She has been identified as April Lenhart of Mount Morris, Michigan.
Lenhart was participating in a demonstration along the north fence line of the White House when two plain clothes agents observed the firearm holstered on the front of her hip.
The agents notified Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers, who arrested Lenhart and charged her with possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition and carrying a pistol without a license.Lenhart was in the company of another person who was not arrested, according to a Secret Service official.
Lenhart has not been cooperative in interviews, that official said.
Her arrest came less than two days after an Iowa man was arrested. R.J. Kapheim, 43, had weapons in his car and claimed that President Obama called him directly and asked him to go to the White House, authorities said. Kapheim has pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of a rifle.
The Secret Service has been under scrutiny since a Texas Army veteran, Omar Gonzalez, leapt over a White House fence on Sept. 19 and charged into the White House. Gonzalez made it all the way into the East Room before he was tackled, thanks to a string of Secret Service failures detailed in an internal review released last week.
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