At 10:55 AM 9/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
It is being widely reported that the Brazilian parliament has voted 234 for, 6 against to allow passengers on airplanes to carry firearms of .38 caliber or less. Details are said to be located at <http://www.jb.com.br/>. I've sent an info request to my Brazilian and Portuguese speaking subscribers to Freematt's Alerts for confirmation and additional newslinks.
I'm really skeptical about this - handguns are generally banned in Brazil, so it seems really unlikely that they'd suddenly be permitted aboard airlines - a policy change that radical and that fast seems too good to be true. I searched on Yahoo's Brazilian news - see <http://br.yahoo.com/noticias/> looking for "pistola" or "revolver" and couldn't find any mention of the change, though I did find some news stories about local shootings, and about how some US residents are buying guns because of the WTC attacks. (My mother-in-law is Brazilian, so I get some exposure to Portugese, but am far from fluent.) ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************