Washington Wizards say its guard, Gilbert Arenas, stored unloaded firearms in a container in his locker at the Verizon Center. The team said the firearms were unloaded and there was no ammunition in the locked container. Arenas told The Washington Times he took his guns to the Verizon Center after his daughter, Hamiley Penny, was born this month. Approximately a week after her birth, he says he handed the firearms over to team security with a request they turn the guns over to police. Arenas told the newspaper. “After my daughter was born, I was just like, ‘I don’t need these anymore.”
This is not Arenas' first trouble with firearms. He was suspended for Washington’s season opener in 2004 because he failed to maintain proper registration of a handgun while living in California in 2003. The league’s collective bargaining agreement allows for players to legally possess firearms but prohibits them at league facilities or when traveling on any league-related business.
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