"This has gotten us five times as many sting attempts because the police treat us as five different bars," he said. " ... DOR, however, treats us as one license holder, putting us in a perilous position as far as the stings and their consequences go."

What Henry calls "stings," the Missoula Police Department terms its Strategic Alcohol Plan.

For the last three years, the police have used grant money from the Montana Board of Crime Control and the Missoula DUI Task Force to run intermittent "compliance checks" to make sure bars aren't serving minors.

A bar that racks up four citations can lose its liquor license.

"Compliance checks are a great example of our local law enforcement utilizing tools available to them to help reduce the incidents and possible negative consequences of underage drinking," said Brandee Tyree, coordinator for the Missoula Underage Substance Abuse Prevention Team. "The action that they have taken to identify a noncompliant business may have saved lives."

Henry said that all bartenders who work in the Badlander complex must attend server training, and that there's a zero-tolerance policy for anyone caught serving a minor.