Earlier this week, Havana announced a two-month amnesty for gun owners across the country to register their unlicensed guns and thus (ideally, but probably not actually) eliminate the illegal gun culture in the country. Today, perhaps on a related bent to curb illegality in all its forms and better account for the true situation in the […]
Today, Cuba declared a two-month amnesty for unlicensed gun owners—an implicit acknowledgment of the presence of an illegal underground market in Cuba, since very few individuals beyond active military personnel and state security agents are legally allowed to even possess weapons. As the Associated Press reports: “Even most police officers are required to leave their […]