Abstract
This article analyzes the results of research carried out in 2005 on the functioning of the National Arms System as an instrument for management of information on legal possession of firearms. The research won a competitive grant from the National Secretariat of Public Security (SENASP/ Ministry of Criminal Justice.) It seeks to understand how the SINARM - an entity whose importance increased as a result of the “NO” victory on a national gun control referendum that was conducted in 2005 - can contribute to the existence of public policies for Public Security and particularly, its own efficiency as a system for control and management of legally-owned arms and weapons in Brazil. We look at its connections to public safety policies, to the absence of a “culture of control” in the country and to the multiple causes of deaths by firearms. To lend support to our argument, the research compared the SINARM to analogous systems in other countries, analyzed legislation, carried out interviews with authorities and technicians who manage the system and above all, carried out in loco observation on the way the SINARM works. We conclude that its creation meant progress and that its operation is simple but not particularly reliable or secure; nonetheless, we also maintain that there are ways to deal with such difficulties, since the entity is crucial to the existence of public security policies.
Highlights
This article analyzes the results of research carried out in 2005 on the functioning of the National Arms System as an instrument for management of information on legal possession of firearms
We conclude that its creation meant progress and that its operation is simple but not reliable or secure; we maintain that there are ways to deal with such difficulties, since the entity is crucial to the existence of public security policies
A conjugação de políticas públicas de segurança no que tange tanto ao estoque legal – em que o Sistema Nacional de Armas (Sinarm) ocupa papel destacado – como ao ilegal é crucial à diminuição do número de crimes com armas de fogo, ao lado, é claro, da melhoria das condições sociais do País, marcado pela brutal desigualdade socioeconômica e de oportunidades, notadamente a ausência de perspectivas de vida aos jovens das periferias
Summary
This article analyzes the results of research carried out in 2005 on the functioning of the National Arms System as an instrument for management of information on legal possession of firearms. Desde 2000 ocorreram apenas dois casos, embora as razões para tanto como o real estoque de armas (sobretudo as ilegais) em regiões com esse perfil precisem ser melhores analisadas, pois aparentemente demonstram a fragilidade do sistema geral de controles de armas no país, dado tratar-se, reitere-se, de uma região extremamente conflituosa entre grandes proprietários de terras e trabalhadores sem terra.
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