Gun-Toting Congresswoman-Elect May Carry Glock at Capitol

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Gun-Toting Congresswoman-Elect May Carry Glock at Capitol

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/guns-capitol-lauren-boebert-glock/2020/11/24/id/998563/

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Gun-Toting Congresswoman-Elect May Carry Glock at Capitol
boebert in a constitution t shirt holding a gun in her restaurant
Lauren Boebert poses for a portrait at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado on April 24, 2018. (Emily Kask/Getty Images)
Tuesday, 24 November 2020 12:19 PM



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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. In an upset last June, she defeated five-term Rep. Scott Tipton for the GOP nomination, in part by claiming he wasn't an ardent enough backer of President Donald Trump.

Boebert asked Capitol Police officials about carrying her weapon when she and other House freshmen taking office in January were in town recently for orientation programs, according to two congressional officials.

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“Members could have a loaded AK47 sitting on their desk and no one would ever do anything about it,"