in the civil war. Be prepared to meet a car or truck and have the driver raise their hand in a waving gesture of friendship for no apparent reason. I can only think of one family that is not 100% pro gun but even then they don't rant about an evil gun. Watch political commercials prior to elections and most candidates will either have a rifle or shotgun over their shoulder and sometime while on horse back. Alabama has it's draw backs but overall one of the best places in the county
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Move this story to Huntsville, fast forward forty years, and change Navy to Marine Corps and that is basically my life story also.
 
Back on that football subject. I was a self declared UAT (offensive referral to the University of Alabama) fan until I graduated from Auburn. My mother went to UAT, dad went to UAH so there were some ties.

After seeing the light and putting on the orange and blue, I decided that my former advice / suggestion / demand to new friends who made moved in from out of state to choose a team were highly misguided. If you choose to wear orange and blue or red and white, do it because you have some ties to the school. Not because you went to WalMart. It rarely fails that any sports fan becomes wrapped around the axle with one of the two schools. Usually it's UAT given the level of success coming from Tuscaloosa, and the overall level of suction coming from Auburn (they have teed me off on the academic side as well).

Welcome to God's Country. I've never lived anywhere else, and won't as long as I have a choice. We have everything except desert. Beaches, hills, woods, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, football, baseball, hockey, etc. It's here. Outside the cities, expect help if you're on the side of the road with a flat tire. If your battery is dead, the truck parked next to you likely has jumper cables in it. When you pass someone on the road, you're probably going to get an extended finger, and ot won't be the middle one. It's the country boy wave.

The cities here are like anywhere else in the country unfortunately. I'm in Huntsville and the accents are predominately NOT from Alabama. The southern accents are folks coming here to shop. It's not unusual to have people ignore your flat tire on the side of the road. On the times I've helped someone with my jumper cables (or stopped to change a lady's tire), I've been asked if they could give me a few bucks. We've been invaded by outsiders.

Funny thing about those outsiders? They complain while they're here. They can't wait to move back to Michigan, NY, Colorado, etc. After a while, the program they're working finishes up and they go back to where they came from. About 1-2 years later, you run into those same folks in the mall or at a restaurant. They missed it here and moved back...
 
Funny thing about those outsiders? They complain while they're here. They can't wait to move back to Michigan, NY, Colorado, etc. After a while, the program they're working finishes up and they go back to where they came from.
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I'm a transplantee from the Chicago area, and you could not pay me to leave Huntsville and go back. WHen I do go back north to visit, I can't wait to get back "home" to AL. ;)

I'll admit a lot of Huntsville's "southern charm" is diluted by the number northerners living here, but its still much friendlier than Chicago or Birmingham (where I lived when I first moved to AL). Plus it still benefits from all the other things good about AL (climate, outdoors, gun laws, etc).
 
Been up in N Ala off and on for about 50 years. Wife and I bought a camper to travel and see things. Haven't been anywhere cause all we want to do is within 30 minutes of home. Tennessee River, camping, Bankhead, hunting, shooting, ect. Can't remember ever not having a gun or few around. Alabama is a good state for firearms.
 
Thank you for all of the positive responses. I have been somewhat underwhelmed with Texas. While they do have some good laws they have excessive training for concealed carry and no open carry. Can't wait to get there.


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I'm a Virginia Tech fan and just hope my car doesn't get set on fire if they win in the Georgia Dome vs Alabama.
 
Ingsoc75 said:
Same here. The local range is pretty empty whenever there is a game on. :)
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Best time to go. That was the ONLY good thing about Auburn sucking last year. Games were over by 1 and Bama was playing late. Empty everything. Save for fellow moping Auburn folks.
 
adams484:
My folks live in Fairhope, just across the bay from Mobile.

When they moved there, friends noticed that they were "football neutral"; therefore, they were assigned Auburn as the team to root for.
AL people seem to have a good sense of humour about it when compared to many Texas versus Aggie fans. Some of those TX people act like they belong to ancient, warring tribes.
 
If you stay here 5 years,you want go back(darn it)
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No,you won't want to go back and that's a fact Jack! I'm a native Alabaman of 60 years and there is NO state I'd rather live in! The fact that we are very gun friendly is a plus but not the only factor. PS, you can hunt on private land here with your 30 round magazine if you like(just be SURE to have written permission to be there)!
 
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