Reference is to the bill as introduced.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
/SECTION 1. Section 23-31-510 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 220 of 2008, is further amended to read:
"Section 23-31-510.
No governing body of any county, municipality, or other
political subdivision in the State may enact or promulgate any
regulation or ordinance that regulates or attempts to
regulate:
(1) the transfer,
ownership, possession, carrying, or transportation of
knives, firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, or
any combination of these things; or
(2) a landowner
discharging a firearm on the landowner's property to protect the
landowner's family, employees, the general public, or the
landowner's property from animals that the landowner reasonably
believes pose a direct threat or danger to the landowner's
property, people on the landowner's property, or the general
public. For purposes of this item, the landowner's property
must be a parcel of land comprised of at least twenty-five
contiguous acres. Any ordinance regulating the discharge of
firearms that does not specifically provide for an exclusion
pursuant to this item is unenforceable as it pertains to an
incident described in this item; otherwise, the ordinance is
enforceable."
SECTION 2. Section 23-31-520 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 347 of 2006, is further amended to read:
"Section 23-31-520. This article does not affect the authority of any county, municipality, or political subdivision to regulate the careless or negligent discharge or public brandishment of knives or firearms, nor does it prevent the regulation of public brandishment of firearms during the times of or a demonstrated potential for insurrection, invasions, riots, or natural disasters. This article denies any county, municipality, or political subdivision the power to confiscate a firearm or ammunition unless incident to an arrest."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.