A survey by GloboNews showed that less than 3% of people registered as Collectors, Sports Shooters, and Hunters (CAC) were inspected in 2022. The data is from the Brazilian Army, provided to the report via the Access to Information Act. The number is the lowest inspection rate in the last four years, contrary to the number of CACs in the country, which more than doubled in the period.
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Rules
Under the current rule for CACs, each person can have a maximum of 60 weapons. Of the total, there are 30 firearms of permitted use, and 30 of restricted use. Enforcement is the Army’s responsibility. During the Bolsonaro government, the former president edited decrees that facilitated access to weapons, including those of large caliber and restricted use, such as rifles.
Inspection Numbers
Despite the increase, the percentage of people inspected by the Armed Forces fell by half. According to the Sou da Paz Institute, in 2019 there were 167,390 people registered as CAC. Of the volume, 11,574 people were inspected by the Army – 7%. In the following years, this volume dropped to 3.5% in 2020; 3.3% in 2021 and 2.7% in 2022.
New Gun Policy
The Lula government is preparing a new decree with new regulations on firearms in the country. Among the main points, control and inspection would pass from the Army to the Federal Police. Since the campaign, the Lula government has positioned itself against the policy of releasing weapons. One of the government’s first acts was to revoke rules that facilitated and expanded the population’s access to firearms and ammunition. Subsequently, the government announced a call for re-registration of weapons, more than 6,000 weapons that had been released for CACs, were not been re-registered.
Our Analysis:
During the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), between 2019 and 2022, more than one million weapons were registered. In total, 1,354,751 new weapons went into circulation during this period, according to data collected by the Sou da Paz Institute and the Igarapé Institute. Data shows that the number of weapons in circulation has progressively increased over the years in the Bolsonaro government. This very high speed of purchase goes against the state’s ability to properly verify these requests and supervise the market, which can directly impacts public security. This rapid increase is worrying due to several studies that link the greater availability of weapons with increased violence, especially when they are in the hands of private individuals and are not subject to existing controls. The scenario created by the Bolsonaro government in the last four years is of a more armed Brazil and with much less government capacity to control or minimally monitor these weapons that have entered circulation and people who are accessing them.
Source: G1
