http://csp.state.co.us/downloads/safety_firearmsbrochure.pdf
This is a link to a CO carry guide (pdf). Apparently carrying handguns in this fasion is considered concealed and would require a permit.
We have similar laws in CA, but can lock them in a case or lock them in luggage and be legal (or carry them unloaded and unconcealed). I suspect CO has similar language, but I couldn’t find it.
In reading your referenced website I would say he’ll get off. He was transporting weapons to his hotel room which is permitted so long as they are not readily accessible. They’ll probably hold him until they get a refusal from the DA tomorrow. (my guess)
The Denver SWAT would have just taken him out if he had carried them into her highnesses hotel unconcealed. Imagine the panic if all the liberals had seen an actual gun! Oh the horror!
That pdf is *way* out of date. I don't know where you got it, but Colorado has honored a large number of other states permits for several years. I suspect the pdf is at least from 2004, if not before.
Colorado law allows a person to possess a handgun in a dwelling, place of business, or automobile. However, you cannot carry the weapon concealed on or about your person while transporting it into your home, business, or hotel room, etc.
I guess it depends on what is meant by "about your person". Does that mean in a carried bag? Does that mean he has to enter the hotel with the guns drawn and in this case risk being shot by security detail? What does he do if he has more than two pistols with him? Leave them sitting in plain view in an unattended car while he makes multiple trips?