Of Arms and the Law

Navigation
About Me
Contact Me
Archives
XML Feed
Home


Law Review Articles
Firearm Owner's Protection Act
Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies
2nd Amendment & Historiography
The Lecture Notes of St. George Tucker
Original Popular Understanding of the 14th Amendment
Originalism and its Tools


2nd Amendment Discussions

1982 Senate Judiciary Comm. Report
2004 Dept of Justice Report
US v. Emerson (5th Cir. 2001)

Click here to join the NRA (or renew your membership) online! Special discount: annual membership $25 (reg. $35) for a great magazine and benefits.

Recommended Websites
Ammo.com, deals on ammunition
Scopesfield: rifle scope guide
Ohioans for Concealed Carry
Clean Up ATF (heartburn for headquarters)
Concealed Carry Today
Knives Infinity, blades of all types
Buckeye Firearms Association
NFA Owners' Association
Leatherman Multi-tools And Knives
The Nuge Board
Dave Kopel
Steve Halbrook
Gunblog community
Dave Hardy
Bardwell's NFA Page
2nd Amendment Documentary
Clayton Cramer
Constitutional Classics
Law Reviews
NRA news online
Sporting Outdoors blog
Blogroll
Instapundit
Upland Feathers
Instapunk
Volokh Conspiracy
Alphecca
Gun Rights
Gun Trust Lawyer NFA blog
The Big Bore Chronicles
Good for the Country
Knife Rights.org
Geeks with Guns
Hugh Hewitt
How Appealing
Moorewatch
Moorelies
The Price of Liberty
Search
Email Subscription
Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

 

Credits
Powered by Movable Type 6.8.3
Site Design by Sekimori

« Gun Mfr. liability protection act | Main | Brady Campaign vows suit against mfr protection bill »

Referendum on gun sales ban in Brazil

Posted by David Hardy · 21 October 2005 09:06 AM

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting on the Brazilian referendum to limit (the article is unclear just how, but significantly) gun sales. It sounds as if gun sales would be limited to hunters, collectors, etc., and those with a stiff registration fee and paperwork requirements.

The article reports the polls are going back and forth, starting with a big majority for "yes" and now with a majority for "no."

Interesting notes: Brazil's population (122 million according to this article, 162 million reported elsewhere) is somewhat under a third that of the US, and its estimated gun density (17 million) is somewhat under a tenth of ours. Yet its homicide rate is twice ours (and the article notes, Venezuela's rate is higher. That's just south America -- as I've noted, all the former Soviet republics have much higher homicide rates than the US, a fact not apparent when they were USSR, since the Soviet government deliberately under-reported. I think the claim that the US has an unusually high homicide rates is steadily failing.

[UPDATE: The Mercury interviewed Brady Campaign on it. It describes the ban as "banning the sales of guns and bullets to almost all civilians." It then reports: "U.S. gun-control advocates could use Brazil as a test case for tighter laws, although not a total ban, said Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which advocates tougher gun restrictions."

(1) Once again, Brady shows its only real agenda is "anything that restricts gun ownership" -- including in this case complete or near-complete bans on rifles and (2) in light of this, its support for the DC ban, etc., Brady will find it harder and harder to argue that it only favors "reasonable limitations" on handguns.]

· non-US

1 Comment

Victoria | October 22, 2005 7:33 PM

Hey David.

I was doing a Blogger search of this story, when I found yours.

My Saturday post also refers to Brazil's Gun Referendum, in case of interest. :)

Cheers,
Victoria