Mobile City Council to consider allowing dove, quail in the city

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Dove and quail hunting could soon be coming to Mobile as city council members introduced an amendment that would impact discharging gun laws.

The amendment, sponsored by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, would be added to Section 62.1 of the Mobile City Code which covers discharging firearms and guns.

Currently, the amendment reads, "It shall be unlawful for any person within the city or within the police jurisdiction thereof to discharge any firearm or instrument of like character or description, except in military parades or reviews or in defense of self, home or family, or to discharge any air gun, spring gun or any implement which impels with force a metal pellet of any kind."

With the amendment in place, Sec. 62.1 would provide exceptions in allowing the hunting of bobwhite quail and mourning and/or white-winged doves, according to the ordinance to amend documents in the city counci...