UN Brazil's Bolsonaro signs decree further easing gun rules

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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.


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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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So, there nowhere to found on internet, not in English at least, but Bolsonaro called for a pro-government protest in the next Saturday, there is a huge chance that he could use this to do a self-coup, but if the protest ending up being a absolute failure there a huge chance that he resign or be impeached.

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Sprig of Parsley said:
Actually not sure how that one is supposed to work. Basic nigger-rigged pipe shotgun but in a sledge handle?
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It could be just so that it looks innocuous propped up in a garage corner and wouldn't draw suspicion, form over function, because those chunky welding beads don't scream confidence that whoever made it intended to ever use it as a hammer. And I'll bet you're supposed to use that hammer-end as the buttstock, and I'd imagine that's far from comfortable when it kicks into your shoulder.
 
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So, there nowhere to found on internet, not in English at least, but Bolsonaro called for a pro-government protest in the next Saturday, there is a huge chance that he could use this to do a self-coup, but if the protest ending up being a absolute failure there a huge chance that he resign or be impeached.

Heard this first on a site documented towards making fun of autists.
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The protests are happening because the congress are full of mongoloids that can't organize themselves for a goddamn voting process, moderate/centrists started throwing shit on all directions and the proposals made by Bolsonaro's ministers are stuck for over 4 months, we got to the point of members of Bolsonaro's political party stabbing each other just for the idea of the" true and honest right" , as for the possible results of this protest, resignment and self-coup are very unlikely, as for impeachment, I won't discard that possibility, but it won't be that simple.
 
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Crippled Eagle said:
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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Brazil also bans farming on indigenous land (from what I've heard) and allows mining, which seems fairly arbitrary and unfair to me.
 
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It's not arbitrary if you think about it, I get a feeling mineral exploitation is several magnitudes more profitable than low-density tenant farming. If the government is going to allow anything to happen, they'd obviously rather it be something that makes a non-negligible amount of tax revenue.
 
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