Venezuela, Bankrupt, Destroys 2000 Rusty Shotguns and Homemade Pistols

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-
Venezuela is a country rich in oil made poor by the government takeover of a kleptocracy with socialistic underpining.

The solution to problems in that philosophy come with governmental edicts, followed by destructive policies. In Venezuela’s case, the drop in oil price made it much harder to buy votes. Votes are hard to buy when you do not have any money.

The Venezuela government followed its predilections for solving society’s problems by outlawing the private ownership of guns, with the purported purpose of reducing crime.

What happened was predictable for anyone who knows basic economics. Guns became so valuable that police are routinely murdered for their weapons; local manufacture of crude but effective pistols has increased.

Crime soared, and the concentration of power by the kleptocracy was, temporarily, solidified.

The Venezuelan government made a public spectacle of their “success” in confiscating firearms from poor farmers, desperate citizens (admittedly most citizens in Venezuela) and criminals.

The regime destroyed 2,000 firearms a few days ago. Given the state of police in Venezuela, underpaid, riddled with corruption, and often murdered for their guns, I am sure the best guns never made it back to …Read the Rest

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