Posted on 12/21/2023 9:34:16 AM PST by marktwain
Newly elected President Javier Milei of Argentina is an admirer of the right to keep and bear arms, similar to the Second Amendment enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America. Argentina has a vibrant gun culture nurtured by strong rural farming and cattle ranching roots.
According to csmonitor.com, sales of small-caliber weapons (probably .22 caliber) were not regulated until the early 1990’s. As Argentina has descended into worse and worse poverty from inept socialist policies, more and more regulatory burdens were placed on the acquisition and carrying of firearms.
As reported by as-coa.org, ordinary citizens can acquire some firearms. Firearms must be registered, and the place they are stored must be recorded. Firearms owners are fingerprinted, must undergo training, pass psychiatric and physical examinations, and show proof of income. How much income is required to be eligible to own a firearm is unclear. There is a “may issue” permit system. Permits under the system are only valid for one year. The applicant is required to justify the need to carry the firearm. The batimes.com.ar tells us President Milei wants to eliminate most of these elaborate restrictions. From batimes.com.ar:
Guns also enter the conversation – the national deputy has also ratified on several occasions his agreement with the unrestricted right to bear arms.
CNN.com reinforces this information:
Milei’s political program also includes slashing regulations on gun control and transferring authority over the penitentiary system from civilians to the military; both measures part of a tough-on-crime approach.
President Milei seems serious about his promise to slash government spending. From theblaze.com:
Javier Milei, Argentina’s new libertarian president, has wasted no time amputating various bureaucratic tentacles.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
“right instincts” — damning with faint praise.
I’d say spectacular compared to the previous. Or as Milei would say, “Espectacular”.
Libs throwing a hissy fit down there
Video from last night
Argentina’s Congress Being Surrounded
Argentina: now the people surround the National Congress
https://rumble.com/v42jim2-argentinas-congress-being-surrounded-by-protesters.html
Its sad, really. Milei outlined the facts in his inaugural address the crisis Argentina faces - decades of decline, government corruption everywhere, 1000% inflation, highest taxes in the world, the country is completely shut out of debt markets.... Its truly a crisis
And yet much of the population still can't grasp it.
It makes one wonder how bad things will have to get here in the USA for Americans to want serious change?
It’s fine that he is proposing such policies but to be a successful leader he needs to get these policies enacted into law. Whether he can or not remains to be seen.
The “right” needs the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to keep the fascist “left” from taking over the world.
Michael Bloomberg is disappointed... Good!!
Rich people took all the money. Everybody else is poor because rich people took all the money. Government needs to take money back from the rich people and give it to poor people. The Peronistas tried to do that but were thwarted by evil rich people. Milei works for the evil rich people. Let's go protest him.
No more thinking needed. /s
Interesting story.
Hopefully Argentina which once was prosperous, clean, safe, and modern, starts heading in the right direction again.
For a while they were going backwards as they were embracing every leftist idea imaginable, with the foreseeable economic and social outcomes.
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