"The Internal Revenue Service says Class III gaming “consists of card games played against the house, slot machines, dog and horse racing, jai alai and all other types of casino gaming.”

So what are those machines with bells, whistles and flashing lights at the three Poarch Creek Indian Casinos in Alabama? Go to the IRS.gov question site and Class III is the class of gambling in which slot machines are played. But are the machines in the Indian casinos real slot machines? Even if they were, some say it appears they would be legal in Alabama.

Nonetheless, our “astute” Attorney General Luther Strange is now asking the Federal Indian Gaming Commission (IGC), the group that oversees Indian gambling, to take action to prohibit “slot machinelike” electronic bingo machines at the state’s Indian casinos.

Tribes cannot offer Las Vegas-style Class III games such as table games and slot machines unless they have a compact with the states where they are located. There’s no such compact in Alabama."

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