Brazil’s President Rolls Back Pro-Gun Decrees

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has made headlines in the United States in part for his rare appreciation for gun rights. Outside of this country, firearm rights are considered non-existent. While gun rights are second-class rights here in the U.S., they’re not granted that status in other nations.

Earlier this year, Bolsonaro issued a pro-gun decree that would have drastically changed the landscape of gun rights in his crime-ridden South American nation.

Unfortunately for both him and the Brazilian people, the decree met stiff opposition, enough so that Bolsonaro opted to roll some of it back.

President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday pulled back on part of a decree that eases rules on firearm possession in Brazil, after widespread criticism from politicians, judges and civic groups that a measure on semi-automatic rifles would increase violence in one of the world’s most violent countries.

The government published a new decree that reverses or tightens some parts of a May 7 order signed by Bolsonaro, but much of the original remains intact and the new decree further expands the list of those allowed to carry high-caliber handguns.

The affected provisions would have allowed all people with gun licenses to carry more powerful weapons, including …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms