Posted on 06/22/2025 4:49:30 PM PDT by CFW
When Argentina elected outspoken libertarian Javier Milei, I expected great things from the South American nation. He's a free market, free people kind of guy who took the highest office in a nation that has been plagued with problems. The dude has been compared to Donald Trump, but he's far more of a pro-liberty guy than even The Donald.
I've been interested to see what he'd do, and what I've seen so far mostly looks good.
This, though, blows everything else out of the water.
President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree Wednesday broadening gun rights in the country by allowing Argentine civilians to purchase and possess semiautomatic weapons for the first time in 30 years.
The decree – signed by Milei, Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich – rescinds restrictions imposed in a 1995 decree signed by late President Carlos Menem that prohibited civilians from acquiring and possessing “semiautomatic weapons fed with removable magazines, similar to rifles, carbines or assault submachine guns derived from military weapons of a caliber larger than .22 LR” outside of very specific exemptions.
The new provisions establish a special authorization system for the legitimate civilian acquisition of said firearms overseen by the National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMAC), a decentralized entity of the Security Ministry. Individuals seeking to purchase semiautomatic firearms must show ANMAC “proven sporting uses and other objective conditions established for this purpose.”
In the decree, the Argentine government explained its decision to lift the ban as necessary to reevaluate the control mechanisms of semi-automatic weapons in the country after 30 years since the 1995 restrictions were introduced.
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All Argentina needed was a new President.
Excellent news!
It’s a small step because of required “sporting uses”. No mention of self defense.
Democrats in Blue states triggered.
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