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BILL STARLING Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran was one of the most vocal opponents of Constitutional Carry in the state of Alabama over the past couple of years, even to the point of firing the state represenative who sponsored the bill in the House from his job as captain in the sheriff’s department last year.
Despite Cochran’s repeated attempts to scuttle the legislation, the sheriff didn’t get his way and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a Constitutional Carry bill into law just a couple of weeks ago. You might think that would finally get Cochran to give up his anti-carrying crusade, but you’d be wrong. Now the sheriff claims that if Constitutional Carry was already in effect (the bill will officially take effect on January 1, 2023), his office wouldn’t have been able to make any arrests after shots were fired at a vigil held for two recent murder victims. “As most of you know, I fought hard to prevent PERMIT LESS CARRY [sic] from passing in Montgomery. Our legislatures ignored the voices of Law Enforcement and passed the bill anyway,” Cochran said in a Facebook post from his office Thursday night. “Had permit less [sic] carry already been active last weekend, then there would be NO arrest [sic], NO seizer [sic] of guns and NO way of knowing whether or not those guns were stolen or used in other crimes.” Cochran’s claims aren’t just grammatically incorrect. According to Rep. Scott Stringer, the chief sponsor of the Constitutional Carry bill and the former employee of Cochran, the sheriff is simply wrong. “‘Constitutional carry’ is not the issue,” he said. “The bill states that law enforcement officers are still allowed to conduct investigations into criminal activity. Probable cause allows officers to conduct investigations and arrests into criminal activity.” The lawmaker said […]
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