[Commissar_Will]

Recently I got Garry's Mod, partly in order to help with my drawing the human figure due to the very realistic models. However, while trying to create scenes I've run into a problem which even my Google-fu seemingly cannot solve - weapons. I just can't work out how to give ragdolls weapons, or to spawn weapons at all. I can't find them in the spawn menu anywhere - although infuriatingly I've been able to find TF2 weapons, but not Half-Life weapons, which are the ones I want. The only way I've found of creating weapons is to spawn an NPC with a weapon, then kill the NPC - however, if I get too close to the weapon it just disappears and I collect the ammo from it, like in Half-Life - not exactly convenient for figure posing. So, my problem is this - is there any way of spawning ragdolls holding weapons, and is it possible to spawn weapons that won't disappear if you come into contact with them?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give on this.

EDIT: Oh, and it'd also be pretty handy if I could actually save a map without it going wrong and crashing the entire program. :P