To use a gun to defend your life, the lives of your family and others (such as during a mass shooting) and then to go to jail for having a gun is an alien concept to this Alabaman who's still protected by the (law of the land?) Second Amendment.
Well, just plain living under rule by fear Communism is an altogether alien concept to me. As alien as a being foreign does not belong here circumstance.
Trouble is, exceller on this thread is right.

Why I refer to my NY State as a Communist State.
My aunt had a handgun and before she died she packed boxes with her things and put names on them. My wife and I got my grandmothers old cast iron cookware. It sat in my basement for years until I wanted to use her old Dutch oven pot. In the pot I found her gun and permit. I had an unregistered handgun for over 10 years and never knew it. It is legal now thanks to my county Sheriff. Her gun was on her permit and this was known to the NYS Police permit bureau. Why did they never ever ask where her gun ended up? Most of the contents of her home were sold to a guy who cleans out houses and he could certainly have ended up with the gun because we looked all over for it and just gave up thinking she must have sold it. I have rifles from long before NY ever kept any such records and the NYS SAFE act is a complete joke if they have no idea who has what guns from long before records were ever kept. They are attempting to put toothpaste back in the tube with all of these new restrictions but it is actually a back door way to make law abiding residents into instant felons.

As well it should be! I am just concerned, though, with the influx of Kalifornians and other overtaxed and under-intelligent people who think "more of their same they came from" will make Texas better. Or to state it differently, "will make Texas Beto."

UGH.

In Texas, even your car is considered under the 'Castle Law'. Same as your home.

Earlier this year, I saw the Supremes ruled against the government for seizing a guy's property because of a $250 fine. They had to release it! They ruled 'excessive fines and forfeitures'. Wonder how much this man's fine was and what the value of his home is?

Nope. The City of Birmingham may have some gun shops and a couple of second-rate target ranges I know of and host an occasional gun show at the civic center (bought an AR-15 as a present for my son there) but the city is now a blue blemish on a red state run by Democrats.
The first rate indoor target range me dino prefers is in Hoover, Birmingham's most ritzy of satellite cities where the Galleria mall with an elevator connected to a major hotel is at. That hotel is where dignitaries and celebrities who come to Birmingham are apt to spend their nights.

Are you sure Dino it would not happen in Alabama?

The way things are "progressing" you are probably not far from it.

What Democrat Socialists do always needs to be reversed to save this country.

Lets See: one Dem controlled state takes away the need of a search warrant. New York states attempts to nullify the 2nd. It appears that Democrat controlled states are working on the total destruction of the Bill of Rights and the underlaying philosophy that established the natural rights argument.
SCOTUS needs to reverse this one also.