District 9 is one long sales pitch for South Africa’s arms industry

The cutting edge weaponry shown off in Neill Blomkamp's film has its origins in the apartheid years

Rapper Dolla killed in Los Angeles

The 21-year-old who had worked with Akon was gunned down while in LA to record album

Michael T Duke is making a killing from the gun boom

While murder and suicide numbers soar, the Wal-Mart CEO watches his supermarket giant capitalise on booming weapons sales