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Fox News;

Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law,” with the explicit aim to “disarm all citizens.” The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all - except government entities.

Chavez initially ran a months-long amnesty program encouraging Venezuelans to trade their arms for electrical goods. That year, there were only 37 recorded voluntary gun surrenders, while the majority of seizures - more than 12,500 – were by force.

In 2014, with Nicolás Maduro at the helm following Chavez’s death but carrying through his socialist “Chavista” policies, the government invested more than $47 million enforcing the gun ban – which has since included grandiose displays of public weapons demolitions in the town square.

A former gun store owner inside Venezuela – who told Fox News he has now been relegated to only selling fishing supplies since the ban – said he can’t sell any type of weaponry - even a slingshot - and underscored that even BB ammunition and airsoft guns are only issued to police and military officers.

The punishment for illicit carrying or selling a weapon now is 20 years behind bars.

PAY ATTENTION AMERICA! ~ "You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out!"

No wonder Obama gave Chavez a BJ

Them damn Dumbocrats will do that to us if we ain’t careful!!!

Yet another socialist utopia...... Now let's all embrace socialism in America and embrace some of our openly socialist office seekers. What could go wrong?

I thought that was Sean Penn's job. Old Penn really took it hard when Hugo croaked.

Send Bernie in, he'll show them how to do socialism right!

I'll bet Bernie could eat the phugg outa them dogs

The left, democrats, liberals, communist, socialist, islamites, and globalist want power/control of the American people also are trying to disarm the America people. Unfortunately there are some republicans trying to disarm American people too.

"You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out!"

That, sir, may be the quote of the decade.

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Thanks, it's a good one, but it's not mine, I had to borrow it.

I don’t care if you stole it.....it’s a great quote! memtb

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The ones running around starving and rioting in Ven are the same useful idiots here that blindly follow the free [bleep] and liberal agenda. Just like the dumb azzes here that think that sht cant go to hell. Just go back five to seven years and read the media reports on how great Ven was in all its socialist glory. The first thing I learned in college economics was that nothing is free. Someone has to pay for it. When you get that theory down pat then you can proceed to understand economics. If you would have gone back in time and ask Vens if giving up their guns was a good idea they would have said”what does anyone need with guns” , “only the government needs them to protect us” . Hows that working out? As a matter of fact, hows that worked out anywhere?

Don't forget, socialist Bernie is a multimillionaire.
He ain't a needin' to eat them dogs!

The democraps have the same in store for us.

You never saw any of this in the news in 2013 did ya?

So would most Republicans if the NRA didn't keep them in line.

Fugg'm, fugg all the liberals and fugg all the so called conservatives living in CA, NY et al and giving thousands and thousands of dollars to the enemy.

That's why the a-hole socialists running on the Dem ticket need to be defeated, now - and ever after...