Posted on 08/07/2013 9:07:17 AM PDT by MissTed
An apartment complex in Colorado has news for tenants: get rid of your guns, or get out. Colorado Apartment Building Tells Tenants They Have to Get Rid of Their Guns or Leave
Art Dorsch said he’ll either have to give up his guns or move out of his apartment. (Image source: KUSA-TV)
The Oakwood Apartments in Castle Rock, Colo. sent notice to residents last week of a new provision banning all “firearms and weapons” from the premises, KUSA-TV reported. Tenants have until Oct. 1 to comply.
Art Dorsch, a 77-year-old retired Marine Corps veteran, told KUSA he’s afraid he’ll lose his home if he doesn’t go along with the new rule. He’s a hunter and has a concealed carry permit.
Dorsch, who’s living on a fixed income, said managers told him he has three options: get rid of his guns and stay, keep his guns and move out voluntarily, or keep his guns and be forced out.
“It upsets me very much,” Dorsch told the station.
He said he keeps his guns secured in a safe and that having them makes him feel secure in his home.
“They want to take them all away from me, they say I can’t live here,” he said. Colorado Apartment Building Tells Tenants They Have to Get Rid of Their Guns or Leave
The Oakwood Apartments in Colorado sent notice to residents last week. (Image source: KUSA-TV)
KUSA legal analyst Scott Robinson said courts have generally supported landlords’ rights to impose “reasonable regulations” on their tenants.
“The question is: is an outright ban of firearms reasonable in light of the U.S. Constitution?” Robinson told KUSA.
The Ross Management Group, which manages the Oakwood Apartments, declined to comment to KUSA. Castle Rock is just south of Denver.
As the debate over gun control raged through the country, Colorado this year passed controversial new legislation limiting ammunition magazines and imposing universal background checks on all gun buyers.
July 20 marked the one-year anniversary since a shooter massacred 12 people and injured 70 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Who will pretend they don't have guns.
The landlord is counting on poor tenants who can not afford lawyers. He has forgotten he has to pay the plaintiff’s lawyers in these cases even if he wins in the end.
I agree. This attempt is the same assault on the constitution that a restriction against possessing a bible in one’s apartment would be.
If the management company doesn’t drop this immediately they’re gonna find a world of legal hurt.
Sue.
I can’t think of a quicker way to turn their precious apartment complex into a slum. Might as well just tell the criminal elemnt, “easy pickings here.”
Exactly. You should never have to check your constitutional rights at the door.
Yes, I know, crowded theaters withstanding...
If he goes, violent criminals with illegal guns will move in. Is that what they want?
Sorry, but Colorado only ranks slightly higher than commiefornia on my “This concerns me” list. Both states are just above Zimbabwe.
Exactly ... no different than many of the stories out there about HOA’s banning the flying of a flag.
this is the interior of an appartment. Home is castle even if it is an apartment.
Remember these are fundamental rights being taken away. Does the landlord have the right to say no to certain religions?
Sure it can. The only issue is access to the lists. Many/most state laws (wisely) forbid public access to CCW permit lists and applications.
As the USSC stands now, a private bedroom activity can not be prohibited by a landlord.
Maybe, maybe not - depending on the activity. But it has nothing to do with the U.S. Supreme Court.
A landlord can not discriminate based on religious belief or matters of conscious.
That depends. Because of existing state and federal laws they cannot, for instance, refuse to rent to someone simply because they are Jewish. But they can refuse all kinds of things that are or might be considered religious practices (conducting services, posting signs, burning incense, etc) in the apartment.
“Attention all you street gangbangers - this complex is now gun free. Have a nice day”
When you rent from ME, you have to be prepared to quarter and feed military troops.
Dear Mr. Apartment Owner:
You can no more deprive me of my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms than you can deny me the right to free speech, habeus corpus, or equal protection under the law. The Constitution doesn’t become null at the gate to this complex.
If you want to try to evict me, be prepared for a lengthy legal battle. And if I lose that, be prepared for a battle of another kind.
Go pound sand.
— Your Tenant
Let the apartment complex implement this no gun policy and the word will quickly get out that this is a great place to rob and rape.
fundamental right is the issue.
Cities and landlords were given carte blanch to do as they pleased because the black robe inteligencia pushed the myth of priviledge not fundamental right. We now have a fundamental right.
Can a landlord only rent to democrats? republicans? Can he prohibit NRA membership? Mandate membership in greepeas? (last mispelling intentional)
Sorry no.
They can tell new tennents that they may not have guns but those who are currently in residence are under the terms of what ever lease they signed before the managers went crazy.
But it is the second part of the statement which will really give them trouble, “firearms and weapons”. Weapons? Really? Do these dorks have any idea how broad a term that is?
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer are they.
no a landlord is renting out a “castle” and a person has a right to be secure and quiet enjoyment INSIDE the castle. An appartment is regulated by state and local laws.
This is not a raw unregulated contract.
Event to just enter and do regular maintainance a landlord is required to give notice.
Oakwood is an Assisted Living Facility. They accept government money to subsidize the rent. Unfortunately, the “no weapons” clause is ALWAYS in HUD contracts with property owners. The property owners/property management companies MUST state “no weapons allowed” in order to collect the federal dollars. If you dance with the devil, you have to pay the piper.
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