Hey Paul, does this have any effect on you?<\/p>\n
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella Loosens Restrictions on Being Armed for Self-Defense<\/a><\/p>\n Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella issued a decree loosening a decades old restriction on carrying firearms in public for self-defense.<\/p>\n BBC\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the restriction had barred \u201ceven those in possession of a permit to carry guns\u201d from being armed in public without first acquiring \u201cadditional authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n The restriction on carrying guns in public, even for self-defense, began in December 2015 under\u00a0then-President Juan Manuel Santos.<\/p>\n As De la Espriella campaigned for the presidency, he pledged to be tough on crime. He believes ensuring law-abiding citizens can be armed for self-defense is part of fulfilling that promise.<\/p>\n He said it is \u201cnot right that criminals are armed to the teeth while decent people can\u2019t defend themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n On September 8, 2026, De la Espriella\u00a0posted<\/a> to X, \u201cFor years, citizens who obey the law were restricted while criminals continued arming themselves to the teeth illegally. That has to change.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon signing the decree, De la Espriella also made clear that law enforcement will continue to rigorously pursue and disarm the criminal element in Colombian society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Paul, does this have any effect on you? Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella Loosens Restrictions on Being Armed for Self-Defense Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella issued a decree loosening a decades old restriction on carrying firearms in public for self-defense. BBC\u00a0reported\u00a0that the restriction had barred \u201ceven those in possession of a permit … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118719,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118718\/revisions\/118719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}