Lou Tryon, her husband, Reg, and their two granddaughters, had a not-so-filling lunch Friday.

“They’re feeding us popcorn,” Tryon said, chuckling.

The Tryons were in the office of U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., awaiting the start of a tour of the Capitol when gun shots were reportedly heard in the garage at the Rayburn House Office Building.

“We were waiting for another couple when we heard a sound that I guess was a signal because a lady in the office got up and locked the door and then turned the TV on for us,” Tryon said.

She and her husband live in Salina, and their granddaughters live in Fort Worth, Texas.

“That was at about 10:30 a.m.,” she said. “It’s almost 1 p.m. now.”

The only food Moran’s hospitable staff could cobble together for lunch was popcorn and “a few other things stashed in the cupboards,” Tryon said.

Officials issued an all-clear about 3:15 p.m. It was determined that construction noise had apparently been mistaken for gunplay.

Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., was visiting the offices of the Lawrence Journal-World about 10 a.m. Friday when gunshots were heard in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Moran, whose offices are in the Rayburn building, monitored the events in Washington, D.C., on the television at right during his visit to the newspaper.

“Everybody’s been real nice,” said Amber Ziegler, a junior at Kansas State University. She and her parents, Ken and Linda Ziegler from Oakley and her brother, Brett, also were visiting Moran’s office.

“We’re taking a family vacation,” Ziegler said.

Moran’s office is on the fourth floor of the Rayburn building. The shots were reportedly heard in the building’s garage.

“They said it was G3, which means it was on the third level underground,” Tryon said. “We had just come from there.”

Moran wasn’t in the office. He was in Lawrence, visiting the Journal-World when the news broke on national television.

“Evacuations are not unusual,” Moran said, “but I have to say this is the first time there’s been a lockdown due to shots being fired.”

The news was surprising, Moran said. Everyone entering the building passes through a metal detector. Cars, too, are routinely searched.

“And it’s illegal to have a gun in Washington, D.C.,” Moran said. “There’s a gun ban.”

Moran was on his way to Wichita to watch his daughter, Kelsey, take part in the state track meet.

“She’s in the two-mile,” Moran said. “She doesn’t know I’m coming. It’s a surprise.”

Moran, a five-term incumbent who’ll be on the ballot again this fall, said he hopes to move out of the Rayburn building.

“I’ve been there two years – it’s for the most senior members,” Moran said. “But I’m moving out at my first opportunity : to somewhere that’s more warm and welcoming.”

The Rayburn building, he said, it “too big, too marbley,” adding, “It’s not a very inviting building.”

He said he hopes to move into one of two other congressional office buildings.