U. S. Senator Says Gun Was His

U. S. Senator Jim Webb, D-Virginia, said he owns the gun that an aide was arrested for carrying into the U.S. Capitol complex in March. "It's my gun," Webb told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in an interview. Webb previously had refused to say whether the gun was his, although his senior aide, Phillip Thompson, had told police the weapon belonged to the Democratic senator. Thompson was arrested on an illegal handgun charge when he carried the loaded pistol and two other loaded magazines in a briefcase into the Russell Senate Office Building. A federal prosecutor later dropped the charge.

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