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- Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
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Re: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
I wasn't trying to prove anything. I was simply correcting what I thought at the time was erroneous information. I see now that I misread that part of your post and I apologize for that.
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:14 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
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Re: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
The Houston Hyatt is posted with both 30.06 and 30.07.rotor wrote: They guy brought firearms into a hotel that had a no firearm policy.
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:08 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
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Re: New Year's eve arrest at Houston Hyatt
This raises a hypothetical legal and logistics question.srothstein wrote:I think we may need to pay very close attention to this case. It may have a side effect we do not like.
The man had rented a room from the hotel and was asked to leave. The police arrested him and did charge him with criminal trespass for refusing to leave. Think about this for a minute.
Several times, we have stated in this forum that a hotel room is like an extension of your residence. You have control of it and can carry guns in there despite a 30.06 sign properly posted on the hotel doors. If the hotel room is an extension of your home (or the equivalent thereof) then this is a true statement.
But if I am asked to leave my own home or residence, I cannot be charged with criminal trespass for declining to leave. To get me out of my home against my will takes an eviction order from a court. This is true if I own the home and failed to pay a mortgage or tax on it, and it is true if I rent an apartment and break the lease in some way (such as having a loud party or not paying my rent).
The suspect in this case was charged with criminal trespass. I could be worried about things for no reason, having missed something somewhere. But I think this case needs to be watched very carefully to make sure we do not lose out on something by a poor decision.
Say I have a couple of handguns locked up in cases in my room from a competition, etc. I have had several drinks at the hotel bar and am legally intoxicated. I perhaps get a little loud at the hotel bar, maybe get into a minor verbal altercation with somebody and a manager tells me I cannot stay at the hotel any longer.
What would happen in this situation? I can't drive. I'm intoxicated and have to handle concealed handguns to presumably load them into a taxi to find another hotel. Even if I comply completely with the manager, am I more likely to be taken into custody just because I have handguns in my room?
Now before you say "Well you shouldn't be drinking or getting into altercations", I agree! And it's highly unlikely that I would get myself into trouble after having a few. But I am curious.