Only when asked by the officer

Concealed Carry is legal in accordance with state laws that regulate the right to carry

No specific restriction

Schools individually decide the weapons policy

Subject to policy enforcement by local school boards.

Churches act like any other private property and may restrict on a church by church basis

No legal restriction

None

No restrictions

Legal. State law does not require NFA registration. Hunting legal.

Anyone 19 years of age or older who can legally possess a firearm under State and Federal Law can carry a firearm in Alabama without a permit. Those with a permit issued by any state can carry at 18.

Uniform throughout state

None.

Yes

No Duty to Retreat

- Police, sheriff, and highway patrol stations
- Prisons, jails, halfway houses, community corrections facilities, and other detention facilities, inside and on the grounds
- Inpatient or custodial psychiatric and mental health care facilities
- Courthouses and courthouse annexes, including any building a judge designates for proceedings while those proceedings are underway
- Buildings housing a District Attorney's office
- Buildings where a county commission or city council is in session
- The primary office of any elected official
- Facilities hosting school, college, or professional athletic events (permit holders are exempt)
- Any building with continuously posted guards plus screening measures like magnetometers, key cards, biometric scanners, or turnstiles
- K-12 school premises, including school buses, if carrying with intent to do bodily harm (permit holders are otherwise exempt)
- Demonstrations in public places, and within 1,000 feet of one once an officer has told you to clear the area
- College campuses in practice — the University of Alabama and possibly others still enforce campus-wide bans including parking lots, claiming state law doesn't override them. Unsettled
- TVA day-use areas, campgrounds, and developed recreation land (boat ramps and in-season hunting with an unloaded, cased firearm are allowed)
- State parks located on Army Corps of Engineers land, per federal law

Attorney General of Alabama
PO Box 300152
Montgomery, AL 36130
334-242-7300
ago.alabama.gov

Your local county sheriff

Applicants can apply for between 1-5 years as they wish and will pay accordingly.

Apply at your local county sheriff's office