A WARRINGTON man is due to appear in court charged with modifying an imitation firearm following an armed police arrest.

Investigators say the convicted bank robber was on supervised release when agents found ammunition, firearm parts, and a loaded pistol in his Mansfield home.

A soldier's arrest for concealing a cache of firearms raises serious questions about accountability and oversight in South Africa's fight against gangsterism.

Members confiscated an assortment of blank cartridges, laptops, a phone, magazines, a scope, a magnifier, lower and upper parts of rifles and pistols, as well as a compound used in explosives.

An armourer who converted blank firing guns to become deadly weapons and planned to produce industrial supplies of crystal meth has been jailed.