BigFatKen
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I looked and looked but I cannot find one case of permit holders and crimes.
help?
BY PAUL GATTIS
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Pistol permits are a financial boon to the Madison County sheriff's department but that's not why Sheriff Blake Dorning opposes a Senate bill that would eliminate them.
"We hear it's just a money thing," Dorning said Wednesday. "No, it's not. It's a life and death safety issue for our men and women because the equipment we're able to provide them with drastically makes them more efficient and more able to address the situations that they come into every day."
Senate bill attacks safety of police, sheriff says
"It is a threat to law abiding citizens like you and me and a threat to this great state and country."
Dorning and other top department officials held a press conference Wednesday to follow up on the open letter the sheriff posted online over the weekend.
Capt. Michael Salomonsky outlined a handful of cases where law enforcement tracked down criminals through their pistol permits as evidence for the need to oppose the bill introduced by Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa.
The bill would repeal the requirement to have a permit to conceal carry a pistol. It would also allow conceal carry at events such as demonstrations and protest rallies. Without the criminal background checks required for a permit, applicants with a violent criminal past would be able to conceal carry, Dorning said.
Officials also met head-on the issue of money associated with the permit fees, saying that the permits yield about $700,000 annually to the department.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/02/its_not_just_a_money_thing_she.html
help?
BY PAUL GATTIS
[email protected]
Pistol permits are a financial boon to the Madison County sheriff's department but that's not why Sheriff Blake Dorning opposes a Senate bill that would eliminate them.
"We hear it's just a money thing," Dorning said Wednesday. "No, it's not. It's a life and death safety issue for our men and women because the equipment we're able to provide them with drastically makes them more efficient and more able to address the situations that they come into every day."
Senate bill attacks safety of police, sheriff says
"It is a threat to law abiding citizens like you and me and a threat to this great state and country."
Dorning and other top department officials held a press conference Wednesday to follow up on the open letter the sheriff posted online over the weekend.
Capt. Michael Salomonsky outlined a handful of cases where law enforcement tracked down criminals through their pistol permits as evidence for the need to oppose the bill introduced by Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa.
The bill would repeal the requirement to have a permit to conceal carry a pistol. It would also allow conceal carry at events such as demonstrations and protest rallies. Without the criminal background checks required for a permit, applicants with a violent criminal past would be able to conceal carry, Dorning said.
Officials also met head-on the issue of money associated with the permit fees, saying that the permits yield about $700,000 annually to the department.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/02/its_not_just_a_money_thing_she.html