Well to be fair, it's a lot more complicated than that, when it comes to gun ownership some South American countries are incredibly based to the point it may surprise Americans generally. Brazil under Bolsonaro legalised the fuck out of gun ownership and as a result crime went down, it was only until recently the leftists took over that's potentially changed but I haven't seen if they've walked back private gun ownership yet.
Argentina and Uruguay are surprisingly based about private gun ownership, they might not let citizens outright own assault rifles and things like that but they're pretty open about revolvers, rifles etc. and there aren't any restrictions at all on things like crossbows. If you look up the laws in South America you can see the media reeeing about it which is automatically a good thing.
Legal gun ownership is not common among civilians. Brazil does have a massive number of LEOs who do carry guns off duty (hence all the "off duty Brazilian cop shoots robber" videos).
Legal guns are prohibitively expensive for the average Joe, and there are also relatively complicated legal hurdles to be dealt with if you want to purchase one. Also, there are many restrictions on what guns and calibers you can obtain (.22 LR for rifled long guns, 12Ga for smoothbore, and .38 spl / .380 ACP for handguns).
Bolsonaro had made it easier to purchase them legally and also lifted the caliber restrictions, but I think Lula has rolled back every single change that was made regarding this subject.
TL/DR: No, most Brazilian civilians don't have guns.
It's hard to find the ownership rate, but the article said 3 million guns in private hands out of 203 million people -- so not a high rate. Another thing said 800,000 gun owners.
Last time the Brazilians protested the government responded by threatening to have their version of social services take the protesters' kids away
I assume they don’t have guns there.
Oh they have lots of guns. At least their criminals do. City of God does a great job of showing what a wonderful place it is.
Well to be fair, it's a lot more complicated than that, when it comes to gun ownership some South American countries are incredibly based to the point it may surprise Americans generally. Brazil under Bolsonaro legalised the fuck out of gun ownership and as a result crime went down, it was only until recently the leftists took over that's potentially changed but I haven't seen if they've walked back private gun ownership yet.
Argentina and Uruguay are surprisingly based about private gun ownership, they might not let citizens outright own assault rifles and things like that but they're pretty open about revolvers, rifles etc. and there aren't any restrictions at all on things like crossbows. If you look up the laws in South America you can see the media reeeing about it which is automatically a good thing.
Hard to say no when a political party is the military. Even after the occupation in Argentina they have major sway.
These countries.. dont hear much about mass shootings, eh?
Legal gun ownership is not common among civilians. Brazil does have a massive number of LEOs who do carry guns off duty (hence all the "off duty Brazilian cop shoots robber" videos).
Legal guns are prohibitively expensive for the average Joe, and there are also relatively complicated legal hurdles to be dealt with if you want to purchase one. Also, there are many restrictions on what guns and calibers you can obtain (.22 LR for rifled long guns, 12Ga for smoothbore, and .38 spl / .380 ACP for handguns).
Bolsonaro had made it easier to purchase them legally and also lifted the caliber restrictions, but I think Lula has rolled back every single change that was made regarding this subject.
TL/DR: No, most Brazilian civilians don't have guns.
It's hard to find the ownership rate, but the article said 3 million guns in private hands out of 203 million people -- so not a high rate. Another thing said 800,000 gun owners.