What could possibly go wrong?
In Peru, they’re destroying 30K guns:
Abiding by international peace and disarmament policies, the Peruvian General Directorate for the Control of Security Services, Guns, Ammunitions and Explosives [that’s a frightening name, isn’t it – ed] for Civil Use (DICSCAMEC) is to incinerate 35,240 firearms within the next several months.
Since DICSCAMEC depends on Peru’s Ministry of the Interior, it is waiting for the Ministry to define the date on which the firearms will be destroyed, said the general director of DICSCAMEC, Ricardo Ganiku.
He explained that the firearms to be incinerated consisted of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and carbines.
According to the general director of DICSCAMEC, the firearms were confiscated from criminals, people that had obtained them illegally and from people that did not have a license or had an expired one.
International disarmament policies that are overseen by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am
What a waste of perfectly good guns. If they don’t want them, they should sell them to a free country.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Hmmm, I didn’t see the term ‘assault rifle’.
I wonder if they don’t have them there, or if they kept those for themselves…?
/snark
January 17th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This is what we call a Price Support for black marketers.
Once the demand has dropped to some low level due to the fact that the supply has approached saturation, you pull a stunt like this, you reduce the supply, and the demand for new purchases will increase.
But that’s basic economics, and socialists have therefore never heard it.