Guns in Brazil: The Ambiguity in the Discussion Between Legalization Control and Trafficking Violations

Nelmo dos Santos Passos

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Guns in Brazil: The Ambiguity in the Discussion Between Legalization Control and Trafficking Violations

Nelmo dos Santos Passos

Published in International Journal of Science, Technology and Society (Volume 11, Issue 2)

Received: 10 August 2022 Accepted: 30 August 2022 Published: 16 March 2023

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Abstract

Brazil has been attacked by a set of threats to the security of its population which expresses the feeling of insecurity and fear, an effect of the visible increase in crime that foolishly imposes a condition of vulnerability on the whole society. In this narrative, it seeks to understand the dynamics that revolve around so many weapons circulating in Brazilian national territory, displayed without any shame in a visible way by criminals and used by them in profuse illegal actions throughout the country. Along with this problem, there is the discussion of the Disarmament Statute, created with the justification of reducing violence committed with firearms. A controversial subject and insistent in polemicizing the real effect of the federal law n° 10.826/2003 in its (in)efficiency on the control of the weapons. What weapons did they envision controlling? It is legitimate that the criminal will always be able to carry a firearm, as his main means of acquiring weapons, the illegal trade, is separate from this belligerence. The Disarmament Statute, the decrees issued by the head of the federal executive with new rules for access to firearms and ammunition in the country and arms trafficking, are issues that gain political and ideological contours that are confused in ambiguous debates without reaching resolution of the “illegal weapons” problem.

Published in	International Journal of Science, Technology and Society (Volume 11, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijsts.20231102.13
Page(s)	51-61
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Weapons, Disarmament, Traffic, Violence

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Nelmo dos Santos Passos. Guns in Brazil: The Ambiguity in the Discussion Between Legalization Control and Trafficking Violations. Int J Sci Technol Soc. 2023;11(2):51-61. doi: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20231102.13

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