Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange announced on Tuesday that ten facilities across four different counties will no longer be gun-free zones. The locations, which previously displayed signs prohibiting firearms, failed to comply with state law, according to the Attorney General’s investigation.
Earlier this year, Strange’s office handed down a similar decision regarding the use of “no guns allowed” signs in Boutwell Auditorium and Railroad Park.
Signs were removed in each of the following counties at the listed locations.
Blount County
• Snead Town Hall, public park, and senior center
• Blountsville Utility Board
Cullman County
• Baileyton Town Hall
Etowah County
• Rainbow City Recreation Center, Community Center and Library
• Southside City Library
Madison County
• The Optimist Recreation Center in Huntsville
The debate over Second Amendment rights heated up over the summer when 49 people were killed at the Pulse night club in Orlando, Fla. In 2012, 20 school children where killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School – another location where guns were expressly prohibited.
In 2015, Gov. Robert Bentley ordered all “no weapons allowed” signs removed from Alabama’s rest areas after readers of Yellowhammer News contacted the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) asking the agency to justify their policy. A Yellowhammer analysis of the policy found it to be on legally questionable footing, ultimately leading to its reversal.
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