Alabama gun control

Alabama legislation to expand Medicaid coverage and regulate firearms outlaw are just two state bills being watched by children’s advocates. Lawmakers may try to prevent the use of devices to turn weapons into machine guns. Another measure may try to make Medicaid more available to pregnant women to reduce infant mortality.

A bipartisan coalition in Alabama has come together to endorse a public safety package that would ban devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns. The group of mayors, lawmakers and law enforcement marks a rare consensus on gun restrictions and a departure from years of conflict about how to stem gun violence.

An Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in connection with a July mass shooting in Birmingham that left four people dead and 10 wounded. Twenty-two-year-old Damien McDaniel was also arrested and charged with capital murder in October in connection with a separate quadruple homicide that took place in September.

Alabama law enforcement agencies are voicing their opposition to a change in the state’s gun laws, which they say will interfere with combatting crime

Twenty-one states are asking a federal appeals court to overturn provisions of Maryland's gun-control law that ban 45 assault weapons and limit gun…

Montgomery County sheriff's officials say they've ordered about 3,000 stickers to distribute to area business owners who don't want people carrying guns…

Leaders of the Alabama Senate say they expect to consider a bill easing some of Alabama's gun restrictions. The bill by Republican Sen. Scott Beason of…

An Alabama House committee has approved a bill to allow a person to carry a pistol in his or her vehicle without a permit if the person is going to a…

The Alabama Legislature will face several gun rights bills when it convenes Tuesday for its 2013 session. Republican Rep. Mike Jones of Andalusia is…

(Information in the following story is from: The Huntsville Times, http://www.al.com/huntsville) A congressman from Huntsville says he believes New York…