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Greene supports carrying weapons on the House floor A NYT article reminding of the days days when weapons were carried on the floor of Congress THE announcement that Representatives Heath Shuler of North Carolina and Jason Chaffetz of Utah are planning to wear guns in their home districts has surprised many, but in fact the United States has had armed congressmen before. In the rough-and-tumble Congress of the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s, politicians regularly wore weapons on the House and Senate floors, and sometimes used them. During one 1836 melee in the House, a witness observed re...