O acesso às armas de fogo no Brasil

Abstract

This is an authorial essay on the possession and carry of firearms in Brazil in 2021.Owning and carrying firearms in Brazil today, even with the issuing of decrees by the current President of the Republic that facilitate access to weapons, is difficult, expensive and bureaucratic. Inheritance of years of left-wing governments that apparently defend civil disarmament as a solution to public security problems, but that, in fact, want to exercise profound control and social domination in order to perpetuate themselves in power, without running the risk of being deposed through an uprising or armed popular revolt. This paper will analyze the constitutional perspective of gun legislation and how this issue is dealt with in the US constitution (a country that has sufficient freedom of access to firearms) and in the constitution of Brazil (parents that have extremely restrictive weapons access laws) ). Subsequently, the reasons that lead a government to disarm its own people and how civil disarmament functions as an instrument of control and social domination by the government will be discussed. Ahead, a brief analysis will be made on how Law 10.826 / 2003 emerged, the “Disarmament Statute” and what are its characteristics. It will also provide an overview of current arms legislation in Brazil and an exhibition of recent data on the growing increase in firearms sales and the reduction in the number of homicides in the country, after the start of the Jair Messias Bolsonaro government.