Some Alabama sheriffs say they're already experiencing revenue shortfalls now that the state will no longer require handgun owners to buy a permit beginning Jan. 1. alnews gunpermits handguns alabamanewsnetwork
Sheriffs across Alabama have been experiencing revenue shortfalls as early as January of this year, leading up to Gov. Kay Ivey signing into law a bill that will no longer require handgun owners to have a permit for their firearms beginning Jan. 1.
“We’ll budget around it best we can,” he said. He said for every $10 in pistol permits collected $6 goes to the county commission’s general fund, while $4 goes directly to the sheriff’s department. “Pistol permits started to decline almost the minute the ink was dry ,” Brasfield said. “Because of all the publicity, people stopped renewing their permits.”
Alabama sheriffs for years have used revenue generated by pistol permits to pay for items not included in their annual budgets, Hamilton said.Williamson said he tries to purchase at least two vehicles per year with pistol permit revenue. In fact his vehicle is purchased from that revenue. He also has spent it on training, ammunition, weapons, clothing and other items.
Brasfield said the original act which ended pistol permits contained a section that provided a grant program designed to help fill the revenue void left by the elimination of pistol permits.Brasfield also said the grant program would use 2022 as a baseline for determining how much revenue a sheriff’s department has lost.“The way they’ve got that written, if you go by this year, we won’t get hardly anything,” Williamson said.
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