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Brazil's Bolsonaro signs decree further easing gun rules

Brazil's president has made it easier for people to get their hands on foreign guns and carry more ammunition. Supporters say it will help people defend themselves in a country plagued by endemic violence.





Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro (center) surrounded by lawmakers while signing the decree to relax gun laws in May 7 (Getty ImagesAFP/E. Sa)


Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday that loosens restrictions on gun imports and allows people to carry more ammunition.

"Public security starts inside your home," he said as lawmakers who observed him sign the order cheered and made gun gestures with their hands.

Previously, people were barred from importing guns if a domestic manufacturer produced a similar weapon.

Read more: Brazilians struggle to escape violence in Rio de Janeiro

"We broke the monopoly," Bolsonaro said. "You couldn't import, and now we have ended this."

The order also increases the standard limit on purchases of ammunition from 50 cartridges per year for normal firearms to a maximum of 5,000 cartridges per year. Up to 1,000 cartridges can also now be bought for large-caliber and semi-automatic weapons.



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An initial version of the decree only made it easier for collectors and hunters to travel with their guns. That provision also made it into the expanded, final draft.


Read more: Brazil: Army takes control of Rio security in bid to quash gang violence


The president, who campaigned for weaker gun laws as a candidate last year, signed a decree in January that lifted several restrictions on gun ownership.


Supporters say the moves will help Brazilians defend themselves amid rising crime rates. Brazil's murder rate is three times higher than the level considered by the United Nations to be endemic violence.


Tuesday's order will take effect in early June.


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president should empower their citizens to protect themselves and this is how you do it.

DON'T ASK WHAT YOUR GOVT CAN DO FOR YOU. ASK WHAT YOU WILL DO TO SAVE YOUR ASS ON THE STREET INSTEAD OF RELYING ON COPS WHO IS ABOUT TO ROB YOU WHO IS ALSO AFFILIATED WITH GANGSTERS AND DRUG MULES.
 
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Crichax said:
If only we had a politician that combined the good side of Bolsonaro and...not being an extremist against Native Americans.
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I did some quick poking around:

“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.” Correio Braziliense newspaper, April 12, 1998
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Well that was 20 years ago he must have matured since then...

“The Indians do not speak our language, they do not have money, they do not have culture. They are native peoples. How did they manage to get 13% of the national territory”
Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015
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Oh...guess not.

I never did a deep dive on Brazil but the guy that preceded Bolsonaro must have been a real turd to have people overlook statements like these. Trump has said some shit but mostly it is taken out of context. I don't see how you can put these statements in a context that doesn't make them worse.

Or is Brazil just super bigotted against the indigenous population?
 
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SmileyTimeDayCare said:
I did some quick poking around:



Well that was 20 years ago he must have matured since then...



Oh...guess not.

I never did a deep dive on Brazil but the guy that preceded Bolsonaro must have been a real turd to have people overlook statements like these. Trump has said some shit but mostly it is taken out of context. I don't see how you can put these statements in a context that doesn't make them worse.

Or is Brazil just super bigotted against the indigenous population?
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In Brazil giving land to indigenous people is a really hot topic. See, the issue is that there are laws protecting the indigenous people, which claim to be hunter-gatherers. What that means is that land that is given to them cannot be improved on at all, in any way, shape, or form, unless it is done by the Indians. The Indians also do shit like drive SUVs to Brasilia to protest because "they are hunter gatherers and therefore need a lot of land and their population is expanding so they need even more." They will unironically claim this while wearing jeans and smoking cigarettes before getting back into their jeep to drive back to their reservation. So you have an extremely tiny minority that aren't beholden to normal laws that control a huge portion of the country and therefore massive amounts of natural resources all the while blatantly lying about what they're using the land for.

It's an extremely complicated subject and it is disingenuous to brush it off as "dey Brazilians raciss"
 
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It’s a very difficult issue. People claim that it’ll be easier for criminals to get guns, but it’s already easy for them anyway. You walk around São Paulo, the “best” city in Brazil, and you get robbed by a thug with a pistol. In Rio, the thug uses a rifle instead, and Rio isn’t even the most dangerous city in Brazil. Even if a lot of people are against it, the most they’ll do is post memes making fun of Bolsonaro or making twitter threads criticizing him, but that doesn’t do anything anyway.

ABout the natives, yeah, you get a lot of farmers stealing their territory and killing them. There are >1 million natives in the country now but the general population (200 million people) don’t care or just aren’t aware of the problem.
 
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edibleBulimia said:
It’s a very difficult issue. People claim that it’ll be easier for criminals to get guns, but it’s already easy for them anyway. You walk around São Paulo, the “best” city in Brazil, and you get robbed by a thug with a pistol. In Rio, the thug uses a rifle instead, and Rio isn’t even the most dangerous city in Brazil. Even if a lot of people are against it, the most they’ll do is post memes making fun of Bolsonaro or making twitter threads criticizing him, but that doesn’t do anything anyway.
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The favelas have made an art of this shit. This is just the local made stuff not even the stole, or smuggled good shit. Also reminder that the BOPE is just as bad as the cartels at times.

https://homemadeguns.wordpress.com/tag/brazil/

So many Taruas jokes too.
 
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There's a reason "Brazilian-Made Firearm" is right up there with "Chinese-Made Car Part"

Though I do support the fact it ought to be a fair fight, everyone should have access to shit guns if they're going to exist anyway.... an open public market may even improve QC a bit.
 
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TowinKarz said:
There's a reason "Brazilian-Made Firearm" is right up there with "Chinese-Made Car Part"

Though I do support the fact it ought to be a fair fight, everyone should have access to shit guns if they're going to exist anyway.... an open public market may even improve QC a bit.
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I just think it's funny that those favela-Lutys are aping Ingram MAC10s. I mean, a real MAC10 looks damn near Luty-tier, to be fair, so whatever.
 
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SmileyTimeDayCare said:
I never did a deep dive on Brazil but the guy that preceded Bolsonaro must have been a real turd to have people overlook statements like these. Trump has said some shit but mostly it is taken out of context. I don't see how you can put these statements in a context that doesn't make them worse.

Or is Brazil just super bigotted against the indigenous population?
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South American politicians say a lot of shit about their indigenous population, either joking or just as a freudian slip. At the end, they end up doing things that help them to improve their lives a bit or simply ignored them completely. I've seen both.

Except Maduro who just went and murder a whole indigenous community who protested him.
 
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