"Only we at NBC, because we do not pay taxes, and
because we lie, lie, lie, can have guns."
Posted on 04/25/2015 7:39:58 AM PDT by pabianice
Last week, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) tweeted a picture of himself and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C) holding an AR-15. Rep. Buck later reported that the photo was taken in his Capitol Hill House office. While a photo of two congressmen posing with the most popular rifle in the United States (and one trigger-locked and without a bolt carrier group at that) shouldn’t raise any rational public safety concerns, it apparently caused enough handwringing for the D.C. Attorney General’s Office that they referred the picture to the Metropolitan Police Department for further investigation.
The AG’s office seemed to have allowed their irrational fear of guns (or maybe of Republican lawmakers) to get a little ahead of their knowledge of the laws they are charged with enforcing. That’s because federal law, not D.C. law, controls on Capitol grounds, and the federal rules pertaining to firearms possession by members of Congress are perfectly clear. Federal law generally provides that “[a]n individual or group of individuals . . . except as authorized by regulations prescribed by the Capitol Police Board . . . may not carry on or have readily accessible to any individual on the Grounds or in any of the Capitol Buildings a firearm . . . .” However, there is an exemption that applies to “any act performed in the lawful discharge of official duties by . . . a Member of Congress . . . . “The Capitol Police Board regulations implementing this statute state, “[A]ny member of Congress” is eligible under the regulation to “maintain[] firearms within the confines of his [or her] office,” as well as to “transport[] within the Capitol grounds firearms unloaded and securely wrapped.” So, Rep. Buck and Rep. Gowdy were acting squarely within the applicable law when the photo was taken.
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Love that circular beltway ... Makes it easier to surround ‘em!
"Only we at NBC, because we do not pay taxes, and
because we lie, lie, lie, can have guns."
yes but (wearing my TV lawyer hat) how did the rifle get to the congressman’s office without passing through DC?
Well, that mag is dangerous ‘cause it’s make of metal and has sharp corners.
The AG CLEARLY has nothing to fear from republican lawmakers.
yep ... is great ‘the People’ are not republican lawmakers
I see what you did there.
‘****cause it’s make of metal and has sharp corners.***
I read a review of a firearm about 28 years ago in GUN TESTS magazine in which the firearm failed, but the writer said you could pull out the magazine and slice your opponent to death with it.
LOL no demonRATs watching ...
Holding that clip on Meet the dePressed would be deemed perfectly legal. The dePress, an arm of the ‘Rat party, and the ‘Rat party an arm of government, by the law of transitivity, that was official government duties by the government. Just because it is propaganda, does not make it not part of the official statements coming from government, aka ‘Rat party, aka dePress.
Imagine the panic if half the people who owned ARs showed up in DC with them.
Came down on a skyhook.
Sheet metal stampings can have a very sharp and effective edge burr.
reminds one of rebuilt deck housing with two 38” blades underneath for effect.
Identifying a magazine as a “clip” is the common error made by the no-nothings in the MSM who identify every firearm as either a Glock or a machinegun.
That looks like one of the many guns I lost in a boating accident.
Oldplayer
may it rest in peace..
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