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Florida College Student Arrested After Campus Delivery of Ammunition Leads to Discovery of AR-15 Rifle

WINTER PARK, Florida — A university student in Florida has been arrested and banned from campus after a suspicious delivery of 1,500 rounds of ammunition led campus officials and police to an AR-15 rifle hidden in his dormitory room. Constantine Demetriades, a 21-year-old senior at Rollins College in Winter Park, was taken into custody on Wednesday. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the investigation began when college staff became aware that the student had ordered a large quantity of ammunition to be delivered directly to the campus, a violation of university policy. Acting on this information, law enforcement officers conducted a search of Demetriades' dorm room. There, they discovered an unloaded AR-15 rifle inside an unsecured black carrying case under his bed. The case also contained one loaded magazine and five empty magazines. Police stated that Demetriades was arrested without incident. The student reportedly told investigators t...

A Nation Under the Gun: The Unchecked Proliferation of Firearms and Nigeria's Existential Crisis

The statistics read like a wartime bulletin, yet they describe daily life in Nigeria. In the third quarter of 2025 alone, 465 violent incidents claimed 1,201 lives and saw 791 people kidnapped. Behind this relentless tide of terror, banditry, and communal violence lies a singular, enabling force: the uncontrolled flood of illicit firearms into the hands of non-state actors. Nigeria is now the epicenter of West Africa's arms crisis, accounting for a staggering 70% of the region's estimated 11 million illegal small arms and light weapons (SALW).  A 2021 survey by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) revealed over six million illegal weapons in circulation within the country, with about 70% of them in the hands of criminals and terrorists. This proliferation has created a "quiet but deadly emergency" that threatens the very fabric of the state. How did Africa's most populous nation become so saturated w...