OT Guest at Houston hotel caught with AR-15, ammo in his room above NYE celebration

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    A drunk man staying at a Houston hotel had an arsenal of weapons including an AR-15 inside his 28th-floor room above a major New Year’s Eve bash, cops said.

    The man, whose identity hasn’t been released, also had a handgun, a shotgun and troves of ammunition, cops told local media.

    Security at the Hyatt Regency Downtown called the police sometime after 1:30 a.m. Sunday when a guest at the hotel bar became increasingly drunk, the Houston Chronicle reported.

    They had initially tried to have the man go back to his room, the newspaper reported. He started to fight back, however, prompting officials to call the cops.

    Houston police and security went to his room to collect his belongings, where they found ammunition all over the room, local NBC affiliate KPRC reported.

    They looked around further and found the firearms, police Lt. Gordon Macintosh told KPRC.

    The discovery harkens back to the grisly Las Vegas shooting nearly three months ago, when gunman Stephen Paddock smuggled more than a dozen weapons into a hotel room overlooking a country music festival and fired on the crowd, killing 58 and injuring hundreds more.

    He was booked with trespassing and unlawfully carrying a weapon.

    Authorities are waiting for him to sober up before they can interview him, Macintosh added.

    The suspect’s Chevrolet Silverado was also reportedly towed and inspected.

    The Hyatt has a sprawling New Year’s Eve party planned for midnight Sunday, according to its website. The bash is supposed to span four floors and will ring in the New Year by dropping 50,000 balloons.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...otel-caught-ar-15-ammo-room-article-1.3729370
     
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    Alcohol saves lives! That's the thread title I'd have chosen!
     
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    We really need assisted suicide for physically healthy people who can't cope with life. Just letting them end it without judgement might keep them from taking people with them.

    Like people dropping babies off at the fire department.
     
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    I wonder if he was planning something terrible, or just a drunk guy with a bunch of guns? I know when I stay in any city, any valubles of mine whether it be guns, electronics or otherwise would be out of the car and in the hotel room. Pretty standard for most people I think. Although guns and ammunition aren't common in most people's travels I'll admit. Probably needs some more investigating before we clam a mass shooting has been thwarted.
     
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    Glad they found this dude and looking forward to hearing what he was up to, but a couple of points:

    1) Three weapons (a pistol, shotgun and rifle, if reported correctly) is not an "arsenal". I personally know multiple people who carry more than that in their vehicle at almost all times.
    2) The pistol and shotgun couldn't have been meant for the people below. Now, those may have been his "personal" weapons in case someone found him doing a dastardly deed, but if I have an AR-15 in my hand and the cops blow down my door, I'm not dropping it to pick up the shotgun next to me. :dunno:
    3) They didn't mention it in the story, and I don't know TX gun laws, but what was he doing that was "unlawfully carrying" a weapon? Sure, arrest a dude for being belligerent and drunk and fighting security. Unless he was carrying (illegally/unlicensed) while at the bar? But the story made him sound like he was just a drunk who was being escorted up to his room when security found the "Troves of Ammo" all over.

    New York Daily News.
     
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    Yep, more fake news from the liberal media. They are getting ridiculous.
     
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    https://houston.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/our-hotel/firearms-policy.html
     
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    Well! I sure don't know what the guy was intending but...

    Trespass is a rather low level crime. I don't think Hyatt's Policy being violated makes the crime anymore that tresspass, certainly not criminal trespass until they ask him to leave and he does not. Perhaps that happened, can't tell. Escorting him back to his room is not asking him to leave is it?

    Or is there more unsaid here? Who assumed the authority to tow is vehicle? On what grounds? I can't see more than a misdemeanor by this fellow from what I can read.

    "troves of ammunition"?
    "where they found ammunition all over the room"?

    Sensational? Yes, descriptive? No.
     
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    Man found with a "small arsenal" which was an AR15, shotgun and a pistol. There was a 3 Gun Competition in Houston this weekend.

    3 Gun Comp. utilizes, wait for it.... an AR, a shotgun and a pistol plus ammo. Probably not a coincidence but it makes for great click bait.

    https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/guns/2015/06/the-beginners-guide-to-3-gun-competition
     
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    Luckily for him, the police only shoot unarmed people.
     
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    News said he was in unlawful possession of firearms.....I doubt that would be the case for someone in a gun competition..or he's an idiot...
     
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    News says a lot of things. He is an idiot though.
     
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    He is an idiot but that was fake news.
     
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    I agree. I usually travel with my .40. I could see a hunting trip where id have a rifle but cant think of an instance where id have multiple and hoards of ammo.
     
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    Tx gun laws it is a felony to carry where alcohol is the major source of income licensed or not. If it is not the major source of income i believe a felony for unlicensed and misdemeanor fo licensed. Other than that if it's not posted i believe it's a misdemeanor unlicensed. I thought this was ny though. If it's ny i believe it's illegal to even say gun.
     
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    I wonder if people that are angry drunks have mental disorders. I always get happy when drunk. I never understood why you'd keep drinking if it made you mad.
     
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    the media has always been ridiculous but you're wrong to limit it to liberals....plenty of it from both sides ...always has been...Nixon faked news all the time...I saw it first hand and watched lots of news get chopped up and reissued under Nixon.....GI kills 5 GIs for some drug deal and they'll probably come home as war casualties with purple hearts and combat action ribbons....they have always tainted the news.....J Edgar Hoover wrote the book on cover ups...it's time for folks to stop putting fake info in some political bubble and see that news is in it for the money....not the accuracy..so has the govt been throughout history...you just have to filter it with your own sensebilities and find interpretations you can trust
     
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    I hope the cops beat the shit out of him and took his money
     
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    FWIW, The Second Amendment overrules any and all laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, HOA's... that infringe in any way, shape or form on the right to carry weapons of any kind, including on privately held property that is primarily a business serving the general public.

    In this case, the hotel refusing to accommodate people who are carrying is no different than a bakery refusing to make a cake for gays. Both customers are quite clearly being discriminated against despite rock-solid Constitutional protections.
     
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