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On Friday (12), the federal government issued a “package of changes” in the 2019 decrees that regulate the purchase of weapons and ammunition by security agents, snipers and weapon collectors. According to the Planalto Palace, the measures relax limits for the purchase and stock of weapons and cartridges.
The changes were announced at the end of the night, on the eve of Carnival, and had not been published in the “Official Gazette” until the publication of this report. According to the government, an additional edition should be published by the end of Friday.
The modifications include, according to a text released by the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic:
- increase the maximum number of weapons from four to six use allowed for people with firearms registration certificate;
- possibility of Replace the technical capacity report, required by the Legislation for Gatherers, Snipers and Hunters (CAC) – by a “certificate of custom” issued by clubs or firearms;
- permission for Registered snipers and hunters buy up to 60 and 30 guns, respectively, without the need for express authorization from the Army;
- increase, from 1,000 to 2,000, in the amount of Refills of cartridges of restricted caliber that can buy the “athletes” by year.
4 min Documents show the government ignored the studies by repealing gun control ordinances in 2020
Documents show the government ignored the studies by repealing gun control ordinances in 2020
The documents show that the Army gathered technical and legal studies to prepare the ordinances that increased gun control in Brazil. Ordinances that were repealed by President Jair Bolsonaro in April, and five months later, the Army has yet to publish new rules.
In the disseminated material, the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic indicates that the measures are aimed at “reducing the bureaucracy of procedures”, “reducing the discretion of public authorities” in granting records and adjusting the purchase limits to the “amount necessary for the exercise of the rights and the fulfillment of the institutional mission of the authorized categories” to the possession and possession.
