Brazil's Lula Government to Ban or Tax Guns, Says Aide

[Judi Lynn]

By Reuters
|Nov. 23, 2022, at 6:27 p.m.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government-elect of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will revoke decrees made by President Jair Bolsonaro that have eased access to firearms and is considering banning or taxing guns when it takes office in January, a senior Lula aide said on Wednesday.

Senator-elect Flavio Dino, who leads Lula's transition team for public safety and justice, said the next government will reverse a series of Bolsonaro's executive orders that have weakened gun restrictions and caused a sharp increase in the number of gun owners in the country.

"The revocation will occur... Now, regarding what is going to happen with the existing arsenals, today there are two ideas, one that goes in the fastest direction, which is to say that it is illegal and that's it," Dino said.

The alternative would be shortening the registration period of firearms to one year, "to create tougher, more rigorous taxation, which creates an economic burden for the existing arsenals," he added.

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[David__77]

1. Taxing would not be great.

The weapons that are out there would hopefully be in the hands of the poor.

[MichMan]

2. Think of all the revenues they could get from the criminals if they taxed them