Tag: guns

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:20 UTC

  Fewer firearms registered in Brazil in 2023

  

  According to Brazil's National Weapons System (Sinarm), 20,822 new firearms were registered for personal defense in 2023 from 111,044 the previous year, which represented an 82% drop, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:39 UTC

  Florida legalizes concealed guns without a permit

  

  The US State of Florida Monday legalized through Governor Ron DeSantis's signature the carrying of concealed weapons without a permit. The state Senate passed House Bill 543 by a 27-13 vote last week. The bill also received heavy Republican support in the House, where it passed by a 76-32 vote. “Constitutional Carry is in the books,” DeSantis said in a statement.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Nashville massacre perpetrator's mother was gun ban advocate

  

  Norma Hale, the mother of Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old transgender woman gunned down in Nashville, Tennessee, after killing 6 people in a shooting spree, is a longstanding gun control activist who has shared on her Facebook account a collection of signatures to keep firearms away from schools and ban the sale of high-capacity magazines.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Falklands Government announces “no questions asked” firearms and ammunition amnesty

  

  The Falklands government in a public service announcement is offering a ”no questions asked' Royal Falkland Islands Police firearms and ammunition amnesty running from 26 August to 3 September..

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Europol addresses the growing threat of 3D printed weapons

  

  Law enforcement professionals, ballistic experts, forensic scientists, policymakers and academia have gathered this week in The Hague, the Netherlands, for one of the world’s biggest platforms of exchange on the threat of 3D printed weapons.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  US, only country with more civilian weapons than citizens; in Falklands, 62 weapons per 100 people

  

  The United States is the only country in the world where there are more civilian weapons than citizens. In effect, there are 120 weapons for every 100 US citizens and according to researchers from the Swiss organization Small Arms Survey even when the exact number of civilian firearms is difficult to quantify for several factors, including unregistered and illegal trade, researchers estimates that US citizens account for some 393 million, which is about 46% of all civilian weapons in the world.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Brazilian President says “everyone should buy a rifle”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said that “everyone should buy a rifle” in order not to be enslaved.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Bolsonaro's pro-gun legislation watered down by Congress

  

  Lawmakers in Brazil have watered down pro-gun President Jair Bolsonaro's proposal that would have allowed ordinary people to carry weapons in public.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Weapons makers encouraged with the Brazilian market by pro-gun Bolsonaro

  

  With its high murder rate and huge armed forces, Brazil has long been in the cross-hairs of foreign weapons makers. Now they have a powerful champion: pro-gun President Jair Bolsonaro. The right-wing former army captain, who relaxed gun ownership laws soon after taking power in January, has raised hopes among foreign firms that his next move will be easing investment restrictions on Brazil's 200 billion reais (US$55 billion) defense sector.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 14:56 UTC

  Trump administration bans bump stocks that can turn rifles into machine guns

  

  The Trump administration has banned the use of bump stocks, devices that let rifles fire like machine guns, after promising to do so earlier this year. The final date to destroy or turn in the devices is 21 March, said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.