Brazilian Police Criticize President’s Efforts to Mimic American Gun Policies
Brazil's top cops said Bolsonaro's efforts to weaken the country’s landmark firearms control law, including a major liberalization bill that is currently under discussion in the Senate would make it harder to police the country with the world's most murders.
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From 2018 to the present, the Brazilian federal police have issued eight formal institutional positions criticizing President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to weaken the country’s landmark firearms control law, including a major liberalization bill that is currently under discussion in the Senate and could enshrine in law his push to make Brazil a gun-toting nation like the United States, reports Reuters.
Brazil’s top cops said the proposals would make it harder to police the country with the world’s most murders. In 2019, Eder Rosa de Magalhaes, then head of firearms control for the federal police, was pushed out of his post after refusing to sign a pro-gun briefing to Congress. The number of Brazilians registering to own guns has surged sixfold since 2018 to nearly 700,000 and Bolsonaro hopes to hit 1 million CAC permits this year, saying the rise in guns has helped reduce the murder rate.
