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Venezuela Experiment: Will a Gun Ban Stop the Murders?
15 July 2013
Lowell Sun (USA)
LIMA, Peru — Besieged by one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuelans are hoping against hope that new gun controls may finally halt the violent crime wave engulfing their country.
The new Disarmament Law will restrict purchases of guns and ammunition to the army, police and the country's booming private security industry. Previously, anyone with a permit could legally buy a gun in Venezuela.
Signed into law in June by President Nicolas Maduro and due to... (GunPolicy.org)