DNC security nuts...

[Zundfolge]

Besides, CCW is actually illegal in the City of Denver

Denver tried to outlaw CCW in its borders, but the State Supreme Court smacked Hickenlooper's widdle hand and overturned their silly ban. Their equally silly AWB is still in place, but it only applies to people that live there.

 

[schloe]

CCW is most certainly NOT ILLEGAL in Denver

 

[230RN]

Yeah, CCW is legal in Denver. But I ain't packin' when I go into town this AM, that's fer suuuuure.

 

[XDKingslayer]

So you couldn't take a knife into a building full of knives...

 

[Treo]

I'm one of those that avoids Denver if at all possible, that said it would never occur to me not to carry if I had to go.

I think it's kinda scary that people who know their rights are afraid to excersise them. What can they do, charge you W/ legally carrying a concealed weapon?

 

[FourTeeFive]

I hear people slamming Seattle all the time for being liberal, but we've got it good compared to Denver! Crazy stuff for a "mountain" state.

 

[leadcounsel]

I would have surrendered the knife, gone in and found the manager or owner and told him that the incident cost his business X number or $ and then taken my knife and business elsewhere.

 

[Flyboy]

I'd like to know who has the authority to enact "rules" more restrictive than the laws passed by the legislature just because a big party is in town.

I understand SS security for the candidate comes under Federal jurisdiction, but he wasn't around yesterday. On whose authority are these restrictions of liberty being enacted?

 

[ScottE]

I think this has less to do with Denver, and more to do with all the previous riots at the DNC's and RNC's. This restaurant is a national chain (Bubba Gump Shrimp), and was obviously planning on having trouble considering the amount of security. Management, in my opinion, is more to blame than city officials. I walked past dozens of LEO's with my knife clipped to my pocket, and no one batted an eye.

This thread was not intended to bash Colorado, Denver, DNC officials, or any one other than restaurant management. I have never considered my little knife to be a weapon, and was just trying to get an idea if this was something that happens regularly.

Scott

 

[Echo Tango]

I have to travel to Denver( see Aurora) this week for work and I am kind of dreading it. I usually travel with a firearm, I can't see that happening this week. Already one hunter was detained( i dont know if he was arrested or being held/charged) for checking into a hotel with a cased rifle.

 

[Owen]

hkOrion, tone it down

 

[swifteagle]

Echo Tango said:

I have to travel to Denver( see Aurora) this week for work and I am kind of dreading it. I usually travel with a firearm, I can't see that happening this week. Already one hunter was detained( i dont know if he was arrested or being held/charged) for checking into a hotel with a cased rifle.

I believe I had read that the Hunter was booked for having handguns in his luggage bags without having a CCW permit. I don't know what the law is in Colorado, but in many States the law requires that guns be carried in obviously marked gun cases rather than normal luggage, unless you have a CCW permit.

Anyone know what the law is in Colorado on how to "properly" store a gun so that it is not considered concealed?

 

[hkOrion]

I believe I had read that the Hunter was booked for having handguns in his luggage bags without having a CCW permit.

I read on another site that he actually had a pistol IWB without a permit. That report came from the spouse of a DPD officer (that's what they stated). If so, then it's a good arrest. If not, then who knows.

 

[230RN]

I got back around noon-thirty from a necessary trip to a downtown office within a couple hundred feet of the MSNBC pavilion.

Uniforms everywhere, mostly armed, on that end of the 16th Street Mall, nearest the bus and train station and the Pepsi Center, along with cars and dogs.

Believe me, I wasn't worried about any personal attacks.

The old saw about swinging a cat came to mind.

And also believe me, this was not the time or place to "test your rights."

Sad but true.

And sad but practical.

230RN said that.

 

[Jeff White]

This story would have been funnier if you'd have been packing ... leaving the knife with the door guy but walking in with your concealed handgun.

Security Theater at its finest.

That exact thing happened to me a couple years ago at the courthouse. I had an appointment in the States Attorney's office to discuss a case. I walked up to the metal detector, showed the female corrections officer who was working overtime at the security checkpoint my badge and ID, she waved me through, but before I got past her she noticed the clip from my Emerson CQC8 and said;

"You have to leave your knife with me."

I stopped, thought for a minute and quietly said,

"Cindy, you're going to let me take my gun in, but not my knife?"

She thought about it for a minute and told me to go on in. Later I mentioned this to a Sergeant on the Sheriff's Dept and he laughed and said he guess that she thought it was ok to shoot someone in the courthouse, but had a problem with people being stabbed there.

People just don't think......She had probably been holding pocket knives all day and it never registered with her that also had a firearm on me.

Jeff

 

[ScottyT]

This story would have been funnier if you'd have been packing ... leaving the knife with the door guy but walking in with your concealed handgun.

Security Theater at its finest.

That has happened to me! I was going to a party with some out of town friends at a bar downtown (I don't drink, fyi) and the security guy noticed my multi-tool in a pouch on my belt. He made me take it off and leave it at the door -- I would have just left if I was there alone or just with the wife or something, but I couldn't bail on my friends that I only see once a year. We go in and sit down when, about 20 minutes into the conversation one of the out-of-towners asks if I really had to give up my knife at the door. I say yes, then he asks, "But don't you always carry a gun too?" I just throw him a little knowing smile and he thought it was the funniest thing ever!

 

[RobNDenver]

You think you have it bad in Denver?? Check this out in St Paul. . .

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/convention_beat/archive/2008/08/a_choice_of_weapons.shtml

 

[dalepres]

And having your knife confiscated is exactly why you should have had your CCW.

 

[rondog]

Please post the statute! Open Carry is prohibited in the City and County of Denver, CCW with a valid permit is perfectly legal.

Boy, I'm glad to hear this! I guess I was mistaken, must have been the OC thing I'd heard was illegal. Now I don't have to worry about carrying anymore? Sweet! Been doing it every day anyway, just scared that I'd get "made" and caught. Too many maggots on the streets near my office to NOT carry, IMO. I frequently have to be downtown after midnight too. Being old and fat, with two bad knees, makes me feel like an easy target. A target with a surprise under my shirttail.

 

[SomeKid]

Rob,

If I was a photographer with a few photographer friends I would be willing to spend days on end walking around taking random worthless pictures while my friend stayed quietly a distance behind me, and took evidence via photographs/video of my rights being violated. I would need never to work again.

 

[dalepres]

I would need never to work again.

I agree that the infringement of the first amendment is as offensive as infringements on the second amendment but I can't help but chuckling at all of the comments people post here about never having to work again or going to own the place that didn't let them carry or whatever lawsuit comes to mind.

First off, I don't see a lot of juries giving money in lawsuits to gunowners. And I don't see any of those talking about them ever really filing them.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

"First off, I don't see a lot of juries giving money in lawsuits to gunowners. And I don't see any of those talking about them ever really filing them"

and its not that hard to file

all smoke

 

[SomeKid]

dale,

First, it would not be a gun related lawsuit.

Two, I have yet to be violated in such a manner that enabled me to file. Re-read my post, and you see the circumstances I laid out.

 

[Checkman]

Unless of course your friend talked and told them what you had been doing. Might make your milk and honey lawsuit somewhat harder to achieve.

 

[SomeKid]

If my friend did his job right he wouldn't be involved, and wouldn't have to talk at all.