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A 71-year-old man has been arrested with a gun and 20 rounds of 9mm ammunition while parked at an intersection near the Rayburn House Office Building just steps away from the Capitol in downtown Washington, DC.
NBC 4 investigative reporter Scott MacFarlane tweeted that he didn’t see “any federal or DC criminal cases in this guy’s past”.
The suspect has not been identified and it’s unclear whether he planned to enter the office building.
The building, named after former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, is where 169 out of the 435 members of the House of Representatives have their offices. The building is connected to the Capitol by a subway tunnel with two cars.
More than 20,000 members of the National Guard were deployed all over downtown Washington, DC in the days leading up to the inauguration of President Joe Biden on 20 January.
Thousands have already headed home, but as many as between 5,000 and 7,000 will remain at least through February as a threat looms over the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
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