Man arrested for bringing gun into Thornton movie theater

[SuperiorDG]

This is really F_ed up. The manager of the theater, not understanding the law calls police and they believe him and ticket the guy.

The Post
9News

THORNTON - Police in Thornton responded to the Cinebarre movie theater at 10001 Grant St. for an incident on Sunday evening.
An employee of the theater tells 9NEWS that a patron carried a gun in a holster into the building. The patron had a permit to carry the weapon.
According to their website, Cinebarre is a movie theater that allows you to eat food and consume drinks -including alcoholic beverages during the film.
According to the employee, the manager called police, claiming the weapon was against Colorado's Concealed Carry law.
The Rocky Mountain Gun Owners organization, which provides an extensive explanation of concealed carry laws on their website, says concealed carry is not automatically prohibited in establishments that serve alcohol, but private business owners have the right to prohibit concealed weapons on their property.
9NEWS has reached out to Thornton police for official comment on the situation but has not heard back.
The theater was also not available for comment.
(KUSA-TV © 2012 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)

[buffalobo]

Of course, they "reached" out to police for comment and theater mgmt, did they reach out to citizen for his comment?

I personally would decline comment until all legal aspects settled, but shows the bias common in news reporting today.

Guy is a perp to the media.

[theGinsue]

The title of the article might as well have been:
"Armed Man Arrested At Area Movie Theater - Hundreds Of Lives Saved"

Nope, no bias there at all. [/sarcasm]

[DOC]

I'm not going there anymore. No guns. Makes it sound to dangerous for me and my family.
And I liked that place. Even though the movies I seen there were crap and I wanted my money back. I thought they were onto something.
I think he was within his rights.
Let me see ", the right to keep and BEAR arms shall not be infringed." I'm no legal scholar like our president but I think if he wanted to open carry all the theater could do was ask him to leave and the police could do nothing but comply with what the scared little bitches in the theater wanted. Giving him a ticket is like asking Rosa Parks to get to the back of the bus or be arrested. IMHO.

[buffalobo]

I think a large majority of us agree that one would have made a difference in the Aurora theater. A gun. Even better, several guns.

After this ordeal do you think a victims family would care how it was carried if they knew it might save them or the loved one lost?

[Byte Stryke]

I'm not going there anymore. No guns. Makes it sound to dangerous for me and my family.
And I liked that place. Even though the movies I seen there were crap and I wanted my money back. I thought they were onto something.
I think he was within his rights.
Let me see ", the right to keep and BEAR arms shall not be infringed." I'm no legal scholar like our president but I think if he wanted to open carry all the theater could do was ask him to leave and the police could do nothing but comply with what the scared little bitches in the theater wanted. Giving him a ticket is like asking Rosa Parks to get to the back of the bus or be arrested. IMHO.

She was another one that was just out to cause trouble...
She should have been considerate of others and just gotten in the back!
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[Whistler]

She was another one that was just out to cause trouble...
She should have been considerate of others and just gotten in the back!
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Ha! Think of all those poor people that were inconvenienced while she "made her point" damned inconsiderate and insensitive I say.

[dwalker460]

Just wondering if that theatre is one of several who prohibit carrying and have a sign up.

Either way the theatre manager is a complete ass if he just called the cops.

[Scanker19]

I want to see what his shirt says.

Welcome to the new America. A man at kent state was just arrested for inciting a panic. Sounds like some more charges need to be passed around.

[RCCrawler]

1. Obviously this man sucks at carrying concealed.

2. The fact that Thornton has something on the books to charge him with "possession of a dangerous weapon in a liquor and beer establishment" leads me to believe that maybe they do have something on the books against it.