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  • SAF TRAVEL ADVISORY: AVOID TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

    BELLEVUE, WA – To all U.S. gun owners Do Not Travel to the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory located southeast of the Bahamas, and if you have already made plans, reconsider your destination. SUMMARY: Since November 2022, at least eight American tourists have faced “firearms prosecutions” for inadvertently having ammunition in their…

  • Finland has announced it will open 300 shooting ranges in a bid to encourage citizens to take a greater interest in national defence.

    A member of Finland’s defence committee said the move would help Finns improve their shooting skills in the face of increased threats from Russia. Under the Finnish constitution, every male aged between 18 and 60 must complete national army service but the government hopes that civilians will keep their weapons skills after the period of…

  • Brazil: Senate Moves to Challenge Socialist President’s Extreme Gun Control Decree

    Brazilian Senator Luis Carlos Heinze introduced a bill on Monday that seeks to suspend the new “Responsible Gun Control” decree issued by radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week. Lula’s gun control decree rolls back policies implemented during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro. It forbids citizens from obtaining certain types of firearms, reduces the…

  • Brazil: Lula tightens gun control amid surge in ownership

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an order to tighten gun controls in a bid to halt a surge in firearm ownership. Under Lula’s far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, there was an almost seven-fold rise in registered users. Limits will be placed on stockpiles of guns and ammunition, while certain weapons, including nine…

  • Gun ownership went up. Killings went down. Brazil debates why.

    BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ, Brazil — Take away the açaí smoothies and the skewers of barbecued Brazilian meat and the four-day Texas ExpoTiro herecould be a gun show anywhere in the United States. Firearms dealers from all over the world have rented booths to market Glock pistols and AR-15s, and gun rights advocates are offering lectures on…

  • Germany to tighten gun laws after suspected coup plot, interior minister says

    BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Germany plans to tighten its gun laws in the wake of a suspected plot by a far-right group to violently overthrow the government and install a minor royal as national leader, its interior minister said in an interview published on Sunday. German police last week arrested 25 people suspected of…