'You're going to get hurt,' a prominent Bolsonaro supporter told four cops in October before shooting over 50 times at them. Roberto Jefferson’s case underlines how hard it will be for President-elect Lula to disarm Brazil
The former federal lawmaker then threw three adulterated stun grenades at the police and sprayed their armored car with over 50 shots from his Smith & Wesson 5.56 mm assault-style rifle, according to his testimony and those of the arresting officers. Two cops were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and Jefferson only surrendered after an eight-hour standoff.
The priority will be to reimpose civilian prohibitions on certain high-caliber weapons, including the rifle used by Jefferson, the sources said. Sou da Paz Institute's Langeani estimated there are between 40,000 and 70,000 legal assault rifles in civilian hands. A mandatory, competitively priced buy-back, with the government paying 15,000 reais to 20,000 reais per rifle, would remove some of the country's most dangerous firearms, said Langeani and other Lula advisors.
"He believes any politician who wants to disarm their population wants to turn them into slaves," Cunha said.Transition sources expect legal challenges from CAC permit-holders who bought expensive foreign firearms in good faith. "To destroy overnight an entire industry for political revenge ... is a dictatorial measure," he said. "We believe the legislature will respond to guarantee peoples' rights to practice their sports and exercise legitimate self-defense."
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