Stupid gun tricks: Chapter II

Once again we come to you of a story about somebody doing something stupid with a gun.

Not, mind you, that there is anything wrong with owning a gun. It’s just that there seems to be an abundance of people who do, but who couldn’t blow their noses if brains were gunpowder.

For example: Phillip Thompson, aide to Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. The Washington Post reported that Thompson was arrested Monday when he tried to walk into the Russell Senate Office Building carrying a loaded handgun and a couple of spare magazines.

Capitol Police charged him with carrying a handgun without a license, possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.
Thompson, “a former marine, long-term friend and trusted employee of the senator,” committed an “oversight,” according to a statement issued by Jessica Smith, spokeswoman for the senator.

What was the oversight? Carrying an unregistered gun in the nation’s capitol? Carrying a gun into the Senate office building? Or packing a gun and enough ammo to make a lot of people nervous and then forgetting you had it on you as you walked through the X-ray machine at the entrance of a well-guarded government building in the nation’s capitol?

No word yet on whether this guy still works for the senator, and if so, why.