Minor to stow Sword, Standard to remove Shield, Minor to stow Shield, Minor to - oh wait, you're out of actions and don't have your bow out.

Stick with the Javelin and take the Master at Arms feat, it's not like Heavy Blade Expertise's bonus effect is that great; unless you go with Flails, then you want Flail Expertise and Quick Draw.

And since I just mentioned them, the essentials books introduced some fantastic feats to give feat bonuses to hit, they're basically Weapon Expertise but with a fantastic bonus like "In addition, when you hit with a melee weapon attack using a flail and the attack lets you slide the target, you can knock the target prone instead of sliding it." which works great with Footwork Lure and eventually in paragon - Lashing Flail

Oh, and Rules Compendium. Because Rules.

On second thought, Baldhermit is pretty much right, there's so much Dragon magazine content that you'll want access too - Themes, powers and feats for classes that desperately need them like Avenger - as well as the books you don't have, that the DDI Sub is very helpful unless you want to buy all the things (and then you're still short the Dragon articles). Regardless, you want the Rules Compendium.

1) The problem is, that you'll find only a limited amount of magic items. So if you have 4 different weapons, you'll neglect other item slots, which could be more important. Simply get yourself a long range javelin and all your ranged problems are solved (unless the target is more than 30 squares away).

Blake, assuming that your DM is not a total ***** (you married her, after all), she will adjust the campaign to the parties needs and abilities. As such, I do not see the need for any ranged weapon at all.

D&D 4e heavily rewards specialisation, so I would recommend you fully equip yourself in feats, powers and items to be the melee controller you're supposed to be.

In the off-chance, once in a blue moon, you do come across a flying creature that your two controllers cannot bring down, bring a simple magic +1 javelin for 360gp.
Given the fact a level 6 character has very limited resources, both in cash as in powers and feats, that is all the investment I would be willing to drop into that particular area. Do not forget that anything you spend in dealing with possible flying creatures is something you are not spending on your main objective, which is melee control.


As a total aside, you should not prioritise Dex for the same reason. You need Strength, you need a basic level of Wisdom (14 minimum), and some points in Con would probably also not be entirely wasted.   

      

Another really nice option, to avoid range nonsense, is to get a Fey Strike Weapon.  On the rare cases you can't reach something for a turn you just MBA as a ranged 20 without provoking.  If you really need that flying jerk down, just teleport him next to you.