{"id":92602,"date":"2023-05-09T04:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92602"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:30:49","slug":"92602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92602","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrants is as Tyrants does<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/the-next-step-brazils-new-left-wing-government-threatens-to-seize-guns-civilians-didnt-register\/\">The Next Step: Brazil\u2019s New Left Wing Government Threatens to Seize Guns Civilians Didn\u2019t Register.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We cannot let our guard down. Unfortunately, the situation is not easy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With Lula in power, we left a dream of freedom to move to a unique and exclusive defense of jobs, of people who invested in the arms sector. We are now talking about bailing out jobs<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">COME AND TAKE IT!<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e3o podemos baixar a guarda.Infelizmente a situa\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o \u00e9 f\u00e1cil.<\/p>\n<p>Com Lula no poder, deixamos um sonho de liberdade p\/ passar para uma defesa \u00fanica e exclusiva dos empregos, do pessoal que investiu no setor de armas. Estamos agora falando em socorrer empregos + <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hssZ5fqzIM\">pic.twitter.com\/hssZ5fqzIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J\u00falia Zanatta (@apropriajulia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apropriajulia\/status\/1636831095818711044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Schmidt just made the deadline, arriving at Federal Police headquarters in the center of Rio de Janeiro with a travel bag carrying a golden pistol and seven rifles, one peeking out of the zipper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in love with guns,\u201d said Schmidt. \u201cI\u2019d have over 2,000 if the government allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had already registered his firearms with the army, as required by law for sport shooters like him, but experts have cast doubt on the reliability of its database, and said lax oversight has allowed such guns to fall into criminal hands. Schmidt was adding his guns to the police registry Wednesday on the final day to comply with a decree by Brazil\u2019s new left-wing president \u2014 or face confiscation.<\/p>\n<p>Over four years in office, former President Jair Bolsonaro tried to convert a country with few weapons into one where firearm ownership and lack of regulation meant personal freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his successor Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva has been moving to undo Bolsonaro\u2019s pro-gun policies, and that started with requiring gun owners to register their weapons with police. After initial resistance, he started seeing success.<\/p>\n<p>But more than 6,000 restricted-use guns previously registered with the army, and which include \u201cassault rifles,\u201d were not presented to police by the May 3 deadline, Justice Minister Fl\u00e1vio Dino told reporters Thursday. Those are likely to have been diverted to criminals, and are now targets for investigation and potential seizure, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Brazil\u2019s last gun-control campaign, in 2003, Brazilians were invited to turn in their guns and receive a symbolic payment from the state. It boasted a high level of participation.<\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of right-wing Bolsonaro, however, the disarmament statute was a historic blunder. Echoing aspects of American conservativism, he was the first Brazilian presidential candidate to campaign on a pro-gun platform, saying \u201cgood citizens\u201d are entitled to firearms to protect their families and assets. He altered the rules for how much ammunition one can possess and access to restricted guns. He repeatedly claimed that \u201can armed populace will never be enslaved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instituto Sou da Paz, a non-profit that monitors public security, estimates that the number of guns in civilian hands nearly tripled \u2014 to 2.2 million in a country of 214 million people \u2014 under Bolsonaro. It remains far lower than in the United States and Brazil has no constitutional right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had sharp growth in firearm access, including restricted-use weapons,\u201d Michele dos Ramos, who is leading the workgroup in charge of gun policy within the Justice Ministry, told the AP by phone. \u201cIn order to write any guidelines to restructure gun and ammunition policies and regulations, it is important we have a diagnosis of the situation of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his first day in office, Lula issued a decree requiring gun owners to register their weapons with the Federal Police and the original deadline was delayed by a month. At Rio\u2019s Federal Police headquarters, officers have registered guns belonging to as many as 50 people per day.<\/p>\n<p>But people had been wary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of concern primarily at the beginning when they arrived here. They believed we were going to confiscate their guns,\u201d Marcelo Daemon, the head of the Rio police\u2019s department overseeing arms control, said in an interview in his office. \u201cA lot of fake news circulated on social media and people came here with fear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrants is as Tyrants does The Next Step: Brazil\u2019s New Left Wing Government Threatens to Seize Guns Civilians Didn\u2019t Register. We cannot let our guard down. Unfortunately, the situation is not easy. 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