Posted on 12/31/2017 6:35:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
HOUSTON - A man has been arrested on multiple charges after police located a small arsenal of guns on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency on Louisiana Street downtown, Houston police said.
Police at the hotel called for backup around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after they attempted to arrest the man for being intoxicated and trespassing. When help arrived, police noticed ammunition laying around the man's hotel room, Lt. Gordon Macintosh with Houston police said.
The man was arrested for unlawfully carrying a weapon and trespassing. When investigators looked into his room further, they located an AR-15, a shotgun, a handgun and lots of ammunition, Macintosh said.
The Hyatt is preparing its own New Years Eve celebration at the hotel with a 50,000 balloon drop at the stroke of midnight, its website said.
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So he had the firearms needed for a three-gun competition. Was he threatening anyone? but again, drink stupid fluid, win stupid prizes....
One reason my firearms are never carried in public in traditional looking “gun cases”.
And another reason why I drink no stupid fluid....
And another reason why I don’t venture into places like that.
At home, too? You'd be making lots of problems with such a law.
That's a small arsenal? I weep for our country's future.
If that’s an arsenal, I can’t imagine how they would describe one of my gun safes.
Just guessing:
He was asked to leave the hotel (trespassing)
Is there some law in Texas that makes it illegal for one to possess a gun while under the influence? Which, being Texas, I would find hard to believe, but one never knows.
No description of the man? Possibly a mentally ill US citizen from one of those 57 islamic states or a new conveert?
It sounds like the guy was in Vegas for a 3-gun shoot competition, rifle, pistol and shotgun. Participants bring their own guns and ammo. The guy got drunk-big deal.
“he didn’t want to leave them in his vehicle overnight”
If I am in a high crime area, there is less chance of getting valuables stolen in my hotel room with me than locked in my vehicle.
True.
In DC at a Free Republic event, there were a bunch of us in our hotel’s bar about 10 pm.
The bartender announced it was closing time and we asked him to stay open a bit longer. He said no.
Someone handed me a Benjamin and said to order Tequila shots.
I gave it to the barkeep and told him to keep the shots coming until the money was used up, and to take a nice tip for himself.
We stayed as long as we wanted. He and the hotel made a lot of money that night.
And I suppose your range allows drunks to come in and shoot too. Fortunately the cops were smarter than some of the idiots around here.
My guess is it is illegal to carry guns while drunk or stoned.
Good thing FBI didn’t get there first. So much stinks about the Las Vegas massacre, and multiple shooters is a real scenario, imho.
Maybe they did, this time.
I’m of the belief that the Vegas Shooter was an FBI sting operation that got out of control.
An FBI effort to develop a scenario where by a White Man, Gun nut, could be painted as a Domestic Terrorist.
One should lock them in a gun safe if one is going to get tanked at home. More so if one is going to drop acid.
A law like that would really cut down on the number of hunters.
Unlicensed carry in a bar is illegal in Texas, but that would suggest that he 1) didn't have a CCP, and 2) there was one on him rather than in his room. Neither of which is mentioned.
Because getting drunk makes it impossible to get in your safe.
Besides, suppose — like me — you don’t have one?
There was a gun show downtown concurrently so he might have just bought one or two of them? Probably stored in his room along with the ammunition. Proceeded to get drunk in the hotel bar and was being belligerent when the mounties were called to escort him out. He became combative and was arrested for his trouble. As mentioned by another poster, the trespass was a milder form of drunk and disorderly, and much kinder than assaulting an officer. They went to his room for personal effects when they discovered he was a guest there and discovered the guns.
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