Illegal Arrest Of Concealed Carry Owner Overturned.

Concealed Carry License Holder Gets Last Laugh for Illegal Arrest

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On July 29, 2012, police seized the gun of concealed carry license owner Jim Mapes and took him into custody for about four hours.

Mapes’ alleged “crime”? Open carrying in a local theater just days after the Aurora theater shooting in which James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 59 others.

Mapes has had his CCW license since 2003. He had visited the same theater armed many times before without incident.

Following the arrest, Mapes succeeded in getting the charges dropped. He then filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Thornton, Colorado.

While Thornton refused to admit to any wrongdoing, they recently reached a settlement with Mapes, cutting him a check for $25,000. TeaParty.org reports:

“Coloradans, with the exception of Denver, have had the right to openly carry firearms since 1865,” said Robert Wareham, Mapes’ attorney, who argued the city trampled on those rights.

While attorneys for the city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the matter of Mapes’ arrest, in the words of Wareham, “They got to apologize to him in the form of a nice, healthy check.”

On his Facebook page, Wareham further elaborated that he would have loved to take the case to trial but the cost of litigation against a city “can be huge, particularly in federal court.”

While it’s discouraging to see police arrest innocent civilians for crimes that were not committed, it’s encouraging to see gun owners like Jim Mapes stand up for their 2nd Amendment rights.