TAMPA Crosby, a 17-month-old Labrador, poked his nose into a series of paint cans set in a circle inside Raymond James Stadium. Inside were odors meant to test the dog, the newest canine in the Tampa field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ...more

December 10, 2008

TAMPA - A homeless man who worked odd jobs for a weapons business kept a secret stash of firearms and fake identification, officials say. ...more

July 11, 2008

Hundreds of AK-47-type weapons were smuggled from Florida into Puerto Rico more than four years by a ring of 15 people, according to documents on file in U.S. District Court. ...more

June 26, 2008

TAMPA - Hundreds of AK-47-type weapons were smuggled from Florida into Puerto Rico over four years by a ring of 15 people, according to documents on file in U.S. District Court. ...more

June 25, 2008

For years, marksmen have used a technique called bump firing: shooting a semiautomatic rifle from the hip and allowing the weapon's recoil to pull the trigger. ...more

June 21, 2008

"Burn Zone," by James O. Born (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $25.95) ...more

February 17, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Six people were arrested during an ATF bust this morning after 11 at a parking lot on 22nd Ave., ATF's Paul Canup said. ...more

November 29, 2007