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Firearm Registrations in Brazil Rise Five-Fold in Ten Years

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The number of firearm registrations by individuals citizens in Brazil has increased over five times in the past ten years, according to data compiled by the Sou da Paz Institute. According to the Institute in the period from 2008 to 2017, the number of weapons registered jumped from 6,260 to 33,031.

"We believe that this is very much related to a sense of insecurity of people and a difficulty to see effective responses from the State, but mainly to the greater diffusion of a rather easy speech that . . .

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