VENEZUELA DISARMING ITS CITIZENS AS CONFISCATED

1,571 views · Published 18 August 2016 · 2:33 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Real Thing TV · 2016 · News & Politics

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Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets.

Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.

Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.

Venezuela has the world's second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.

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