Jaw dropping video was given to FOX10 News. It shows what appears to be young men dancing with guns in their hands in a gas station parking lot in west Mobile.

The sheriff called it reckless and brazen and said he’s doing something about it.

This as the Stimpson Administration and the Mobile Chief of Police deal with, what they have said, is a power struggle between the two.

While showing us the video, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch explained what he saw the young men holding, “That’s a 100 round drum. That was on the one you just saw....You got another one, a handgun. That was the one with the drum and it’s a AR platform pistol...The one you just saw with the wood stock, is an AK 47 type pistol... And then the one flashing the laser with the cup in his hand is a pistol with it with a laser on it.”

The time on the video said it’s 1:09 a.m. Burch said it’s not even in an area in Mobile with a high crime rate.

“There are a lot of people who take wild guesses where this happened, but it’s actually in west Mobile, at Grelot and Knollwood,” said Burch.

The sheriff said the activity on its own, isn’t technically illegal, due to the open carry law passed two years ago in Alabama, but he said it’s about the people in the video.

“We received the video a few weeks ago and that’s what’s most alarming about this. You’ve got these guys riding around and conducting themselves like this with with firearms,” said Burch.

Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine, who is on administrative leave and tells us he’s retiring, said he showed the video on March 2 to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson. Prine said he stressed the need for better access to the Gulf Coast Technology Lab to identify the people in the video.

In an interview with FOX10′s Ariel Mallory last week, Prine said, “Do you know that my criminal investigators have to go to the sheriff and his people that run his intelligence unit to do the same thing that my people are required to do?”

We’re told the Gulf Coast Technology Lab is used by 43 different law enforcement agencies to help them identify suspects and fight crime.

During FOX10′s Shelby Myers sit down interview with the mayor on Friday, to some extent, he agreed with the chief of police.

Stimpson said, “So the point that Chief Prine was making in showing that video to me and to others is that you know, this is what we’re dealing with and we need the Gulf Coast Technology Center to be able to identify these individuals and give us information in a timely basis. I do not disagree with that, okay.”

The sheriff said he’s still studying the video and feels action should be taken.

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