Secret Service Arrests Armed Woman Near White House After Obama Speech

The moon rises over the White House in Washington, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Shortly after President Barack Obama gave a speech announcing executive action on immigration on Thursday night, Secret Service agents arrested a woman carrying a gun outside the White House.

Michigan resident April Lenhart, 23, was protesting at the White House’s north fence when agents noticed a gun in a holster on her hip, an agency spokesman told USA Today. Lenhart was charged with possessing an unregistered firearm and carrying a pistol without a license, the spokesman said.

It’s the second such arrest in as many days. Secret Service agents arrested an Iowa man who approached them carrying a .30-30 rifle and ammunition on Wednesday.

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  1. Just following orders from GOP Congressmen for violence and anarchy.

  2. My first thought was how much this is stoked by the GOP Congressmen talking of anarchy. These irresponsible asshats in Congress know that what the President did was was legal. Yet, they will push until something serious happens.

  3. White supremacists and Teabaggers unite!

  4. Hey. “Second Amendment Remedies”, buddy. It’s in the Konztitooshin.

    Cue Lee Greenwood!

  5. When a Republican calls for stopping Obama’s executive action “by any means necessary” the nut jobs out there take it seriously.

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