# Does Venezuelan Weapons Ban Seem Extreme To Anyone Else? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 15, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892 "2006-05-15T21:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/21 "2006-05-16T13:15:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > interrogator sets ??? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/22 "2006-05-16T15:10:24Z")
> [@CBEscapee](#): > > ??? Probably a bit like erector sets…but with battery terminals and nipple clamps. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/23 "2006-05-16T15:31:06Z")
Usually, interrogator sets are part of “friend or foe” radar. It’s the bit that sends out the signal to the other plane/boat/whatever, asking for identifying information, and then receives that information. I don’t know if that’s what we sold them, even though in the context of the article, it doesn’t look like it. Although, maybe the reporter found out we sold them “interrogator sets” and assumed it was for policing, so lumped it in with riot gear. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/24 "2006-05-17T21:37:23Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > Wasn’t Saddam “democratically elected”? Yeh . . . but Chavez was democratically elected without the quote marks. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/25 "2006-05-17T21:42:52Z")
> [@slaphead](#): > > Why is it amusing when some tinpot leader with an overweening ego goes around trying to score political points by dispensing largesse abroad while most of his fellow citizens are living in poverty? Well, poverty in the U.S. is a worse problem than the official figures suggest, but I wouldn’t say **most** Americans are living in poverty . . . Oh, you meant Chavez! As it happens, he’s distributing plenty of largesse at home, too. [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050411/parenti](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050411/parenti) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/26 "2006-05-18T00:18:55Z")
So, did we ever figure out how many weapons were being sold to Venezuela in the first place? Is this embargo symbolic or not? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/27 "2006-05-18T00:20:12Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > So, did we ever figure out how many weapons were being sold to Venezuela in the first place? See post #18. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892/28 "2006-05-18T00:48:38Z")
Ah, thanks. I read it when it was originally posted, but forgot all about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-venezuelan-weapons-ban-seem-extreme-to-anyone-else/356892.md?page=1)