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In a meeting with the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, this Tuesday (20/09), police officers from the National Council of Civil Police Chiefs (CONCPC) proposed closing the shooting clubs on election day. The measure aims to prevent collectors, sport shooters and hunters (CACs) from circulating with weapons on election day. The intention is to avoid episodes of violence. In order to circulate with weapons, CACs need to carry a transit guide and present as justification the fact that they are going to hunt or train. With clubs closed, there would be no reason to take the gun out of the place where it is kept.
A similar decision
Last month, the TSE already banned the carrying of weapons in polling places and within a 100-meter radius of these spaces. Among the justifications for the rule, the rapporteur, Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, spoke about the increase in political violence and cited the CACs.
