21.   Police Senior Superintendent Sharon Schutte said South African police were investigating separate illegal firearm charges against Mezosy.

22.   A firearms violation charge was filed Friday against a Russian soldier who shot to death a journalist covering a hostage crisis in southern Russia last week.

23.   A man accused of killing two abortion clinic workers and wounding five others near Boston last week pleaded innocent Friday to federal firearms charges.

24.   Bail is rarely granted on drug and firearms charges in St. Kitts, and the decision to free the two prompted protests among St. Kitts residents.

25.   BOSTON -- John Salvi, arrested for the murder of two abortion clinic workers, pleaded innocent to firearms charges.

26.   District Judge Ramona M. Roberts arraigned Smith on charges of open murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder and a felony firearm charge.

27.   Evans said the firearms charge would be dropped because it only applies if a pound or more of marijuana is found with the weapon.

28.   Federal marshals investigating the Oklahoma bombing arrested Steven Garrett Colbern on a firearms charge.

29.   Fortier made a deal with prosecutors last summer, pleading guilty to a firearms charge in exchange for testimony about the bombing plot.

30.   He was charged in Nebraska with interstate transportation of explosives and he faces a firearms charge in Nevada.