Instead, scores of weapons eventually turned up at violent crime scenes in Mexico and in Arizona, where a Border Patrol guard was slain in a shootout.
It shows a tree backlit by the moon atop a little mound: an imagined vision of the scene of the weapons expert's death rather than a depiction (perhaps mercifully) of his suicide in 2003.
Frankel and his editor, Mark Livolsi, begin the picture with a perfectly calibrated montage of semi-starved beauties pulling on lingerie and clothes as they dress for work; it's like the lock-and-load scenes of soldiers strapping on their weapons in war movies, and the girls hit the streets of the Lower East Side and the Meatpacking District ready for battle.
The video also shows a pile of weapons, presumably seized at the scene.
"With the clinical precision of a lab experiment, the Justice Department kept records of weapons they let walk and the crime scenes where they next appeared," Mr. Issa said.
A UN inspection team has made a third attempt to visit the scene of a chemical weapons strike.
Clips of the president laughing and joking at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner are juxtaposed with scenes of fictional Navy commandos checking their weapons in preparation for the mission their president ordered just before donning black tie and gamely going through with the gala.
With its obsessive psychiatrist, its symbols cut into empty swimming-pool floors, its derelict weapons ranges and scenes of grotesque biological entropy, The Voices of Time surveys the zones into which Ballard's fictions would move later in the decade, and the dense network of leitmotifs with which he would populate them.
In the scene, Stewie, when approaching airport security, realizes that his bag is full of weapons.
In one scene, Cage marches into a local hoodlum's hideout to destroy a stash of weapons.
