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[Trad Archer]

Please forgive my ignorance, but do any of you know are there any countries in South or Central America that allows it's citizens to own any handguns?

 

[HKGuns]

Not to be a smart@ but...

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- "Generally speaking, South and Central American gun laws are based on the very restrictive Spanish or Portuguese model."
- "Venezuela has recently banned all civilian firearms and ammunition, so only the Cartels and their criminal associates are normally armed."
- "Argentina has relatively permissive gun laws and its violent crime rates are far lower than either Venezuela or Brazil."
- "Brazil, which has its cultural roots in Portugal, has not completely banned guns, but for most of its population might as well have."

 

[Gordon]

Panama has the Pensenado program where if you have a regular pension check coming in of a certain level, you can have adjunct citizenship rights after you are approved. Then you can sue , have constitutional rights as a citizen does and own property including guns. To get a permit, that includes purchase, ownership and carry you have to apply to the police who take a month or two to do a back ground check (a letter from a Chief LEO from where your from and past permits helps! ) and then they give you an appointment with a shrink that lasts about an hour. Another month or so and if you are a good guy you will get your license that allows CCW and purchase (or importation with a little extra $$) of any non full auto weapon, I think 3 is the normal number. There is NO hunting of any game animal in Panama BTW. I had a lady friend I brought down there and got her set up and she brought a Glock 26, a .22 Marlin model 39 Mountie and a 12 guage Ithaca 37 deluxe with a trap and a slug barrel. The guns in the stores there are very over priced unless you get a Taurus FWIW.
I used to have a Mexican carry permit in the 70s fwiw but it was given to me by a general and I was a DEA agent. I kept it into the 80s many years after I left the DEA and it worked until the early 90s when I was warned it was no good, but let go return to the US without my Model 36 S&W .38

 

[oneounceload]

Yes there are several countries that allow handgun ownership - Costa Rica is one. A google search by country will give you the up to date laws

 

[orionengnr]

Panama and Costa Rica might start looking like Heaven within six months.

 

[PRM]

LOL - that seems to be a very popular Google search the last 24 hours. I'm pretty close to retirement - don't plan on leaving the USA just because of the current landscape. That will change - we still got an even split on values and attitudes.. I do plan on retiring to a very isolated out of the way area.

 

[Nico Testosteros]

Isn't Limbaugh overdue to move down there per his own statement?

 

[oneounceload]

Casa Del Campo in the DR has a GREAT sporting clays, quail hunting, shooting venue; Puerto Rico has sport shooting; several island nations have a wild pig problem with hunting - although not as good as Hawaii

BTW - if I had Rush's money and I didn't already have an island in a cash haven, I'd be firing my financial advisor

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Brazil makes a ton of handguns; presumably its citizens can own them.

 

[tyeo098]

Brazil makes a ton of handguns; presumably its citizens can own them.

Kimber makes a lot in NYC.

Dont see many NYC-ians with them. (Legally at least)

 

[Curator]

Brazil has very restrictive laws concerning firearms ownership. Most people cannot get a license to possess a handgun unless they are rich and politically connected. Some Brazilians have this privilege but not many. On the other hand there are large amounts of Brazilians employed in either the law enforcement, or security industry as well as the military, so there are a lot of guns out there. Rifles, except for .22 rim fire are mostly prohibited as is hunting in general (bunny huggers prevail in government positions) The only center-fire rifle that is allowed for Brazilians to own is the .44-40 and this only because a former President had one and wanted to make this sole exception. One staill has to get a permit that entails permission from multiple levels of State, Federal, and Local police. Indigenous people are allowed single shot shotguns and muzzle loading rifles on the frontier for subsistence hunting. This is a direct result of socialism and unfettered democracy without constitutional protections.

 

[oneounceload]

Kimber makes a lot in NYC

Incorrect, Kimber is made in Yonkers - which is NOT NYC - it is a suburb, but is not inside the city limits

 

[mp510]

Brazil has very restrictive laws concerning firearms ownership. Most people cannot get a license to possess a handgun unless they are rich and politically connected. Some Brazilians have this privilege but not many. On the other hand there are large amounts of Brazilians employed in either the law enforcement, or security industry as well as the military, so there are a lot of guns out there. Rifles, except for .22 rim fire are mostly prohibited as is hunting in general (bunny huggers prevail in government positions) The only center-fire rifle that is allowed for Brazilians to own is the .44-40 and this only because a former President had one and wanted to make this sole exception. One staill has to get a permit that entails permission from multiple levels of State, Federal, and Local police. Indigenous people are allowed single shot shotguns and muzzle loading rifles on the frontier for subsistence hunting. This is a direct result of socialism and unfettered democracy without constitutional protections.

One of the programs on PBS show indigenous persons in Brazil hunting with a semi-auto .22 rifle. I appeared to be a Marlin type, but it (more likely) was one of the CBC's (similar to what it is imported into the US under the Mossberg name).

You seem to have a lot of personal familiarity, or knowledge at least, with (or maybe of) the laws and practice down there. Documentaries that I have seen show Brazilian police checking their weapons (revolvers at the time of filming) in and out of the arms-room for shift. My assumption was that was typical practice there, however I have also seen some articles suggesting that (at least certain elements of) Brazilian LE were authorized to use personally purchased weapons.