Gambling laws are complicated.
Whenever there’s big gambling news in the state – as there was [last] week with the sale of the Birmingham Racecourse – it tends to spark an onslaught of questions that are a stark reminder of just how convoluted and complicated our gambling laws are, and how confused much of the general public, and even our state lawmakers, are when it comes to those laws.
Over the past few days, since the announcement that the McGregor family was selling the Birmingham Racecourse to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, I have fielded calls from a number of legislators, received dozens of messages from friends and readers and heard accounts of other conversations on just what it all means.
