Oh, we have them. At least the Capitol Police have them.
The story continues:
This is not the first time that a case like this has come to light and under investigation in recent years. In 2015, there were a rash of Capitol Police service weapons left behind in inappropriate places.
- A member of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s security detail left his Glock and magazine stuffed in the toilet seat cover holder of a Capitol Visitor Center bathroom stall in January 2015, where a CVC worker found the gun.
- A member of Speaker John A. Boehner’s dignitary protection team left a loaded firearm in the bathroom of Ohio Republican’s office suite in March 2015, where a 7- or 8-year-old child visiting the Capitol with his parents found the weapon.
- A third Glock was found in April 2015 by custodial staff cleaning the Capitol Police headquarters building on D Street Northeast.
The pattern led to heightened concern about the department charged with protecting one of the world’s most important and frequently visited complexes, with law enforcement officials pledging that the Capitol Police’s Office of Professional Responsibility and its independent inspector general would review the incidents and report findings and recommendations to the Capitol Police Board.
Are there any police officers here co can explain why these guys are taking out their guns in the bathroom? I don't get that at all. Hang your whole best on the hook on the stall door, where you can't miss it as you walk out.
When I was in the military as a private through sergeant, I took keeping track of my weapon very seriously. When I was an officer, I knew my career would be over if I lost track of it, so I tied it to my TA50 with 550 cord as a "dummy rope."
At the same time, Capitol Police launched its own probe of who leaked a photo of one of the guns left in the toilet seat cover dispenser in the CVC bathroom.
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In the wake of those inquiries, at least one sergeant in the Capitol division, allegedly in retribution for a leak related to Roll Call’s reporting that year of the three incidents, was suspended.
Oh so no punishment for an officer that leaves his gun where children can find and easily fire them, but a suspension for an officer for leaking to the press that their officers do that?