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Exclusive: Brazil federal police warned against Bolsonaro arms agenda
As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police.
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Bolsonaro, who hopes to hit 1 million CAC permits this year, says the rise in guns has helped reduce the murder rate, which has fallen steadily since before he took office, from 27 per 100,000 in 2017 to 19 last year.