Drunk in public and packing heat

[DaveM55]

First the guy in Tennesee now this idiot.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=59166

Sure, open-carry advocates, you can flash guns in public all you want. Just don't be drunk when you do it.

A 29-year-old man who is well-known to the local cops for his imbibing found that out the hard way in San Bruno.

Christian George Gonzalez was allegedly plastered when he ambled up to two uniformed San Bruno police officers just after midnight Feb. 12 at a 7-Eleven parking lot, said Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County's chief deputy district attorney.

He approached Officer Jack Boland and asked, "Jack, want to check me?" Wagstaffe said. Boland and Gonzalez have "known each other for many years," the prosecutor said, because of Gonzalez's predilection for alcohol.

Gonzalez had a holstered .40-caliber handgun in plain view on his belt, Wagstaffe said. The officers confirmed that the gun wasn't loaded but that Gonzalez quite visibly was, because he "stumbled backwards and fell into the patrol car," the prosecutor said. Gonzalez was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public and was arraigned on the charge Monday.

Two weeks before the Feb. 12 incident, Gonzalez had walked into the same 7-Eleven with a gun on his hip and told the clerk that he could carry the weapon as long as he kept it unloaded, authorities said. Seems Gonzalez is in sympathy with an ad hoc movement seeking to increase awareness of gun rights by visibly holstering weapons in public.

Gonzalez is right on target as far as his gun rights are concerned, Wagstaffe said. "He knows the open-carry law," the prosecutor said. "But he was drunk."

[gnbrotz]

Misleading headline (big surprise).

"Drunk in public" is illegal there whether armed or unarmed. The gun made no difference to the charges. Just more misplaced hype.

[TheFue]

I love how in a case like that its still "suspicion of"

[Kurt_D]

Typical jerk media people - turn it into a gun issue when it's a D & D charge. The "allegedly" or "suspicion of" statements are because we must be PC y'know.

[jahwarrior72]

notice how he was only charged for being drunk? i guess the police in CA follow the law, at least. they're not at fault, the cock juggling reporter who wrote the piece is.

[XD40coyote]

If the guy is a habitual drunkard, then he can't even buy a gun, so what allows him to possess it? I hope the cops can charge him for that too. What a dumbass.

[gnbrotz]

If the guy is a habitual drunkard, then he can't even buy a gun, so what allows him to possess it?

Citation of law?

"Habitual drunkard" is a disqualifier for a PA LTCF, but this story is from CA, and I'm not aware of any federal disqualifiers that are that subjective.

[P-11 shooter]

Citation of law?

"Habitual drunkard" is a disqualifier for a PA LTCF, but this story is from CA, and I'm not aware of any federal disqualifiers that are that subjective.

it's on the form to purchase firearms too. They lump it in with "illegal drugs" so if you check yes because of that joint you smoked in college you're screwed too.

[gnbrotz]

it's on the form to purchase firearms too. They lump it in with "illegal drugs" so if you check yes because of that joint you smoked in college you're screwed too.

White form or yellow form?

[fingers80002]

White form or yellow form?

Depends on what color the BATF decides it is for the quarter.....