Congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden, a Republican running to fill the Wisconsin seat held by US Rep Ron Kind of La Crosse, received two fines when he was caught with a gun in his carry-on luggage at an Iowa airport last August, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported.
Recent court documents unearthed by the Wisconsin newspaper showed that the Republican hopeful brought a loaded 9mm Sig Sauer handgun in his bag all the way to the security checkpoint of the Cedar Rapids airport in an incident that Mr Van Orden’s campaign said was a “mistake”.
