Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:11:52 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Re: Brazil Parliament Votes To Allow Air Passengers To Carry
 Firearms?
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From: "Carlos Macedo Gomes" <gomes@navigo.com>
To: "Matthew Gaylor" <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Re: Brazil Parliament Votes To Allow Air Passengers To Carry Firearms?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:44:03 -0400

Hi Matt,

I've read into the Jornal do Brasil site and others (O Globo [1] and
Terra[2]) and don't see any mention of the new legislation.  I'll check w/
family in Brazil but if you get further word and could spread the word that
would be great.

thanks,
C.G.

[1] http://www.globo.com/
[2] http://www.terra.com.br/

--
gomes@navigo.com
Carlos Macedo Gomes
_sic itur ad astra_

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:11:12 -0300 (Hora padrão leste da Am. Sul)
From: "Daniel Fabio Jacob Nogueira LL.M." <daniel@nogueira.adv.br>
To: freematt@COIL.COM, CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Brazil Parliament Votes To Allow Air Passengers To Carry Firearms?
Organization: Jacob & Nogueira S/C

I haven't heard anything like that around here. I’ve searched JB and 
have found nothing to that respect. Furthermore, it seems a bit 
unBrazilian to take such a stance. Brazilian nationals do not have a 
Constitutional Right to bear arms ( not even for a well-regulated 
militia) and there has been a clear legislative movement towards 
restricting as much as possible the use / permission to use / 
purchase of firearms. Some time ago there was a bill introduced in 
the Brazilian Congress seeking to ban all civilian firearms, except 
for rural citizens’ rifles.

Even it the news was true, it would be the fastest ever action ever 
from Congress. The Brazilian Congress simply is not able to legislate 
that fast. The only way to introduce legislation with such urgency is 
by “Provisional Measures”, which is somewhat like an Executive Order. 
The President passes a Provisional Measure, which has the same 
efficacy of law during 60 days; during that period congress must 
confirm or deny the Measure. If confirmed, it is converted into law.


Regards

Daniel Fábio Jacob Nogueira, LL.M.
Brazilian  Attorney

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:27:03 -0700
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Re: Brazil Parliament Votes To Allow Air Passengers To Carry Firearms?

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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