JIM WEBB HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD ON GUNS, and maybe the incident that Drudge is currently reporting will encourage him to get behind the D.C. gun ban repeal:
SENATE STAFFER BUSTED FOR CARRYING WEBB'S LOADED GUN: Phillip Thompson, executive assistant to Senator James Webb (D-VA ), has been arrested by Capitol Hill Police on Monday for 'inadvertently' holding the senator's loaded gun, according to a person close to the investigation. A Senate staffer reports that Thompson was arrested for carrying the gun in a bag through security at the Russell Senate Office building while the Senator was parking his car. Thompson was booked for carrying a pistol without a license (CPWL) and for possessing unregistered ammunition. According to congressional rules, congressmen and senators, not staff, are allowed to have a gun on federal property.
Sounds like a minor incident, but it underscores the silliness of D.C. laws. "Unregistered ammunition?"
