Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) tweeted a photo last week of him and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) posing with an American flag-patterned AR-15 rifle in a show of their Second Amendment bona fides.
Unfortunately for Buck, a Washington, D.C. attorney general’s office spokesperson told The Hill that it’s illegal to possess an AR-15 in the District. The spokesperson told the publication that the matter had been referred to the Metropolitan Police Department.
.@TGowdySC stopped by today and we got a photo with my AR-15 #2A #SecondAmendment @TPPatriots @TeaPartyExpress pic.twitter.com/FhnAlyqTeW
— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) April 16, 2015
Buck told The Hill that Capitol Police approved of him bringing the rifle into his office, where he said he keeps it locked in a display case. He also said the firearm was “inoperable.”
“While safety protocols call for all guns to be treated as if they are loaded, this one isn’t,” he told the publication. “Further, a close inspection of the only public photo of the rifle will show that the bolt carrier assembly is not in the rifle; it is in fact in Colorado.”
“It is a beautiful, patriotic paper weight,” Buck added.
Earlier this year, the right-wing blogosphere cried foul after the conservative blog Legal Insurrection published evidence that police in the District had wanted to arrest David Gregory, the former host of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” for holding a gun magazine on-air in 2013. The attorney general’s office ultimately declined to prosecute Gregory.
" ‘It is a beautiful, patriotic paper weight,’ Buck added."
Owned by an ugly, traitorous boat anchor.
EDIT: for the love of Pasta, Gowdy, who the hell dressed you this morning?
Not the best cammo paint job
Beat me to it! Never mind the gun, who the hell said that shit looked good? Stevie Wonder or Steve Harvey?
Awfully big paper weight. Who takes their picture posing with a paper weight anyway?
I agree, this is a very serious matter deserving of investigation by the police … the Fashion Police. Good grief!!!