On August 1, Oakwood Apartments in Castle Rock sent out a letter with new community policies.
As part of the new policies, residents will no longer be allowed to "display, use, or possess any firearms or weapons of any kind, anywhere on the property".
Residents have until October 1 to give notice and vacate their homes or to remove any banned objects from the complex.
If they do not comply, they have been threatened with random searches and forcible evictions.
Some are saying that this is a violation of their 2nd amendment rights, which guarantees the right to own firearms.
Concerns are also that the property's ban on weapons will encourage the complex as a place for robbers to target.
Ross Management Group, which runs the apartments, argues that the decision is legal as they are their private property and therefore can make the rules for it.
They had no comment about the concerns of robbery risk, and ended the conversation when asked if kitchen knives were considered weapons.
By Wednesday evening, the apartments had been ordered to stand down from their gun ban, by Douglas County, which owns the complex.
I don't how this is constitutional or even legal. I can understand telling residents that pets are not allowed as a dog or cat or even gold fish is not a constitutional right. But I would think that evicting or throwing out a legal renter because they own a gun which is covered by the second amendment is as illegal as throwing out a person because of color, race or sex. Also I don't think you can randomly search the premises of a renter they are constitutionally protected from that, legally a walk through inspection must be scheduled and they can only do it once a year i believe.
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