reconnaissance

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/28/2007 11:37 AM, you wrote:
>passed on to me by Victor Steinbok, ultimately from Fox News:
>
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261583,00.html
>
>Webb's executive assistant was released on his own reconnaissance
>after he pleaded not guilty to charges of carrying a pistol without a
>license and possession of an unregistered firearm and unregistered
>ammunition. Thompson spent the night in a D.C. jail after U.S.
>Capitol Police determined Monday that he did not have a license to
>carry a gun in Washington, D.C., where only law enforcement officials
>are allowed to carry handguns.

LOL!  So if he goes out on reconnaissance in D.C., he will have to go
unarmed.  In Texas, on the other hand, ...

Joel

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