Capitol Lens: In Their Sights

By Roll Call Staff

Posted January 24, 2013 at 5:43pm

Congressional staff and Capitol Police set up a display of guns to be used as props for a Thursday news conference in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, where legislation was unveiled that would ban certain types of semi-automatic weapons.

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