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The Army Contracting Command on Wednesday announced that two of the country's biggest M16 makers will compete for a huge military rifle contract.

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A federal judge in Iowa on Wednesday gave a man from Lebanon a nearly five-year sentence for his connection to a ring of Lebanese expatriates who shipped guns to the Middle East.

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A gun safe, along with 22 guns, was taken from the home while it was unoccupied, but images of the suspect were captured on a surveillance video.

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An Iowa man has been sentenced to 28 ½ years in federal prison for trying to send hundreds of guns to Lebanon.

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As the pursuit unfolded, police received a call about an armed robbery, but soon discovered the so-called victim was actually one of the burglary suspects.

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The final member of a Cedar Rapids family caught shipping guns to Lebanon pleaded guilty in federal court last week, the Justice Department said.

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Authorities charged four people from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with illegally shipping containers containing guns and ammunition to the Middle East, according to a federal complaint filed Tuesday.

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KWWL – Eastern Iowa Breaking News, Weather, Closings Four Cedar Rapids people are charged with purchasing 113 guns, including assault rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition over the past 17 months in order to smuggle them to Lebanon, according to a federal complaint Tuesday. [ KWWL ]

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In the battle to regain lost ground in Iraq, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved President Obama’s plan to arm Syrian rebels to help “degrade and destroy” the extremist group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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Monday, an armored vehicle – packed with explosives and driven by two suicide bombers – breeched the defenses of the Minakh air base in Beirut, Lebanon, affording Syrian rebel fighters the opportunity to launch their offensive attack. The isolated government soldiers in northern Syria had defended Minakh against the rebels for nearly a year, but […]

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