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Bolsonaro son lobbies for gun ads bill
The House’s Public Security Committee could vote on a bill today allowing gun producers to advertise their products without restriction on any medium. Since 2003 and the approval of Brazil’s Disarmament Statute passed, gun ads can only run in specialized publications.
Why it matters. The bill is penned by Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president’s third-eldest son, and is part of the Bolsonaros’ relentless pursuit of scrapping Brazil’s gun control legislation.
- Between 2019 and 2021, the Jair Bolsonaro administration promoted 31 changes to the country’s gun access policies, per Sou da Paz, a gun policy watchdog.
- Sou da Paz claims these changes have created “normative chaos.”
By the numbers. Numbers gathered by Fiquem Sabendo shows that the average number of licensed weapons in Brazil jumped from 37,000 between 2009 and...