The Federal Senate committees are discussed this week Projects that expand access to firearms in the country. Texts will be analyzed in Public Security Committees (CSP) and Human Rights (CDH), headed by Valvio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) and Damares Alves (Republicans-DF), respectively.
In CSP, Senators must analyze this Tuesday (31) Senator Alessandro Vieira’s opinion on a draft law that gives firearms to lawyers for self-defense.
The proposal was composed by Flevio BolsonaroWho killed the danger of violence against these professionals to present the topic. Flavio said in the project: “The possession of a firearm will give the lawyer an opportunity to defend himself against the unfair aggression and try to save his life.”
The text amends the law of law and the Brazilian Lawyers Association (OAB) to include from the rights of lawyers with possession firearm For personal defense throughout the national region.
According to the Alessandro Viewra report, proving the lawyer’s activity will be sufficient to prove the need for size. The text also amends the disarmament law to include the lawyers registered in Oab in the list of people who have permission to carry organisms.
In the report, Alessandro Vieira argues that extending permission to lawyers gives “equal” treatment, as the judiciary and the public prosecutor already have this privilege.
According to the current legislation, members of the Public Prosecution and the Judicial Authority are allowed to carry weapons, provided that they perform a security job. If the proposal is approved, then permission will be applied to any registered lawyer in Oab.
Size should follow the rules of disarmament law, such as commitment to registration of firearms and testing psychological efficiency to deal with organisms, among other criteria.
After CSP, the text analysis is still needed Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ). The peripheral suggestion, that is, if the committees approved, will be sent directly to the House of Representatives, without passing through the plenary session.
Violence against women
In CDH, Damaris led to Wednesday (2) the project that allows firearms to possess victim women of domestic violence and urgent protection. The procedure will be applied to women over 18 years of age. The Senator made the proposal Rosana Martinelli (PT-MT) Get an advertisement close to the girl.
“In severe situations, where the threat of physical integrity is clear and present, the possibility of carrying a weapon can work as a deterrent for the aggressor, as well as providing women with effective defense means in the time of emergency.”
You expect urgent protection measures in Maria Da has the law. It may be of two types: those who need the perpetrator of the crime to comply with the rules, which include the approach and the touched prohibition; And those that protect women, such as referral to shelters.
In his opinion, the course, the Senator Magno Malta (PL-SES) withdrew from the project that he decided that after nullifying the preventive measure of the emergency, the owner must keep the weapon exclusively at its residence or its workplace, provided that it is a holder or the legal guardian of the institution.
Environmental supervision
It is also on the CSP agenda on Tuesday the project that allows weapons to possess members Indian National Corporation (Funai) In inspection activities.
Between 2023 and 2024, the draft law was approved by three committees in the Senate. At the plenary session, Senator Jorge Saif (PL-SC) made an amendment and the text had to return to CSP to analyze the council.
The proposal was composed by the external interim committee to investigate the reasons for increasing crime and attention in the northern region of Brazil, and has a relationship Senator Fabiano Constato (PT-SA).
The motivation behind the text was presented by the murders in Bruno Araijo Pereira and the English journalist Dom Phillips in the Wadi Javari area, in Amazonas, in 2022.
According to The Rapporteur, the project is seeking to give Funai servers “Self -defending”, “whose work with the interests of illegal organizers, drug dealers, biological aircraft, and proper registration are among other criminals.”
Funai members are included in inspection activities in the list of people who have a gun, according to the disarmament system. Fabiano Constarat has accepted the Senator Saif and also in the list of active employees members in the following organizations:
- The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA);
- Icmbio; ICMBIO;
- Government and municipal bodies and provinces listed in the national environmental system (Cisnama) perform inspection activity.