Brazil Parliament Votes To Allow Air Passengers To Carry Firearms?


Mon Sep 17 08:27:03 PDT 2001


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.)


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