EXETER, England, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Two assault rifles were missing after a military training exercise in Devon, the British Ministry of Defense says.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Iraq is becoming one of the United States' largest arms customers, switching from cheaper, less sophisticated Soviet weapons, a U.S. government official says.
CHICAGO, May 17 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday arming Chicago police with semiautomatic rifles increases the need to ban assault weapons.
CHICAGO, April 27 (UPI) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said he backs a measure proposed by his new police superintendent to arm police with semiautomatic assault rifles.
MIAMI, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Miami Police Chief John Timoney said the 2004 expiration of the federal ban on assault weapons has triggered an "arms race" in his city.
MOSCOW, July 5 (UPI) -- More than 100 million Kalashnikov assault rifles have been produced in 60 years, the head of the Russian arms export agency said Thursday in Moscow.
MOSCOW, July 26 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he was prepared to sign a deal with Russia to make Russian assault rifles at a new factory in Venezuela.
URRUNGE, France, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Police in southwestern France have discovered two major caches of weapons suspected of being stored by Basque separatists in Spain, the BBC reported Monday.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Mexico will soon allocate $45,000,000 to a project to manufacture the most dangerous assault rifle in the world, Reforma reported Wednesday.
LILLEHAMMER, Norway, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A large cache of arms including automatic assault rifles was taken from a military camp in Lillehammer in southeast Norway, Aftenposten reported Thursday.
