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McCain Adviser Was Arrested For Carrying A Shotgun To Work At The Capitol
As if helping to plan the Iraq war wasn't troubling enough, now we learn that Randy Scheunemann, John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, has been personally arrested at the Capitol for carrying an illegal weapon.
Scheuneman was arrested, charged and fingerprinted back in 1997 when Capitol Police saw a shotgun case in the back of his SUV while he was driving to work.
The Huffington Post points out today an old Washington Times article about the Jan. 23, 1997 arrest. Scheunemann was charged with possession of an unregistered firearm (an unloaded 12-gauge) and unregistered ammunition (two rounds).
Scheunemann, then an aide to Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), told police he'd been duck hunting recently and fogotten to take the weapon out of the car, according to the Times story.
I would argue the fact that he was an aide to Lott is more damning than having an unlicensed fire arm on the capitol. I wonder if he helped craft Lott's faboo send up of Thurmond in '02.
August 15, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
How 'bout we the American people start drafting our own bogus documents and send Randy an invitation to that Dick Cheney going away hunting party!
August 15, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just to put this into context - it was only a few years before this incident that there was that rash of people firing wildly at the White House (fortunately no one was hurt). It's was in the following this incident that two Capitol Hill police officers were tragically shot by an armed assailant trying to enter the Capitol Building.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Capitol_shooting_incident_(1998)
Security precautions for the Capitol are no laughing matter - and until recently the protection of having guns banned in the whole of DC was a valuable tool for the DC police in preventing these types of incidents. There is something deeply worrying about a man who would feel it appropriate to bring a weapon to the US Capitol.
August 15, 2008 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Carrying a shotgun onto congressional property is a stupid oversight. Re-starting the cold war was a deliberate and premeditated act of treason.
August 15, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Duck hunting, huh? It should be relatively easy to figure out if this is true. What kind of gun was it and what kind of ammo did he have?
August 15, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Big deal. Republicans skeptical of McCain will consider this arrest a plus.
August 16, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yet when Webb's staffer shows up with a handgun is it head-line news . . .
August 18, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink