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]

[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.

[SuperiorDG]

I want to see what his shirt says.

I heard on the radio that it says something like Liberalism equals Terrorism.

[SuperiorDG]

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.

Thornton can't have a law on the books that is contrary to state law. Thornton is this case is wrong and totally messed this one up. I guess all the supervisors had the night off.

[Storm]

I'm going to assume this guy was carrying concealed and not carrying openly as they mention a permit in the articles. If he was carrying openly (particularly after last week), he's a freakin DUMB-ASS!

So a couple points on this.

1) This should be a cautionary tale on those of us that have a CHP and choose to carry into a marked and prohibited establishment. The point is this, as permit holders we know the law (at worst it's a trespassing charge, if you get caught carrying and refuse to leave), but the employees and mangers of said establishment may not know the law and automatically call the police. If you're going to do it, make damn sure it's concealed.

2) If he was arrested under some city ordinance in Thornton, he may have grounds for suing the city, under the state's firearms supremacy clause and possibly the theater as well.

ETA: I just re-read the DP article and it says he open-carried, so he's a dumb-ass. None the less, my two points still stand.

[Whistler]

Says he was carrying "openly" and I thought Thornton had a restriction against that?