Newly elected Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has already asked Capitol Police about her ability to have a gun on Capitol grounds for defense of herself and her fellow lawmakers.
Breitbart News reported that Boebert attended a September 20, 2019, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke rally in which she yelled out that O’Rourke would not be taking her guns.
Boebert said, “Gun-owning Americans who heard your speech and heard what you had to say regarding ‘Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s and AK-47s’ — Well, I am here to say, ‘Hell no, you’re not.’”
Months later Boebert launched a pro-Second Amendment U.S. House campaign and won a seat in the November 3, 2020, elections. She now wants her gun with her in D.C.
The AP reports that there are “a number of lawmakers who carry firearms.”
A 1967 law says Congressional members shall not be prohibited “from maintaining firearms within the confines of his office” or “from transporting within Capitol grounds firearms unloaded and securely wrapped.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) spoke in support of Congressional members carrying guns, citing the 2017 attack on a Congressional baseball practice and saying, “As soon as you leave the Capitol property, you are a target.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange
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