A Pistol at the Credit Union

On March 31, 2011, Jason Tulley walked into a credit union in Jacksonville, Alabama, with an unconcealed pistol in a hip holster. An off-duty police officer working security told him to remove it; Tulley cited his constitutional rights but put the gun back in his vehicle. He was arrested days later under a city ordinance adopting the state misdemeanor of carrying a pistol on premises not one's own. The state statute itself set no punishment; the city ordinance supplied one.