. . . in pointless gun control:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-crime-idUSKCN10S2I9Venezuelan 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.
Electrical goods may have little utility when there is little electricity.
Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.
With inflation of 185 percent in 2015 and a currency collapse, police salaries have fallen far behind rising prices creating more incentives for corruption.
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Experts say that much of the ammunition used in crimes in Venezuela is made at the country's government munitions factory and sold on by corrupt police.
So the police sell their guns illegally, then seize the guns and make a big deal about crushing them. Winning?
As far as uniquely identifying every round of ammunition: yeah, good luck with that.
Of course, this crackdown isn't about reducing violent crime (as bad as it is). It's about disarming the populace so they won't rebel against their masters.
