Aid to Jim Webb arrested for taking loaded weapon into Senate office building

[Crazed Rabbit]

IIRC, Congressmen might be able to carry weapons on federal grounds legally.

I will await further comment on this one to see how it pans out.

Right now, it's just another stupid law -prison for harmlessly carrying a hunk of metal!

CR
Interesting how some dems cry about how DC doesn't have representatives (and, if they get that they will cry about the lack of two democrat shoo-in senators for one city), but hate people having gun rights.

[Lemur]

It's nice to know he's armed and cares about second amendment rights. The idea that he just kinda lost track of a loaded weapon, however, is creepy.

FTA: "Federal law allows members of Congress “or their agents” to transport unloaded and securely wrapped firearms to and from the Capitol grounds."

Securely being the operative word, here.

[Major Robert Dump]

maybe the aide was going to assasinate Ted Kennedy

[doc_bean]

Regardless of how you feel about gun control, allowing people to carry guns into a senate building sounds like a bad idea.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Regardless of how you feel about gun control, allowing people to carry guns into a senate building sounds like a bad idea.

Seems entirely consistent with the arguments to me. After all, that's where the government is...

[English assassin]

Seems entirely consistent with the arguments to me. After all, that's where the government is...

LoL

I really don't understand US gun law. If the senator has a permit for a handgun, what has that got to do with his aide carrying one?

I've got a firearms licence myself but god help me if I ever allowed anyone else to use, or even be in possession of, my rifle? Revocation of the licence would just be the start.

Surely the senator and his aide are both in the merde?

[BDC]

Loaded and uncased weapons are all fun and games (harmless lumps of metal?) until they catch on something and blow your leg off.

[Ronin]

Regardless of how you feel about gun control, allowing people to carry guns into a senate building sounds like a bad idea.

I say they give a gun to everyone in Senate and Congress, lock them in with vast ammounts of alcohol and drugs, and propose they discuss the topic of abortion....

You then transmit whatever transpires on TV.....C-Span might not cut it...for this we need Pay-Per-View...

now that´s MUST SEE TV!

[BDC]

I say they give a gun to everyone in Senate and Congress, lock them in with vast ammounts of alcohol and drugs, and propose they discuss the topic of abortion....

You then transmit whatever transpires on TV.....C-Span might not cut it...for this we need Pay-Per-View...

now that´s MUST SEE TV!

That would be awesome. Give them body armour and morphine too, let the fun last longer.

Maybe you could phone in to vote on who gets given the assault rifle.

[Slyspy]

"My gun? Oh, I loaded it, put it in a paper bag and put it.... Nope, can't remember."

Just the kind of guy you need on your side if you are pro-gun!

I'm just trying to imagine, say, the Italian parliament if they could go in armed!

Edit:

When the article says that the aide is being done for carrying an unregistered firearm and ammo I take it this simply means "not registered to him" rather than actually unregistered?