Rudimentary weapons confiscated by the police are displayed during a news conference in Caracas. Venezuela's Interior and Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said about 1,800 firearms were seized this year in various operations in the Caracas metropolitan area as part of police efforts to combat crime.

A worker destroys a weapon confiscated by the police during a news conference in Caracas.

Weapons confiscated by the police are displayed during a news conference in Caracas.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck holds up a rocket launcher taken as part of a cache of weapons received as part of a weekend gun buyback program at Los Angeles Police headquarters in Los Angeles on Monday, May 14, 2012. The haul also included 791 handguns, 527 rifles, 302 shotguns, marking a four-year low. A local supermarket chain donated $200,000 in gift cards to give out in exchange for the guns.

A pile of guns is displayed at a news conference after an annual Gun Buyback Program which netted 1,673 firearms over the weekend, marking a four-year low shown at the Los Angeles Police headquarters in Los Angeles.

A MANPAD (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) missile is detonated along the shore, east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Dec. 11. A top U.S. official said that a team of U.S. and Libyan bomb-disposal specialists has secured about 5,000 surface-to-air missiles.

Teams from Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) collect unexploded weapons buried underground by the Gaddafi regime at a military base in Tajura, about 30 km (19 miles) east of Tripoli on November 16.

Teams from Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) collect unexploded weapons buried underground by the Gaddafi regime at a military base in Tajura, about 30 km (19 miles) east of Tripoli November 16, 2011.

Crates containing tank shells litter the desert near ammunition storage bunkers located in the desert, 62 miles south of Sirte, October 26, 2011.

Piles of ammunition is seen stored in a bunker 62 miles south of Sirte on October 26, 2011.

A Libyan man looks at a missile in a wooden crate in an ammunition storage bunker about 62miles south of Sirte on October 26, 2011, where at least 80 ammunition bunkers are believed to be located.

Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, examines anti-tank mines hidden in a peach orchard as Libyans examine unguarded weapons stockpiles from which sophisticated SA-24 and other shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) have disappeared on September 7, 2011 in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is trying to secure sites where loyalist forces of former Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi shifted ordnance away from military bases, to protect it from NATO airstrikes. The missing SAMs have raised concerns about the weapons falling into the hands of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb or regional rebel groups.

Libyans examine an unguarded weapons stockpile from which sophisticated SA-24 and other shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) have disappeared on September 7, 2011 in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is trying to secure sites where loyalist forces of former Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi shifted ordnance away from military bases, to protect it from NATO airstrikes. The missing SAMs have raised concerns about the weapons falling into the hands of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb or regional rebel groups.

The label of munitions marked incendiary charges gelatination powder, is seen inside a former Gadhafi Military base in Abu Shweicha, outskirts of Al Ajaylat, 120 km west of Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Libya Rebels have located warehouses housing large quantities of munitions, protective gear and weapon components.

Boxes of munitions are piled high inside one of the 5 warehouses as Libyan rebels check inside a former Gadhafi Military base in Abu Shweicha, outskirts of Al Ajaylat, 120 km west of Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Former rebels say they've taken some ammunition for the fight against supporters of Moammar Gadhafi, but U.S. officials and others express fears the weapons could fall into the wrong hands. The country's new leaders, who are struggling to establish a government, have failed to secure many of the caches, making them free game for looters, former rebel fighters or anyone with a truck to carry them away.