Man arrested carrying weapons at Pelosi hotel

The Rocky Mountain News Online ^ | August 24, 2008 | Associated Press

[The Shrew]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefly evacuated from her downtown Denver hotel on Saturday when a man carrying two hunting rifles and two pistols tried to check in to the hotel.

[The Shrew]

Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said 29-year-old Joseph Calanchini of Pinedale, Wyo., faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon after police officers at the Sheraton hotel noticed him carrying a rifle-type case while checking in.

[Need4Truth]

So how the heck are you supposed to take your hunting rifle out to get it worked on if you can’t carry it?

[ColdSteelTalon]

Since when is having rifles in your hotel room illegal? I have at least a handgun whenever I am in my hotel.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"The speaker was never in any danger and she appreciates the quick and professional response of the police," said Daly.

Thank God! Who would have saved the planet?!

[Eagles6]

"Authorities said Calanchini was in town on business and had had the weapons worked upon, including mounting of site scopes, to prepare for an upcoming hunting trip."

[ColdSteelTalon]

Since when is having rifles in your hotel room illegal? I have at least a handgun whenever I am in a hotel room.

[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, the horror! The horror!

God forbid people still hunt in Colorado, and actually try to claim their reservations at hotels where Washington pooh-bahs are staying!!

THE HORROR!

[NautiNurse]

Now everyone knows which hotel Pelosi is staying in—the Sheraton.

[marktwain]

“Authorities said Calanchini was in town on business and had had the weapons worked upon, including mounting of site scopes, to prepare for an upcoming hunting trip.”

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These officers should be sued for violation of civil rights. There was never any threat, and it is perfectly legal to carry firearms in cases to your hotel room. Colorado is even an open carry state. I guess they are saying that rifles or pistols in a case are “concealed”. Total B.S.

Where the h*ll are these charges coming from? Politics only. Some animals are more equal than others.

[nobama08]

If they arrested the guy, why did they evacuate the hotel? Sounds like a wrong place, wrong time situation.

[sam_paine]

Authorities said Calanchini was in town on business and had had the weapons worked upon, including mounting of site scopes, to prepare for an upcoming hunting trip.

Honest citizens are made into criminals. Meanwhile, true criminals have all the rights.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sounds like a wrong place, wrong time situation.

No, he was completely within his rights.

Official oppression, oppression under color of authority. Arrest them all -- cops, hotelier, and Pelosi. Take the piano player.

[Slings and Arrows]

I hope that the taxpayers of Colorado end up making a very lucrative apology to this man.

[kbennkc]

If there is no more to this story , this gun owner is a lucky man . I doubt a cased rifle would be considered a concealed weapon anywhere in the great state of Colorado. A Thompson in a violin case , maybe , a scoped rifle in a rifle case , no way

[OCC]

Was it John "Can I Get Me a Hunting License Here?" Kerry checking in?

[LooneyTick]

But, But, But, But, Nanny State Nancy was there.
Sue them and then sue them again.
When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

[Fighter@heart]

Just a “small taste” of things to come under the Obama Bin Biden regime. Oh yeah, TAXES plenty of NEW, Old & Raised taxes for everyone. The demoRATS taking care of absolutely no-one except themselves & their corrupt cronies.

[Libloather]

Hunting RATS?

[Fresh Wind]

Didn’t you read the fine print in the Constitution? The 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply in Colorado.

[nobama08]

I agree he was within his rights. He was only arrested because her highness Nine-percent Nancy was there.

[Kirkwood]

He was there to hunt prairie dogs?

[television is just wrong]

was it actually a direct threat to her, or is she actually that afraid of the job she has done in congress that if anyone comes near her she needs to run and hide?

[XeniaSt]

Didn’t you read the fine print in the Constitution? The 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply in Colorado.

No Just Denver.

[mainestategop]

I think that this man should sue under Heller V DC. Make the Dems pay and let people in Colorado carry guns.

[freekitty]

Right. People like Pelosi.

[Joe Boucher]

A very wise program,
if I do say so myself.

[Joe Boucher]

Subtle, but very funny.
Good job

[antiunion person]

When staying in the near presence of Nazi Pelosi and her destructive habits to our country, a guy has to protect himself. The last I knew, the is NO law stating you can't bring a rifle into your hotel room to protect it from being stolen.

[When do we get liberated?]

I know the feeling.....I was picked up by the cops one time for a similar situation. I had lost my liscence and needed to get my compound bow worked on across town. Since I was not driving I thought nothing of leaving the house without my liscence, just some cash. I walked 2-3 miles to the store and as I walked back I was surrounded by cruisers in front of a day care center! Some nut called in that he was going to kill the kids there. As the cops pulled up I was walking towards the day care with my bow, several arrows and new broadheads...

[LRS]

"The speaker was never in any danger and she appreciates the quick and professional response of the police," said Daly.

She should have offered everyone involved, including Calanchini, an autographed copy of her book (S/)...

[marktwain]

“I agree he was within his rights. He was only arrested because her highness Nine-percent Nancy was there.”

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And, if what I suspect is true, he and the general public did not even *know* she was there, so he could not have avoided her if he wanted to.

[meandog]

Hunting rifles? Whew! The SS really has something then; because when the headline read Man Carrying "Weapons" at Pelosi Hotel he could have been toting knives--BECAUSE HE IS A PLASTIC SURGEON AND HER DROOPING FACE IS IN BAD NEED OF A TOUCH UP....

[marktwain]

“Didn’t you read the fine print in the Constitution? The 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply in Colorado.”

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Certainly the City Government in Denver believes that it does not apply to *Them*.

[B Knotts]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefly evacuated from her downtown Denver hotel on Saturday

Why does Nancy Pelosi own a hotel in Denver?

[lentulusgracchus]

The last I knew, the is NO law stating you can't bring a rifle into your hotel room to protect it from being stolen.

Back in the day, about 1975, I checked into the Howard Johnson's Hotel in downtown New Orleans with a cased rifle in my baggage -- a turnbolt Mossberg in .308. (Sold it years ago.)

The desk and bellboy staff looked at me funny, and later on I remembered that the HoJo had been the site, several months earlier, of an infamous gun battle with a rooftop sniper who got onto the roof of the hotel with a Ruger semiauto carbine in .44 Magnum and started shooting people. But nobody said anything to me, and I went about my business, taking my new job and looking for permanent quarters.

[Joan Kerrey]

While I support the gent and see no problem with his transporting rifles and keeping them in his hotel room, his choice of dates to do this wasn’t too smart.

[Ole Okie]

She should have offered everyone involved, including Calanchini, an autographed copy of her book (S/)...

Yeah, "Save the Planet" Pellegra Pelosi owes Calanchini at least a drink

[umgud]

Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said 29-year-old Joseph Calanchini of Pinedale, Wyo., faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon after police officers at the Sheraton hotel noticed him carrying a rifle-type case while checking in.

Generally, there is a Penal Code citation upon which an arrest is made. What charges do they book him on if no law has been violated?

[Mojave]

Pelosi was in no danger. Now if he han been carrying rat traps...

[ThreePuttinDude]

I can just hear the future Christmas stories at Nasty Pelosi's house with the grand kids.

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"As I was preparing for a restful day, this mean and dangerous monster with a
scope on his rifle tried to brake into the hotel I was staying. Thank goodness
the local law enforcement officers were there to finally stop this monster.
He shouldn't have been allowed to get that close to your grandmother in the first place."

[marktwain]

“Thank goodness
the local law enforcement officers were there to finally stop this monster.
He shouldn’t have been allowed to get that close to your grandmother in the first place.”

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I would have said: “No ordinary peasant should have been allowed to possess weapons of the upper class at all.”

[politicalwit]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefly evacuated from her downtown Denver hotel

Would that be the Nine Percent Inn where all rooms are located on the left side of the hallways??

[marktwain]

It appears that Joe was in the Marine Corps, (left as a corporal), and is a stable, married man with a decent job. He is originally from Bakersfield, California.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=6704252

[brushcop]

My G-d, the ignorance, hysteria and just plain stupidity over FIREARMS has really reached saturation point in this country. Colorado no less. There’s huntin’ (Kerry talk) in Colorado last time I checked. There are even gun shops, huntin’ license sales, all sorts of weird stuff. You can kill game animals and some non-game animals in Colorado, you can skin ‘em, process ‘em and EAT ‘em, well, you might cook ‘em first.

I guess I’ll take my WEAPON out and hunt a rabbit or two...but then again, I live in a “compound” here in Texas ‘cause I have some Bibles alongside my guns too.

[mkcc30]

“.......‘cause I have some Bibles alongside my guns too.”

Hallelujah and pass the ammunition! Amen to that!

[Truth is a Weapon]

So a white guy with 4 guns is targeted for arrest. Sounds like a case of racial, political, intellectual and NRA profiling to me. He should contact the ACLU.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Grand Hyatt

[Turret Gunner A20]

She should have offered everyone involved, including Calanchini, an autographed copy of her book (S/)...

He'd probably rather stay in jail.

[JillValentine]

He doesn’t watch the news and had no idea the DNC was in town.