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Senator outlines legal landscape on open carry and vaccine mandates ahead of session
Summary
At an Opelika town hall, Senator Chevron Jones explained a recent court ruling on open carry created a prosecutorial rule and said the legislature must act to set regulatory standards; he also discussed limits on state authority over vaccine mandates.
State Senator Chevron Jones used a town-hall forum in Opelika to summarize recent legal developments and to tell residents the legislature must clarify rules on open carry and vaccine mandates.
On open carry, Jones said a court ruling has found the state's prior open-carry laws unconstitutional and that the attorney general issued prosecutorial guidance. "The Supreme Court has ruled that our open carry laws that were on the books were deemed unconstitutional," Jones said. He added that while prosecutors…
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