Under President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, Brazil became a gold mine for the international gun industry. The country’s 2003 Disarmament Statute was dismantled by several decrees signed by Bolsonaro and actions taken by his allies in the Congress and Senate. Their goal was to facilitate civilian access to firearms. One consequence is that the sale of […]
Johnny Morris, the owner of one of the largest retailers of firearms in the US (Bass Pro Shops), is also one of the most powerful members and supporters of the NRA – National Rifle Association. He donated the space and funded the construction of the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum inside his Bass Pro Shops […]
On Tuesday, July 19, the Omaha City Council will vote to approve a lengthy consent agenda–that is, a long list of what are meant to be routine, noncontroversial business matters that are grouped together as a single item to streamline meetings. Among the items, #75, is a trade in militarized police gear between the city’s […]
Excessive vanity can be problematic. People leave traces on social media because they can’t help themselves. They are addicted to exposure, they cannot see themselves a single day without sharing on social media whatever they are doing. They tell their whereabouts, what they were doing, who they were connected to and when any event in their lives […]
This article is addressed to journalists and authorities who may be interested in further investigating the relationship between the Bolsonaro family and the American gun industry. First, it is important to note why the National Rifle Association (NRA) may not hesitate to meet with international far-right politicians: the NRA wants them to succeed. Countries led […]
On February 4th, 2022, a man brought a gun into Lincoln Public Schools. I wrote about this the next day and included a police report showing that the man was not charged, and the gun was not confiscated and destroyed as state law seems to require. Since then, I have been in communication with Joe […]
Why was a man allowed to bring a gun into a school meeting in Lincoln without being charged with breaking the law? Why was he offered the chance to store the weapon in his car and then allowed back in the meeting? The law is very clear when it comes to guns and schools in […]
We have gathered enough information to demonstrate that the NRA has been liaising with the Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro’s family since at least January 2017. There is robust evidence that the NRA may have helped the Bolsonaro family to find wealthy partners in the United States to bankroll their campaigns in the 2018 general […]
When we first learned that two of far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s sons, Eduardo and Carlos, were connected to a shooting club called 88 Tactical in Omaha, Nebraska, we started digging deeper into this relationship. We are a group of independent researchers trained in different fields of the humanities and social sciences and based in […]
Na próxima vez que você assistir Eduardo Bolsonaro falando sobre armas em sua rede social, você pode perguntar: Eduardo Bolsonaro trabalha para a indústria de armas dos Estados Unidos? Listamos a seguir 10 fatos para que você reflita sobre o assunto. 1 Conheça quem apresentou Eduardo Bolsonaro para a extrema-direita e a indústria de armas […]
