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."

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

"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..."

"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the senator's aide."