Still Fighting Over Slot Machines

Operation All Bets Are Off is still going full speed, but some are asking why they get to keep harassing businesses when there is no evidence to back them up. The fact of the matter is that as far as the Attorney General’s Office is concerned, the machines in question are slot machines, but the courts seem to be wondering if that is really fact or just supposition.

State AG has said that video gaming machines are illegal as they fulfill all of the requirements to be considered slot machines – and they are illegal in the state. On Friday, the task force assigned to crack down on the illegal machines made ten more raids of businesses, just as in the past, only this time no slot machines were seized. According to their fearless leader – they are simply obtaining evidence.

METRICH Commander Lt. Dino Sgambellone said that the statute is clear, they are slot machines and they are illegal. He says that they are not making a judgment on gambling or on the machines; they are simply following the letter of the law.

They say that the machines that are being used are not skill based machines, which is the only thing that would make them legal. They are slot machines pure and simple – a fact that they have been fighting for about two years now.

Patrons that arrived at the businesses as the raid was taking place insisted that there was nothing illegal going on – that they weren’t slot machines. They wanted to know why they were going after something as harmless as this, when they could be going after real criminals.

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