Just days after a congressional staffer was arrested for allegedly bringing a gun into the Cannon House Office Building, a second man has been arrested for the same offense, police said.
U.S. Capitol Police officers discovered a 9mm Ruger handgun during an administrative search at the entrance to Cannon's rotunda. It happened around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday.
Ronald William Prestage, of South Carolina has been charged with carrying a pistol without a license.
Prestage is a veterinarian and farm operator who is also president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council. He may have been on Capitol Hill to lobby on agriculture issue.
Congress is the only branch of the federal government that is Republican-controlled. No word on what party the man with the gun is a member of. But he is from the same county (Kershaw) as Sen. Vincent Sheheen.
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