Gunnery sergeant arrested with gun on Capitol Hill

| August 5, 2015

The Associated Press reports that Gunnery Sergeant Peter Boby, a Congressional fellow from the Marine Corps’ Office of Legislative Affairs and detailed to the office of Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter was arrested by Capitol Police when a loaded .45 caliber weapon was found in his car at a security checkpoint.

Hunter issued a statement Tuesday evening calling Boby “a top-notch performer.”

“He’s a hero who’s seen combat, who’s been wounded and who’s been in good standing with the Marine Corps throughout,” Hunter said. “We are still getting the facts but this was most likely an accident. There’s no reason to suggest it was intentional.”

From Rollcall;

According to the database Legistorm, Boby has been working as the U.S. Marine Corps congressional fellow in California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter’s office since January 2015. Boby is one of 10 Marine Corps fellows working in the House.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this seems ridiculous to me. Not that he was arrested for breaking the laws, but rather that the law doesn’t allow a combat veteran still on active duty in the halls of Congress to carry a weapon, even on his way to work, when an unarmed service member is most vulnerable to violence, you know, where there are no Capitol Police to protect him.

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DocMcC

Yeah, this seems…strange, almost Spooky.

desert

Only idiotic country in the world that doesn’t arm its military!! You know what the corrupt, lying , thieving administration is afraid of don’t you? They are afraid of an armed military will find out about their corruption and drag their worthless asses out of the offices at gun point….should be a cartoon that is “scenes we would like to see”!!

Twist

I can understand no guns inside the building, but inside his own vehicle?

Twist

We don’t allow guns in courthouses because all the criminals have to go there. We don’t allow guns to go in Capitol Hill because all the criminals have to go there, except we call them “Senator” or “Congressman”.

USMCE8Ret

Aside from that, aren’t ALL firearms and any kind of ammunition still illegal in D.C., unless Kathy Lanier says it’s okay to have one?

Hondo

Kinda. They don’t seem to approve a whole lotta firearms purchase permits or licenses in DC these days – and they approve even fewer concealed carry permits.

Steve

They are issuing to friends and influential persons. They are plant eaters looking out for plant eaters and leaving the rest of the people to fend for themselves. They are selfish as this is human nature. Our founding fathers knew this and that’s why they wrote it the way they did to prevent people from being able to manipulate the context. However, people seem to do this anyways because they are not punished like an average citizen would be by imprisonment. They do things the average person would be treated as a traitor until proven otherwise. They currently are treating gun owners as criminals. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Anti-gun people need to open their eyes before a law is made that holds them accountable for having a low I-Q or imprisoning them for speaking ill of government representatives even if it is true. Step one to complete victory: affect their ability to resist.

Roger in Republic

The whole of the District is a gun free zone unless you are a DC cop, and FBI agent, a Capital Police officer, a DEA agent, a Forest Service cop, an Agriculture Agent, an IRS agent. or a street corner drug dealer. Heaven help the man who makes an honest mistake.

fm2176

You forgot a few: Supreme Court Police, DoD Police, DA Police, Pentagon Police, Secret Service, Postal Police, Park Police, Federal Protective Services, etc, etc, etc. I kept a running tally when I was at McNair. 🙂

Steve

Oh yea because IRS is not corrupt. What ever happened to IRS Department avoiding taxes that was uncovered?

Steve

Why is what he did considered a mistake? Considering it a mistake is to open doors to supporting the manipulation of your rights. If you did nothing to harm anyone else then why should you be told “you’re irresponsible” even if you never did anything that was suggest a lack of judgement? Hillary has a track record and people are still talking about her being a candidate. Stop being delusional about the blatant disregard for you rights. The rights your are restricted don’t affect them as they carry without a permit. Who has challenged them? A politician (and some law enforcement) are more responsible then those who have placed their country above themselves? That is selfless service!

Devtun

What was the excuse for giving monkey boy David Gregory a pass? No jail, fine, or anything as far as I know…ok,he probably got scolded.

charles w

Democrat…

Casey

Well it was an empty mag, not a loaded weapon.

Makes it easier to ignore the transgression, y’know.

Steve

Since when has it been a transgression for one the ability to protect themselves? A crime is committed and over before the police ever arrive. There are sooooo many unsolved murders out there that many would likely never have happened had the victim been able to meet force with like force. You do not take a knife to a gunfight!

MrBill

C’mon, what’s a Gunnery Sergeant without a gun?

Zero Ponsdorf

OMG… A live active duty Marine with a gun in his vehicle!!!

This Can NOT Stand! Someone needs to disarm military personnel everywhere in CONUS.

Problem solved.

2/17 Air Cav

Hey, what is he, special? It’s the law. If there are allowances in the law for Marines, then the police made a mistake. If not, not. There’s another story out today about a female Marine from Texas who was arrested in NYC when she saw a sign saying “No Firearms” and informed security that she was carrying pursuant to a CCW license issued by Texas. She claimed she checked the law out first but, if she did, she certainly wasn’t looking at NY’s laws. Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances.

PavePusher

The Law is an Ass.

Ex-PH2

What you really have to ask about is what they are REALLY afraid of.

When you get to the bottom of that cesspool, you’ll know why these things happen to good people.

2/17 Air Cav

“There’s no reason to suggest it was intentional.” Right, Critter. Somebody planted the gun in his car. It damn well had better have been intentional. And what’s his job performance have to do with this at this juncture? That’s for mitigation, just before sentencing. He’s supposed to be holding umbrellas, not a gun.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

It sucks, it’s stupid, BUT he was wrong. The Capital Police or any other PD aren’t going to treat him any different. Active Duty or not doesn’t matter. Both Ft Hood shooters were AD.
Just saying….

2/17 Air Cav

The thing is, we don’t know the whole story on this at all. Was the gun seen by the police? Did he inform the police of it? Did he deny he had a gun but canine sniffed gunpowder? Was he previously warned, let off, and did it agin anyway? Was he a dick about it? I will reserve on this until I hear (if we ever do) just what actually transpired.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

Regardless of the outcome, I promise you that the DC crime rate did not go down any with his arrest.

Steve

Since when has it been a transgression for one the ability to protect themselves? A crime is committed and over before the police ever arrive. There are sooooo many unsolved murders out there that many would likely never have happened had the victim been able to meet force with like force. You do not take a knife to a gunfight!

BTW those Active Duty shooters were terror group supporters. No different then insider threat. A police officer is more qualified to carry? Did you forget Military provides CONUS Law Enforcement before terrorist make it to our shores. Naive children arguments!

2/17 Air Cav

Uh. Oh. He had no license for the gun, the gun was loaded in the car, and, according to the AP, the ammo wasn’t registered. That’s a bucket of charges. Worst of all, he was working for a REPUBLICAN.

Hondo

Yep. All 4 of those are huge red flags in the Commune called the District of Columbia.

Ex-PH2

Ammo registered? Do you do that bullet-by-bullet? Do they have serial numbers on the flat end or the pointy end? Dear me!

Hondo

Ammunition “registration” is not precisely an accurate description, but in effect – yes. DC requires a permit to purchase a firearm; requires all firearms to be registered; requires owners to have a license for their firearms; and prohibits possession of ammunition by those not having a registered firearm. If you have ammo, you better have a registered weapon, a weapons permit and a license for same – or you go to jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_District_of_Columbia

Sounds like you’re talking about a city in Europe or some 3rd world dictatorship vice the USA, doesn’t it?

3E9

Man they must have a very low gun crime rate with all those laws!

Mike_C

Massachusetts as well.

Martinjmpr

this seems ridiculous to me. Not that he was arrested for breaking the laws, but rather that the law doesn’t allow a combat veteran still on active duty in the halls of Congress to carry a weapon, even on his way to work

What if he was not a Marine but an Airman? Or a Coastie? Would that matter?

What if he was a Marine but never left CONUS and therefore was not a “combat veteran”, would that matter?

If not, then what is the relevance of those aspects of his situation?

It shouldn’t matter if he was a war hero with a medal of honor or a filthy hippie with bad teeth and a copy of “The Communist Manifesto” in his hip pocket, if the law says you can’t carry a weapon without a permit, you can’t carry a weapon without a permit.

He may be a Marine but he’s also a citizen and subject to the same laws as everyone else. If I can’t carry a gun in DC (and I can’t), then there’s no reason the good Gunny should be able to either.

Seems to me there’s no good excuse here. Either the Gunny knowingly and deliberately violated the law which means he needs to be held accountable for what he did, or he didn’t know he had his gun in the car which in my mind makes him pretty irresponsible.

Steve

Held accountable for upholding his RIGHT to KEEP AND BEAR ARMS? Who are you to judge? What have you done that was selfless and took you away overseas to meet the SCUMBAGS that flew planes into buildings KILLING THOUSANDS of innocents? You are a coward my friend and cowards bread cowards.

Shane

I believe what the US Constitution says, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and that most if not all gun laws are straight up unconstitutional..

That being said there are laws I don’t like BUT I follow the law, and I vote for candidates that can change the law..

These IDIOTS think the way to change a law is to ignore it and violate it like a MORON and because you use the uniform of the USA to help bolster your idiotic behavior makes you a SCUMBALL..

There is no ‘Honest mistakes or accidents’ when it comes to firearms, firearms are inanimate objects only the person in control of it can make it do something.. Every gun owner has a moral and ethical duty to know what they are doing and that sure as hell means KNOWING the law… RETARD

he did violate UCMJ on personally owned weapons, and I am sure reams of Command policies on personal weapons… ie… Article 92—Failure to obey order or regulation , for not following the rules, regs and UCMJ… so he is f#ed coming and going… BUT remember under UCMJ there are more then criminal outcomes.. he could get an AR 15 or as you navy guys call it a Captains Mast… no criminal conviction on that but all being said…

Poetrooper

F##ed coming and going?

Surely, Shane, you jest. The Gunny works for a U.S. Congressman and if Congressman Hunter, a huge supporter of DoD wants this matter to get swept under the rug, then guess where it’s going to end up, at least as far as DoD is concerned?

Add into the mix that the incident might have already been so disposed of except for who the Gunny’s employer is. Hunter is an outspoken thorn in the side of the Obama administration.

Twist

In other news there has been another shooting at a theater. The only person shot was the criminal. It seems like the only other injuries were with the hatchet that the guy used. Of course they are going to focus on the gun and ignore the hatchet.

http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-reported-at-movie-theater-in-nashville–tennessee-191435924.html

David

News now says it was an air-soft gun…really hard to inflict injuries with them. This guy seems to have been a true mental case.

Luddite4Change

Currently working in the DC area. Its way to easy to run afoul of the varying gun laws between VA, MD, and DC. The best practice is to just take your weapons to and from the range.

Capital Police do random vehicle searches everyday, he just drew the short straw on Monday.

It’s really sad, the Gunny had a bright future ahead of him before today.

FatCircles0311

Illegal for a member of the armed forces of the united states to have a weapon in their own vehicle.

This is still America right?

Steve

It’s called the ARMED FORCES for a reason. These wankers are blatantly telling Americans to piss off and do what I say. I don’t represent you, I rule you!

11B-Mailclerk

People speak of building a fence on the U.S. boarder, to prevent the entry of threats.

let us start building it around DC, so that weird tyrant-zombie infestation is contained, and can burn itself out.

We can then bulldoze the ruins and start over. maybe in Wyoming this time?

11B-Mailclerk

I know. Silly. But sometimes “zombie plague” seems to best explain what happens to people who go there, who are credibly alleged to beleive in Liberty, and the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution over, well, dumb-ass anti-freedom nonsense.

And then they get the Dc infection, and just join the shambling mass.

TallyWhagger

Baby sitting a firearm is just not an easy thing to do. Just imagine, commuting from America, like some parts of Virginia, into D.C., and you happen to have some hardware in your possession. What are you to do? Go back to Virginia? Never leave a safe area?

Disarm the DC “government” and revert the District of Columbia to the MDW or Military District of Washington, under the auspices of “congress”.

There is not, nor has there ever been, a reason for the District of Columbia to be regarded as other than what it is

Jack

Mistakes happen, but in this forum, how much leniency would be shown a private (by a gunny) who made a similar mistake. He should’ve known better

Mike

According to LEOSA, we federal corrections people are authorized off duty carry. The Federal Bureau of Prisons [DOJ] had to be FORCED practically to admit that we were in fact covered. They make EVERY effort to discourage it, and we are NOT allowed to drive armed to work because it’s against the law to even bring a gun on the government/institution grounds. SO…..going and coming to work, we MUST be unarmed when having to stop for gas/groceries – even while in uniform.

Just an Old Dog

Betting he has been playing the odds of his vehicle never being searched.
He’s salty. I dont see anyone with a lick of sense not looking up the gun laws where they are going and making sure they are in compliance.
I used to go to La Gloria, Mexico ( South of Tijuana) anoput once a month. I used to go to the range a lot, but I NEVER had so much as a box of target pasties in the cat when I went there.
Don’t take that chance. Sorry Gunny, Roll the Dice… Move your mice…

Just an Old Dog

*about and *car… Damn my typing sucks like Birdbath’s engine trying to get that last drop of gas.

jonp

Meanwhile Hillary gave several years worth of classified secrets to our enemies and the AG/Obama is looking into Cecil The Lion.

SQUIRREL

2/17 Air Cav

The WaPo has a brief article regarding this matter and I thought, for a few minutes, anyway, that the Marine had some semblance of an understandable out: mistake. The Post reports that “The Congressman’s chief of staff said that the Marine, Peter James Boby, was on his way back from the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s “August Recess Shoot-Out” event in Prince George’s County and most likely forgot he had a gun in the car he was driving.” Okay, it’s now more understandable. He had been at a shooting event and maybe just stopped in at the Capitol for something or other. Or maybe not. The event was held at the Prince Georges County, MD public trap and skeet range. So? So the Marine was arrested for having a loaded .45 in his vehicle. The county park site does not permit rifle or handgun shooting. It’s strictly trap and skeet. So, despite the chief of staff’s attempt to suggest a perfectly reasonable explanation for the Marine’s ‘mistake,’ the explanation fails. Besides, is there anyone who lives or works in MD who doesn’t know that transporting a loaded weapon to or from even a gun range is verboten?

PavePusher

The law is ridiculous because it is a blatant violation of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.

We need to stop inventing crimes.