Bolsonaro signs a decree facilitating the possession of firearms | New

At the signing ceremony, Jair Bolsonaro said that the decree facilitating the possession of weapons, a promise of his campaign, responded to a request from the population: "The population decided to buy weapons and ammunition and we can not deny what people wanted at that time.Throughout my career in Brazil in recent years, the gun issue has always been on the agenda. "

The Text modifies one of the requirements of the old decree: the proof of the actual need. "And the big problem that we had in law is the proof of the actual need, which bordered on subjectivity, then, well sewn by the Minister Sergio Moro, by his minister and by Fernando, of the Defense, among others, we came to the conclusion that we had to know not to dribble but to do justice to this device provided by the law so that the citizen can, then, indiscriminately, be able to obtain, by observing other criteria, the possession of his firearm "said the president.

The decree is already in force. The possession of a firearm, which is the right to keep it at home or at work, provided that the person is legally responsible for the site, is released in rural areas and in urban areas experiencing a rate of high violence – more than ten homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants.

In the preliminary text, this reduction was valid for municipalities, which excluded municipalities in 2015 below this index. But the president made changes to the text: he replaced the municipalities with states.

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

To obtain possession of the vehicle, you must be at least 25 years old, take a shooting course, psychological evidence, employment, permanent residence and have no criminal record.

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

To dispose of a firearm in a home that accommodates children, adolescents or persons with a mental disability, it is necessary to declare oneself as having a safe or a safe place equipped with a lock to store the weapon.

The minutes of the federal police were worth five years. With the decree, this period has been increased to ten years. In addition, the President has automatically renewed all certificates of registration of weapons issued prior to the decree. That is, who already has permission will not need to renew for the next decade.

In an interview with GloboNews, Minister Onyx Lorenzoni of the Civil House declared that allowing the possession of a weapon by the population allowed to fight against violence: "All experience of humanity shows, without denying these proofs, that the more the population is armed, the less violence there is ".

In the afternoon, Onyx Lorenzoni compared the risk of a home weapon to that of a child with the risk of getting hurt with a blender. The statement was made without the presence of cameras: "You see a little child put a finger in the blender and turn on the blender and lose a finger." "So we will ban mixers?" "No. It's a matter of education, it's a problem.In the case of the weapon, it's the same thing."

The formalized decision Tuesday (15) by the president is constitutional. This is changing the policy of possession of weapons in Brazil, which is more restrictive and now widely accessible.

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

The decree clearly states that the possession of weapons is prohibited to anyone with links to criminal organizations, who is lying about the actual need or who is acting in the place of someone who does not fulfill the required conditions.

The president announced Tuesday that he was to complete the decree by publishing an interim measure. The Civil House said that the MP should leave at the end of January and would serve to regularize the registration of weapons.

Onyx Lorenzoni reported that today, in Brazil, up to 9 million families have an irregular gun in their homes and can go to the federal police to regularize their firearms.