McCain Adviser Was Arrested For Carrying A Shotgun To Work At The CapitolAs 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.