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Webb Aide Arrested For Taking Gun Into Senate Building

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police arrested a top aide to Sen. Jim Webb on Monday after he tried to enter a Senate office building carrying a loaded pistol and two fully loaded magazines.

Phillip Thompson sent a bag through the X-ray machine at Russell Senate Office Building, where Webb's office is located. It detected the weapon and Capitol Police say they determined that Thompson didn't have a license to carry the gun in Washington, D.C. Thompson was arrested and charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possession of an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.

"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the senator’s aide. Phillip Thompson is a former Marine, a long-term friend and trusted employee of the senator. We are still awaiting facts," Webb's Communications Director Jessica Smith said in a statement.

Thompson, a former military reporter based in Virginia, joined the senator's staff after Webb was elected to office in November. He travels frequently with the senator.

Handguns are illegal in Washington, D.C., but nearby Virginia allows residents to carry concealed handguns.

Webb told The Richmond Times Dispatch in December that he considers himself a "strong Second Amendment person" but said he does not carry a gun to work.

"I don't carry personally regularly. I shoot regularly. I like to have the option to carry, which is why I keep the permit," he said. "I value the opportunity to be able to protect myself, depending on situations. But no, I don't walk around with a weapon on me all of the time," he told the newspaper.

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I see so many things wrong with this whole story..."an oversight by the senator’s aide" - No kidding!

"I don't carry personally regularly...I like to have the option to carry...to be able to protect myself, depending on situations." - Wow! He must have ESP.

Edited to add: Why in the world would you let everyone know that you have a concealed license - AND ON TOP OF THAT - that you don't carry regularly?

unregistered ammo? you gotta register yer ammo there? man that resembles a hoover!!

they all play up his position in the military, like just cause he was in the mil, he gets a pass on having a gun on him. THE DUDE WAS A MIL REPORTER!!!!
Clark Kent over here doesn't even remember his heater is in his gymbag...

Hey guys, this is a newly-elected Democrat congressman who is PRO RKBA!
A rare and endangered species, and one we should protect.

Let's go easy on the guy :)

Could make a good (second) test case.

Rex B wrote:Hey guys, this is a newly-elected Democrat congressman who is PRO RKBA!
A rare and endangered species, and one we should protect.

Let's go easy on the guy :)

I'll be interested to see if he votes like he's pro RKBA or follows his herd.

casselthief wrote:THE DUDE WAS A MIL REPORTER!!!!

Sen. Webb is a Marine. He has been awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts from combat in Vietnam.

He ran as a Democrat only because he was running against an incumbent Republican.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote: He ran as a Democrat only because he was running against an incumbent Republican.

- Jim

Ah, so he's a DINO !

Registered ammo?
never heard of it.

Venus Pax wrote:Registered ammo?
never heard of it.

Welcome to DC. Yes, ammo must be registered there.

KBCraig wrote:

Venus Pax wrote:Registered ammo?
never heard of it.

Welcome to DC. Yes, ammo must be registered there.

What do ppl that reload do?

Venus Pax wrote:What do ppl that reload do?

I doubt any serious shooter lives in D.C.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:

casselthief wrote:THE DUDE WAS A MIL REPORTER!!!!

Sen. Webb is a Marine. He has been awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts from combat in Vietnam.

He ran as a Democrat only because he was running against an incumbent Republican.

- Jim

Thompson, a former military reporter based in Virginia,

wasn't talkin' about Webb, I was talkin' about the subject of the arrest, the subject of the news article, and the subject of the thread.
'preciate the info on Webb, though. sounds like he was a B.A. Baracus!!

casselthief wrote:wasn't talkin' about Webb, I was talkin' about the subject of the arrest, the subject of the news article, and the subject of the thread.

Sorry. I misunderstood.

- Jim

KBCraig wrote:

Venus Pax wrote:Registered ammo?
never heard of it.

Welcome to DC. Yes, ammo must be registered there.

Is the ammo serial numbered?

Did Webb transfer the gun to his aide within the city limits of D.C., or did he personally bring it into D.C. at any point?

Will this be swept under the rug the same way a similar incident was when Ted Kennedy's bodyguard was arrested trying to bring illegal (in D.C.) guns into the Russell Senate Office Building a number of years ago?

And, most importantly, If I or any other member of this forum accidentally forgot a gun we were licensed to carry in our luggage, would the same people who want to go easy on Webb's aide also want to go easy on me?

Sen. Webb is a Marine. He has been awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts from combat in Vietnam.

John Kerry has a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and three purple hearts from his Vietnam service, too. Medals don't make a man a good leader, nor should they exempt him from laws I'm expected to follow.

If a law is bad, CHANGE THE LAW . . . don't look the other way or look for excuses to avoid prosecution when it ensnares someone with political connections.

"I don't carry personally regularly. I shoot regularly. I like to have the option to carry, which is why I keep the permit," he said. "I value the opportunity to be able to protect myself, depending on situations. But no, I don't walk around with a weapon on me all of the time," he told the newspaper."

Senator Webb, IIRC, is a former Secretary of the Navy...For what thats worth...

"I value the opportunity to be able to protect myself, depending on situations."