"I'd rather lose one son than my gun, because with a gun I can save my family," declares a frightened Congolese villager in "Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms," a depressing, scattershot survey of the spread of weaponry around the world, especially in Africa. This Dutch film, directed by Sander Francken, shifts abruptly back and forth between a ground-level view of how small arms have affected poor countries and a throw-up-your-hands analysis of the inability of any... (GunPolicy.org)

A 65-year-old Spokane man has been ordered held in custody on federal charges of illegally possessing automatic weapons and illegally storing explosives in a Bellevue commercial storage shed while agents investigate how he came to possess a huge military-grade arsenal that included grenade launchers, machine guns and plastic explosives. Ronald Struve, heavyset and bearded, appeared in Seattle before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler on Tuesday after being... (GunPolicy.org)

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee — Oak Ridge police are investigating where an assault rifle with a loaded clip may have come from, after a Wal-Mart employee found it outside the store, among the shopping carts. Deputy Police Chief Alan Massengill said law enforcement personnel searched the area around the store for a young black teenager who may have been associated with the gun — but didn't locate him. Massengill said a "loss prevention employee" called the Police... (GunPolicy.org)

DENTON, Maryland — Maryland State Police have arrested four suspects on illegal firearms charges following an undercover sting operation that occurred in a parking lot near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Police say that shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, an undercover state trooper met with 23-year-old Michael A. Lednum of Denton and the three other suspects in a parking lot on Kent Island, just east of the Bay Bridge. According to police, Lednum sold the undercover... (GunPolicy.org)