Bolsonaro signs decree that facilitates possession of a weapon

Text increases the situations that can prove the effective necessity of possession of a weapon and the validity of the registry made in the Federal Police from five to ten years.
15/01/2019 21h03 Updated one day ago

Bolsonaro signs decree that facilitates possession of a weapon


President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Tuesday (15) that facilitates the possession of a weapon throughout the country.

At the signing ceremony, Jair Bolsonaro said that the decree facilitating the possession of weapons, a promise of his campaign, met a request of the population: "The people decided to buy weapons and ammunition and we can not deny what the people wanted that moment. Throughout my career in Brazil over the last few years, the issue of the gun was always on the agenda. "

The text changes one of the requirements of the previous decree: the proof of the effective necessity. "And the great problem we had in the law is the proof of effective necessity, and that bordered on subjectivity. Then, well sewn by Minister Sergio Moro, by his minister also Fernando, of the Defense, and among others, we came to the conclusion that we had but how not to dribble, but to do justice with this device provided in the law so that the citizen could, then, without discretion, being able to obtain, by observing some other criteria, the possession of his firearm, "declared the president.

The decree is already in force. Gun ownership, which is the right to keep the gun at home or at work, provided the person is legally responsible for the site, is released in rural areas and in urban areas that have high rates of violence - more than ten homicides to every 100 thousand inhabitants.

In the preliminary text, this cut was worth to the municipalities, which excluded 2015 municipalities that were below that index. But the president made changes in the text: he replaced municipalities by states.

In Brazil, all states reach this index, according to the Atlas of Violence, produced by the Institute of Applied Economic Research and the Brazilian Forum of Public Security. Therefore, possession of weapons will be possible in all Brazilian cities.

To obtain possession you must be at least 25 years old, shooting course, prove psychological aptitude, have employment, permanent residence and have no criminal record.

You can have up to four weapons at home or at work, as long as you own the facility. If the person proves that he needs a larger number because, for example, he has several properties, he may have more weapons.

To have a gun in a home that has children, teenagers or people with mental disabilities, it is necessary to declare to have a safe or a safe place, with a lock, to store the weapon.

The registration made at the Federal Police was worth five years. With the decree, this term increased to ten years. What's more, the president automatically renewed all existing weapons registration certificates issued prior to the decree. That is, who already has the authorization will not need to renew for the next decade.

In an interview with GloboNews, Minister Onyx Lorenzoni of the Civil House said that authorizing the possession of a weapon for the population helps in the fight against violence: "The whole experience of mankind shows, without any failure to deny this evidence, that the more armed the population, the less violence. "

In the afternoon, Onyx Lorenzoni compared the risk of a weapon at home to a child with the risk of her getting hurt with a blender. The statement was made without the presence of cameras: "You see a small child put a finger in the blender and turn on the blender and lose his little finger." "So we're going to ban the blenders?" "No. It's a matter of education, it's an issue. In the case of the weapon, it is the same thing. "

The decision formalized on Tuesday (15) by the president is constitutional. It changes the policy of possession of arms in Brazil, which is more restrictive, now widely accessible.

The Brazilian Public Security Forum criticized the measure. "All the available scientific evidence indicates that the more weapons, the more crimes in society, and secondly, because we have a very fragile firearms control system in the country, which greatly increases the possibility of deviations within the system, "says researcher David Marques.

The decree makes clear that possession of weapons is prohibited for anyone with links to criminal organizations, lying about the actual need or acting in place of someone who does not meet the requirements.

The president announced on Tuesday that he should supplement the decree with the issuance of a provisional measure. The Civil House said that the MP should leave at the end of January and will serve to regularize the registration of weapons.

Onyx Lorenzoni said that today there are up to 9 million families in Brazil who have a gun at home irregularly and can go to the Federal Police to regularize their weapon.

In Congress, according to the Minister of the Civil Household, Onyx Lorenzoni, the government will work to rush to vote for another measure: the carrying of weapons in rural areas. According to him, the rural estate has already passed the House and is now being processed in the Senate.



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