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SENATE STAFFER BUSTED FOR CARRYING WEBB'S LOADED GUN (Developing-Drudge)
Drudge ^ | 3/26/2007 | Drudge

Posted on 03/26/2007 12:34:48 PM PDT by Uncledave

Edited on 03/26/2007 1:31:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.

Statement by Jessica Smith, Webb Communications Director:

"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." Developing...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; jameswebb; ltdan; webb
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To: Uncledave

This guy is a total idiot. Thank you Virginia for electing this nutball.


181 posted on 03/26/2007 3:47:12 PM PDT by pctech
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To: Uncledave
Isn't Webb one of those liberal fellas who knows right/wrong????

Phooey!

182 posted on 03/26/2007 3:55:23 PM PDT by pointsal (q)
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To: Uncledave

I wonder if Webb will be a stand-up guy and accept full responsibility for this like the Corps taught him?


183 posted on 03/26/2007 4:50:16 PM PDT by paddles
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To: Uncledave

Any spin yet from the Webb camp?

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.


184 posted on 03/26/2007 5:29:34 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (?El proletariado del mundo, une! - Xuygo Chavez)
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To: Uncledave

Did web have a cc in DC? I'm hearing no. That web had a permit in VA, but not in DC. Unregistered gun then...I think


185 posted on 03/26/2007 5:35:46 PM PDT by firewalk
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'course, i could almost hear the phones ringin' to remedy that right away...


186 posted on 03/26/2007 5:39:40 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: SittinYonder
Yes to the best of my knowledge. I read this article years ago in a NRA magazine. The reason I was reading this is at that time it pertained to a weapons situation involving California Senator Dianne Feinstein. I believe it is a travesty because once again it sets up a class system of citizens who can and cannot own firearms. I believe that this was the same situation in play when our founders left England and why they wrote the Second Amendment.
187 posted on 03/26/2007 5:40:00 PM PDT by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: paddles

"I wonder if Webb will be a stand-up guy and accept full responsibility for this like the Corps taught him?"

Webb already threw him under the bus...."...was a mistake by the aide....yada yada yada"


188 posted on 03/26/2007 5:40:48 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: paddles; ReagansRaiders; Flora McDonald; iceskater; P8riot
I wonder if Webb will be a stand-up guy and accept full responsibility for this like the Corps taught him?

You've never read anything else about Senator Thinskin, have you?

189 posted on 03/27/2007 3:43:53 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com * http://wardsmythe.com * http://www.rudyblogs.com)
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To: Uncledave

Watch Webb blame it on the staffer! This will be hilarious. Webb is a time-bomb waiting to explode.


190 posted on 03/27/2007 4:07:19 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("Salvation is not free")
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To: BeforeISleep

His staffer only violated two laws: carrying a gun into DC, and carrying a loaded gun into the Capitol. Of course, Webb will claim it was the staffer's unfortunate mistake, even though these are his possessions. Wonder where this report appears on the Washington Post...


191 posted on 03/27/2007 4:09:52 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("Salvation is not free")
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Webb is a time-bomb waiting to explode.

A time-bomb with a gun.

192 posted on 03/27/2007 4:30:37 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Hey Corin,

Check this out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807290/posts

193 posted on 03/27/2007 4:34:45 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot; Corin Stormhands
Fixed it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807290/posts

194 posted on 03/27/2007 4:36:48 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
His staffer only violated two laws: carrying a gun into DC, and carrying a loaded gun into the Capitol.

also unregistered ammo
& carrying the gun itself would be more than one charge
(unregistered gun & lack of a permit to carry in DC, as well as having a concealed firearm I think)
course it probably didn't belong to web
why would web need to carry two additional loaded clips...
195 posted on 03/27/2007 4:37:04 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

check the link at #194


196 posted on 03/27/2007 4:38:48 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Uncledave

Was the staffer holding Webb's loaded gun in the senate cloakroom?


197 posted on 03/27/2007 4:44:37 AM PDT by mborman (No Rudys, please!)
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To: All

I bet he skates.

And yet, if you or I venture into DC with a pistol in the trunk and get pulled over, they will put us under the jail.


198 posted on 03/27/2007 5:49:01 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju, Emeritus)
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To: dfwgator

Well now, there you go, you made me spew cinnamon roll all over my monitor at work


for shame...for shame...8-)


199 posted on 03/27/2007 5:51:58 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju, Emeritus)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

An extensive ad campaign which was waged on the front page and above the fold in the Washington Pos.

The campaign valued in the tens, possibly hundreds of thousands, was FREE of charge to Webb.


200 posted on 03/27/2007 5:59:18 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx)
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