Guns in Puerto Rico: Locked and Loaded in the Tropics

At 91 percent, Puerto Rico has the world’s highest overall percentage of homicides by firearms. But this statistic hasn’t stopped the NRA from setting up shop, establishing their 51st chapter in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s sky-high murder rates and extremely strict gun laws have only encouraged the association to fight for their constitutional rights, and arm the island with more and more guns. In 2014 alone, gun permit applications doubled, possession of guns tripled, and licenses for shooting ranges quadrupled the previous year's numbers.
VICE News traveled to Puerto Rico to look at the rising tide of firearms that are changing the commonwealth and the culture. We met up with street thugs, the Puerto Rican SWAT team, pro-gun advocates, a gun control politician, and a women’s gun group, to find out how the NRA’s 51st and newest testing ground is working out.
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  • @jessewatson6433
    @jessewatson64335 жыл бұрын

    That was a MAC-10 Not an uzi, and the Glock does not have an "internal hammer" it is striker fired

  • @Munroe031
    @Munroe0318 жыл бұрын

    Pulls a MAC 10 off the shelf, calls it an Uzi. Then states its the "Preferred weapon of Israeli special forces". What a clown.

  • @ancientphoenix1946
    @ancientphoenix19463 жыл бұрын

    I love Puerto Rican people very much, I wanted to go on the record and say Puerto Ricans are more than welcome in the country of Poland!!! my home is your home. Ps, please bring delicious food in amazing music with you I love you and God bless Puerto Rico I pray for you.

  • @cryosphere1130
    @cryosphere11303 жыл бұрын

    *gets to Puerto Rico *

  • @Valivali94
    @Valivali949 жыл бұрын

    I am not saying that no gun restriction is the way to go, but in a country with such high crime rates, why is the government making it so hard and expensíve to get a legal gun? They only promote illegal guns that way...

  • @adrienperie6119
    @adrienperie61199 жыл бұрын

    The annoying thing with male journalists is that when it comes to guns, they feel like they have to pretend like they even have a clue what they're holding.

  • @DonnieDonnie1
    @DonnieDonnie13 жыл бұрын

    He doesn’t even know what guns he’s holding 😂

  • @VMNSK
    @VMNSK Жыл бұрын

    Bro these switches were in Puerto Rico before the states 💀

  • @compositebook7874
    @compositebook78744 жыл бұрын

    Puerto Rico is on veteran difficulty

  • @dionelreyes529
    @dionelreyes5297 жыл бұрын

    Puerto Rico is actually pretty nice. The problem is that the media only focuses on the places that have this problem. Most of the times if you don't mess with drugs you don't get murdered.

  • @johnpanc
    @johnpanc Жыл бұрын

    Theprocess to get a gun legally here in Puerto Rico is so difficult because the worst criminals on the Island are the government.

  • @georgev5766
    @georgev57664 жыл бұрын

    I was there around 2004 when Gilberto El Pollo (one of the drug lords in metro area of San Juan) was killed. It was chaotic and the range of high caliber weapons I saw in Cataño was insane. It was rumored that most of them were bought from the marine base in Vieques. That year, there were more people killed in PR than in Iraq. Remember this was the height of Iraq war too. Insane!

  • @silverfox4557
    @silverfox45574 жыл бұрын

    The host doesn't know a thing about guns.

  • @TheRedshift007
    @TheRedshift0079 жыл бұрын

    I am Puerto Rican and I have only one thing to say; if there isn't reform or just plain expulsion of the current government into the government that our founding father gave us; which is a constitutional republic in both Puerto Rico and the states; I can guaranty that in the near future we will live in a totalitarian form of government. This is extremely alarming and depressing because most people live in the here and now and do not look into the future to see the consequences of our actions as a society today may cause tomorrow. The moral decay in both Puerto Rico and the states is rampant and nations begin to crumble when the real concept of family is destroyed because that is our building block. The 2nd amendment was set forth to protect ourselves from both foreign and domestic harm. That is invading nations, out of control governments like the one we see today and criminal assailants. God bless all who read this.

  • @themanwhosucksatgames3078
    @themanwhosucksatgames30784 жыл бұрын

    I’m Puerto Rican, and I can say this everything in this video it’s true, you literally cannot go outside at night. Every government official in the island may have ties to the local mafia or cartel

  • @Ivan-bd2fb
    @Ivan-bd2fb3 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh the sound of coquis, insects, and automatic fire ❤ another beautiful night in my home island🙏

  • @edwincosme3543
    @edwincosme35435 жыл бұрын

    Anybody Else Notiçe How He Put His Finger Prints All On The Guns😂

  • @hangtowngunner218
    @hangtowngunner2188 жыл бұрын

    Im I the only one that wishes that firearms evidence locker was my personal gunsafe?

  • @SeikoXIII
    @SeikoXIII3 жыл бұрын

    I can confirm this being Puertorican and living in Bayamon.

  • @Strictdhe
    @Strictdhe4 жыл бұрын

    2:56

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