Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn pleaded guilty on May 5 to bringing a loaded gun into an airport last year, accepting responsibility for making such a “mistake.”
Prosecutors wanted Cawthorn to relinquish his Staccato 9 mm handgun, but District Court Judge Cecilia Oseguera allowed the former congressman, who lost his renomination bid to fellow Republican Chuck Edwards in 2022, to keep the weapon.
