Venezuela banned guns -- Let's not follow their example.

From John Hinderaker at Powerline Blog:

In June 2012, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez banned all sales of firearms and ammunition to civilians:

With Chavez’s new gun-control law, only the Venezuelan army, police officials and certain groups such as security and private detective firms are allowed to buy firearms, and then only from state-owned weapons manufacturers and importers. …

According to a press statement, the Chavez government initiated a gun amnesty of sorts in order to phase in the new law and encourage people to give up their weapons peacefully and without incident in order to avoid necessary action such as house-to-house searches and arrests for illegal gun possession.

President Chavez … says the goal of his gun program is to simply disarm all civilians.

The United Nations hailed Chavez’s campaign to get guns out of the hands of ordinary Venezuelans.

Now, socialist Venezuela is in a state of collapse, with rampant inflation and shortages of basic necessities, like food. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, probably millions, have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the government’s corrupt incompetence. The socialist government, now headed by Nicolas Maduro, has responded with a brutal crackdown in which dozens of anti-socialist Venezuelans have been murdered by government forces or paramilitary, pro-government gangs that–who could have guessed?–are heavily armed, despite the country’s “progressive” firearms laws.

Chavez just followed the president of Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao, and Castro.

That's why gun sales always spike when a Democrat is elected President.