Bingo!! I have another question for you all...do the Capitol Hill Police have any idea whatsoever who possesses a gun on their "watch" and in their halls and what security measures have to be taken for just such a thing happening.
I be almost willing to bet that this "gun" took the CHP completely by surprise. Does "registered" in DC mean that the guns have to be registered with CHP or DC Police or both? Tell me that the CHP does not have any idea whose packing within the halls of Congress. Scary. Tell me that the CHP has no idea how many weapons there are, the type of weapons, how they are secured, or anything about the daily disposition of such weapons. What is it...the wild, wild west up there? It is scary to imagine Webb or any other Congressman parading up and down the halls of Congress with a gun that no one knows they have. Am I wrong?
Yikes!!
I'm glad I live in the wild wild wild west where guns are never registered.
Well, if Congress wants those to be the rules for Congress, then they're the rules. I suspect it has a lot to do with Congressmen's sense of their own prerogatives. Also, the floor of Congress was once attacked by terrorists. Congressmen may want to have their own weapons in case somebody gets in and goes nuts in the Capitol.
Anyway, it's their sovereign right to set the rules in Congress, and no law trumps them there, so that's that.