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 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.

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"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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[Agent of Z.O.G.]

He knows he doesn't need to worry about guns since he studies the blade.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash

 

[Caddchef]

Actually not sure how that one is supposed to work. Basic nigga-rigged pipe shotgun but in a sledge handle?

It's like an anti-material rifle except instead of shooting through the wall you make a small hole in it with the hammer then fire through.

 

[Ashen One]

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.

Since the thread has already been bumped:

Yes, he was a turd but just to give you an idea of what happened for Bolsonaro to be elected.

President Lula from the Worker's Party finished his second term in 2010, and Dilma Rousseff, the person he picked to be his successor, was elected after him. During the time Dilma was president, one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country (Operation Car Wash) ended up coming to light, heavily implicating that Lula did a ton of shady illegal shit (as if every brazilian politician doesn't do that but I digress).

Dilma herself wasn't as liked as her predecessor, and the scandal caused an anti-Worker's Party movement to gain traction, so her association with Lula made her become very unpopular (with good reason, she was the continuation of his presidency no matter how you look at it). This culminated in her getting impeached and removed because she broke some random law nobody ever gave a shit about. In truth it was a pretty blatant power grab by her Vice President, Michel Temer, and Dilma was unpopular enough at that point that everyone just kinda allowed it to happen and pretended to give a shit about the law she broke (it was something to do with money, but wasn't even embezzlement or anything of the sort).

After that we got Michel Temer as president, and he managed to be unpopular as fuck (reaching incredible 83% rejection rates at points). He wasn't elected, so people already kinda disliked him being in power. He made many unpopular decisions when governing and Operation Car Wash kept reminding everyone almost daily of just how deep the corruption went in our government (including the now president himself). He knew better than to try for a reelection, so he stepped back after his presidency was over.

Then comes the 2018 elections with Bolsonaro being the right wing candidate, and the left wing one being Fernando Haddad. Fernando was also from the Workers' Party. The same party which was balls deep into the still-ongoing corruption scandal, and made the previous elected president unpopular enough that she got impeached.

Bolsonaro promised to crack down harder on violence, corruption and all that jazz, which a lot of people loved to hear because the general feeling at the moment was "nobody gets punished for breaking the law". The presidential race was pretty balanced all things considered, but during one event Bolsonaro got stabbed by a knife-wielding crazy guy and his side used that to the max to garner publicity and sympathy for him. In the end Bolsonaro got elected because he promised to uphold the law and punish people who broke it, and turned an attempt on his life into popularity during the election period.

He's not doing what he promised and is breaking laws himself, yes, but such is the state of brazilian politics. I would define the guy as "Trump, but if he was as dumb, corrupt and power-hungry as CNN makes him out to be". Currently he is being accused of forcing a change in the General Director of the Federal Police because the police was investigating his sons for corruption.

Do take this post with a grain of salt since it's mostly my opinion and point of view about what happened.

 

[nya001]

Since the thread has already been bumped:

Yes, he was a turd but just to give you an idea of what happened for Bolsonaro to be elected.

President Lula from the Worker's Party finished his second term in 2010, and Dilma Rousseff, the person he picked to be his successor, was elected after him. During the time Dilma was president, one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country (Operation Car Wash) ended up coming to light, heavily implicating that Lula did a ton of shady illegal shit (as if every brazilian politician doesn't do that but I digress).

Dilma herself wasn't as liked as her predecessor, and the scandal caused an anti-Worker's Party movement to gain traction, so her association with Lula made her become very unpopular (with good reason, she was the continuation of his presidency no matter how you look at it). This culminated in her getting impeached and removed because she broke some random law nobody ever gave a shit about. In truth it was a pretty blatant power grab by her Vice President, Michel Temer, and Dilma was unpopular enough at that point that everyone just kinda allowed it to happen and pretended to give a shit about the law she broke (it was something to do with money, but wasn't even embezzlement or anything of the sort).

After that we got Michel Temer as president, and he managed to be unpopular as fuck (reaching incredible 83% rejection rates at points). He wasn't elected, so people already kinda disliked him being in power. He made many unpopular decisions when governing and Operation Car Wash kept reminding everyone almost daily of just how deep the corruption went in our government (including the now president himself). He knew better than to try for a reelection, so he stepped back after his presidency was over.

Then comes the 2018 elections with Bolsonaro being the right wing candidate, and the left wing one being Fernando Haddad. Fernando was also from the Workers' Party. The same party which was balls deep into the still-ongoing corruption scandal, and made the previous elected president unpopular enough that she got impeached.

Bolsonaro promised to crack down harder on violence, corruption and all that jazz, which a lot of people loved to hear because the general feeling at the moment was "nobody gets punished for breaking the law". The presidential race was pretty balanced all things considered, but during one event Bolsonaro got stabbed by a knife-wielding crazy guy and his side used that to the max to garner publicity and sympathy for him. In the end Bolsonaro got elected because he promised to uphold the law and punish people who broke it, and turned an attempt on his life into popularity during the election period.

He's not doing what he promised and is breaking laws himself, yes, but such is the state of brazilian politics. I would define the guy as "Trump, but if he was as dumb, corrupt and power-hungry as CNN makes him out to be". Currently he is being accused of forcing a change in the General Director of the Federal Police because the police was investigating his sons for corruption.

Do take this post with a grain of salt since it's mostly my opinion and point of view about what happened.

Also it's like as if in Brazil people can't pay cooperating policeman and get a gun or a permit. The price varies from place to place. If people really want to get one they can, they just have to pay.

The various state military polices (not equivalent to the US MP, they are called military police but are not the police of the armed forces) are often found selling weapons, taking bribes and drug traffickers have dance parties carrying forbidden weapons etc.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Apparently Lula wants to take away people's guns if he wins lol, even though it lowered the crime rate.

 

[Ow The Edge]

Apparently Lula wants to take away people's guns if he wins lol, even though it lowered the crime rate.

He's a leftist. High crime rates are a feature not a bug as far as he's concerned.