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Legal Information: Alabama

State Gun Laws

Laws current as of October 3, 2025

What is a felony?

In this section about gun laws, we discuss laws that ban people from having a gun if they were found guilty (convicted) of a felony. A felony is a more serious crime than a misdemeanor. In Alabama, it means a crime that can be punished by more than one year in prison.1

However, you cannot always tell if someone was convicted of a felony by looking at how long they were in prison. Criminal sentences are often reduced or pled down, which means that a person may serve less time. If you don’t know whether the abuser was convicted of a felony, you might ask the prosecutor who handled the criminal case or go to the courthouse where they were convicted and search the record.

1 Ala. Code § 13A-1-2(8)

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