A woman boarding a flight on Monday at Dulles International Airport was stopped briefly by the Transportation Security Administration after an X-ray scanner found that her walking cane was concealing a sword.

The Hill has the story of an arrest by U.S. Capitol police this afternoon of a man who police say had several weapons in his car. The suspect’s car was searched after he stopped to ask an officer for directions, and the officer noticed something suspicious about the man’s vehicle. But get this: he was arrested at 3rd street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW for allegedly possessing two long guns, three handguns, and a sword…

The Hill reports that Michael Gorbey, the Virginia man who was convicted on weapons charges stemming from his January arrest for carrying a loaded shot gun and a samurai sword with him around Capitol Hill, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. That’s a pretty staggering sentence, which is the result of Gorbey’s conviction on 14 charges, including one for possessing and transporting a “weapon of mass destruction.” A couple of weeks after his…