Tyson Helping Crack Down on Illegal Slot Machines 

John Tyson, Jr. is the head of Alabama’s Anti Gambling Task Force, and he is not afraid to speak his mind. He has a very clear idea of what constitutes a slot machine, what is legal in the state, and what he is cracking down on. Many wonder where he stands on the whole slot machine idea and he is more than willing to tell you. 

Appearing on a radio station the other day, Tyson said that illegal slot machines have to go. He said that the state has said that bingo is legal as long as it is with pen and paper and that electronic bingo is not. The courts have ruled that the state’s constitution has clearly stated that slot machines are not legal in the state of Alabama, and that electronic bingo machines are the same thing as slot machines. 

He has been all over the state lately in an attempt to get illegal slot machine parlors closed down, and he said that he has no problem doing his job. He said that the issue at hand is illegal slot machine gambling, and that this is all his job is – to get rid of illegal slot machines as this is what he has been tasked to do. 

He said that many people seem to think that his job is to decide whether or not they should gamble and this is not his job. His only job is to find out where they are running illegal slot machines and to shut them down. That is all he does. He said that illegal slot machines are untaxed and unregulated, and that is not safe for the people playing them, and it means that they don’t have to share their winnings with the state like legal ones would have to do. He was asked about a contribution he received from Milton McGregor, the owner of the now closed Victory Land. Tyson said that it was for his campaign for attorney general and that he would still go after the illegal slot machines that they had if they reopened their doors.