04/12/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"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..."
"The incident is an oversight and says the aide is a former Marine and a trusted employee of the senator."
"The gun actually belonged to Senator Webb, and that Webb had given Thompson the gun on the way to the airport."
"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the senator's aide."