The four arrests made and the guns seized at the vigil over the weekend for Mobile’s double homicide victims would not have been possible if the newly signed permitless carry law was already in effect, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said Thursday.
Cochran made the statement in a Facebook post tying the area’s state representatives who voted for the law to the suspects.
“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.”
Four people were arrested after shots were fired at a Sunday night vigil. Three of the four were arrested for carrying a pistol without a license, among other charges.
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Stringer told AL.com that Cochran’s statement was inaccurate, and that permitless carry -- called constitutional carry by Second Amendment advocates -- would have had no bearing on Mobile police’s job on the shots fired call from Sunday night.
https://www.al.com/news/2022/03/mobile-sheriff-links-murder-vigil-shooting-to-new-alabama-gun-law-sponsors-ignored-the-voices-of-law-enforcement.html
Proving yet again, that the issuing of permits needs to be taken away from the sheriffs.