donato said:
The Alabama firearms law states that a person may not carry a pistol unto property not under his ownership (private property). The statement is definitive/absolute and there are no allowances addressed except for law enforcement type folks.
donato,
Who told you that is what the law said? You might want to look at the statute posted below. What the law makes illegal is to carry a CONCEALED handgun WITHOUT a license on property other than one's own. You can open carry without a license and you can conceal carry with a license on other's property without breaking the law.
13A-11-73. License to carry pistol;
generally. No person shall carry a pistol in any
vehicle or
concealed on or about his person,
except on his land, in his own abode or fixed
place of business,
without a license therefor as
hereinafter provided.
13A-11-74. License to carry pistol;
exceptions. The provisions of Section 13A-11-
73 shall not apply to marshals, sheriffs, prison
and jail wardens and their regularly employed
deputies, policemen and other law enforcement
officers of any state or political subdivision
thereof, or to the members of the army, navy or
marine corps of the United States or of the
national guard, or to the members of the national
guard organized reserves or state guard
organizations when on duty or going to or from
duty, or to the regularly enrolled members of any
organization duly authorized to purchase or
receive such weapons from the United States or
from this state; provided, that such members are
at or are going to or from their places of
assembly or target practices, or to officers or
employees of the United States duly authorized
to carry a pistol, or to any person engaged in
manufacturing, repairing or dealing in pistols, or
the agent or representative of such person
possessing, using, or carrying a pistol in the
usual or ordinary course of such business, or to
any common carrier, except taxi-cabs, licensed
as a common carrier, or to any person permitted
by law to possess a pistol while carrying it
unloaded in a secure wrapper, from the place of
purchase to his home or place of business, or to
or from a place of repair or in moving from one
place of abode or business to another.