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Be careful Mississippian, when your open carrying, alot of mobile police, city cops don't know the law, or they know it , but refuse to obey it, they think there above it.
I guess they just don't like the fact that we civilians have a rights to open carry in the state of Alabama just like they do. After doing all my research a few months ago, and then a couple days ago going out making a shitload of those trifold info sheets, I called mcso permit area and a deputy answered, I talked with him for about a minute, he knew the law and said that he knows we have the right and he doesn't agree with it, but thats the law, and thats its. Now while I was out and about passing out these trifold flyers, a ran by the mobile police headquarters on goverment and spoke with a corporal police office in his fifties I think and he was black, thats all I really remember, I remember looking or glancing at his name tag but it was to hard to see. Anyways to make a long story short, he said he see something like the trifold I handed him, and shit like that and he said if you open carry in mobile you will be arrested, even after I told him that you know that would be a illegal arrest cause your breaking the law by disobeying the Alabama Constitution, he said I 'm not going to debate this with you, I asked to speak to his supervisors like a Lt. or Capt. and he said he'll pass on the flyers to them, but he didn't contact them to let me speak with them, and he reminded one more time before I left out the door to remember if I OC in mobile I will be arrested, I said thanks corporal and left out of there needless to say very pissed off that this guy was so stuck in being ignorant, he refused to see the truth. Mobile city has a some sort of city ordinance that prevents OC'ing in mobile city limits, however in the Alabama constitution it says under article 11-80-11 that there not allowed to make up such a law like that. So if a LEO made a arrest on that he would be illegally arresting and illegally charging you, because your protected by the Al. constitution on that. This corporal wanted to try and make it sound the way he wanted it to be and not the way it really is, that pisses me off, people come there for legal information and he doesn't even know what he's talking about, no wonder everyone is so afraid to open carry around here, its because guys like that. What needs to happen is everyone on here that lives within mobile county needs to contact there legislator for the particular area and get mobile city to lift this illegal law that shouldn't be there in the firstplace.
Needless to say I will be contacting the Chief of Police for mobile and telling him about this particular officer and that the legal citizens of mobile do have the right to open carry wear allowed by the protection of the Alabama Constitution. I will request a appointment to see him since , the corporal wasn't to pleasant. The old saying goes there's a sucker born every second, I beginning to believe it shoulda been there's a idiot out there born every second.
