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Virginia - Oversight Hearing Set on BATFE Abuse at Richmond, VA Gun Show Wednesday, February 08, 2006 On February 15, at 4:00 p.m., the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security will hold an oversight hearing to investigate apparent wrongdoing by BATFE at a Richmond, VA gun show last August. In 2004-05, a troubling pattern emerged at a number of Richmond, VA-area gun shows, where hundreds of BATFE agents and state and local police staked out local shows. Immediately upon learning of these incidents, NRA began investigating and working to ensure congressional oversight hearings would be held...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal agents seized what they believe were six land mines from a storage unit leased by a Raleigh man and former Fort Bragg soldier who was arrested last week in Halifax County, Virginia, for having homemade bomb and an assault rifle. A search warrant made public Monday said the storage unit was one of two that contained explosives. The other unit was in Danville, Va. Christopher F. Kent, 29, was arrested Thursday in Virginia. Kent was detained when an investigator with the Halifax County Sheriffs Office encountered him inside a 1997 Honda Accord on the side of...