Under the new law Alabama residents aren’t required to have a permit for a concealed handgun. Sheriff Paul Burch and Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine have some questions about penalties for breaking the law.
“Depending on which rule you violate depends on which class misdemeanor you’re going to be charged with which makes no sense because they’re all violations of the same law,” said Burch.
“It needs to be one statute,” added Prine. ”If you violate any condition of that statute to include the ones that’s already part of the act there’s one charge for it.”
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