Last February, at Rip's One Stop, just across the DeKalb County line in Cherokee County, undercover officers caught owner Rip Van Davis, 64, and his daughter, Lisa Davis King, 38, conspiring to sell key substances used in making methamphetamines.

The case was tried by a U.S. district court, and the two were sentenced in February to spend almost six years in prison.

Though the Davis's were successfully prosecuted, some lawmakers in Montgomery want to make sure that in cases like the Davis case, a loophole contained in the state code cannot be used to let retailers off the hook who knowingly contribute to the manufacture of methamphetamines.

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