I saw this in the AP.
Gun-toting congresswoman-elect may carry Glock at Capitol
A firearms-toting congresswoman-elect who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, has already asked Capitol Police about carrying her weapon on Capitol grounds, her office has acknowledged. If she does so, she apparently won’t be alone.
The practice is allowed for lawmakers, with some limitations, under decades-old congressional regulations. The public is barred from carrying weapons in the Capitol, its grounds and office buildings.
Republican Lauren Boebert, 33, was elected this month from a conservative western Colorado district after gaining notice as a brash pro-gun activist who straps a Glock pistol to her hip.
Lawmakers may not bring weapons into the House chamber and other nearby areas, the regulations say, according to a letter Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., wrote in 2018. Aides can carry lawmakers’ weapons for them on the Capitol complex, he wrote.
In his letter to House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, Huffman summarized the regulations after being briefed on them by Irving. An opponent of letting members of Congress carry guns on Capitol grounds, Huffman abandoned a 2018 effort to halt the practice due to colleagues’ strong opposition and said in an interview that he wouldn’t try again this year due to continued resistance.
Huffman said the loophole for lawmakers, adopted after a summer of racial unrest in American cities, is outdated and risky.
He said members and their staffs carry firearms around the Capitol “all the time,” though he mentioned no names. He said lawmakers keep guns in their publicly accessible offices, though building entry has been limited due to COVID-19
Every now and again I get the idea of running for Congress.
If I do and I get elected, you will be damn sure that I will be strapped like a motherfucker.
Forget BBQ gun, I’m going to need a Capitol Gun. Strike that, I will need Capitol Guns. In the plural.
At least a few very tuned 1911s, pinned and recessed S&W revolvers. I know, for historical sake, I’m going to need a fully restored M1917 (S&W preferred over Colt).
That will be my thing. Like Congresswoman Frederica “Pimp Hat” Wilson with her hats, I’m going to amass an amazing collection of bling iron to wear.
I would say to carry a Beretta, but you’d probably be accused of Italian collusion.
If you do go full on in your face with it. American kydex benders with red white and blue camo dipped shells, good ol Simply Rugged leather heater homes, and an office gun safe that plays Stars and Stripes Forever at high volume whenever you open it.
Tooled leather. EL paso Saddelry.
I love it !
can someone vote absentee for you from here in NM ?
asking for a friend
What ever it is go BIG and fully pimped out – high polish stainless steel or chrome with gold plate accents fully engraved – a S&W mod 29 6″ in 44 mag, a S&W 500, a JSP Desert Eagle in 50 AE or a new Auto Mag in 44mag
Remember – to reporters everything from a derringer to a Barrett 50 BMG rifle is a Glock. I’ve seen pictures of her open carrying and I sure didn’t notice what sort of gun it was.
I have seen pics of her too.
Didn’t notice she was open carrying at all. Weird that.
Picture 1 in the AP article sure looks like a Glock to my novice eyes. Picture 2 tells me why CBM didn’t see picture 1. 🙂
For Capitol Gun you a M1917 won’t cut it, you’ll need a M1919.