Jim Webb actually said...

"I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where completely inadvertently he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday."

"Democrat Senator Jim Webb of Virginia went on the record to explain how a trusted aide of his named Phillip Thompson ended up getting stopped by police with the senator's loaded pistol at a checkpoint..."

"I have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex, and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson. And that's all."

"The gun actually belonged to Senator Webb, and that Webb had given Thompson the gun on the way to the airport."