It's been several years ago now, but once I was working for a large masonry contractor that had several projects and crews at several projects all going on at the same time. I knew that we had a big job at the Wyoming prison, but I wasn't there, I was working on a different job by Guernsey. I heard about it when it happened, when one of my coworkers had his vehicle searched on the prison grounds and they found a handgun, and now he was a prisoner. That wasn't very smart, I'm sure we would all agree. I hadn't met this guy yet when all this chit hit the fan, but I got to know him well several months later when he came to work in Guernsey. He was a good guy, and a very good bricklayer. His version, which I believe is that even though they were on prison property, they were nowhere near the prison -- you could see the prison, but it was a couple of miles away--no prisoners were ever anywhere near the jobsite. He drove a very nice Vette up from Colorado every week, and he said there was no way he would ever drive around the greater Denver area, especially in that car, unarmed. He also said that his hotel had a room safe and he kept his pistol there 3 days of the week (we worked 4 10s) and only on the last day of the week, when he checked out of the room, did he ever bring his gun to work, and he didn't do that even for the first six months of the job, and he had seen that nobody was ever getting searched, just waved through the gate towards the jobsite when they signaled that direction. He said also, that as far as he knew, he was the only person ever to have been searched on the job of any of the trades. He wasn't searched at the gate either, he was searched at the end of the day in the parking lot. He also claims to have never told a soul about the gun under his seat or had anyone else there ever seen it. Something doesn't add up? Were they profiling him because of his Colorado CCW? I don't know, but he did in a way get lucky, he got six months in county and a $5000 fine, no felonies -- it could of been many times worse, 10-20 IIRC. The company really didn't care if we carried in our cars or not, till now, just when we were going to be on prison grounds or military bases, schools, etc. then, you were to be immediately fired and escorted off the grounds. I can't say I blame them either, this was a multimillion dollar contract.

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