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2026-09-19T22:04:16Z

Guilhermegnzaga: /* Brazil */ just added more sources

[[File:Black Panthers.png|thumb|Armed members of the [[Black Panther Party]] in Oakland, circa 1971. The [[National Rifle Association]] supported the 1967 Mulford Act, which banned the open carry tactics that the Black Panthers used to defend themselves and their communities from [[police]].]]
'''Gun control''' refers to policies that limit access to firearms. These policies can serve different purposes depending on which class they are applied against.

== By country ==

=== Brazil ===
In [[Federative Republic of Brazil|Brazil]] the purchase and possession/carrying of guns is allowed to the citizen that fulfill some requirements, such as being over 25 years old; employment and a fixed residence; proving good standing via criminal record clearance certificates , not being under investigation; technical proficiency test and a psychological test for handling a firearm. There several different allowance levels in gun permits (rural, functional/police, sport/colelctor) with different conditions to probe a genuine need for possession along with carrying.<ref>{{Web citation|author=República Federativa do Brasil|title=Sistema nacional de Armas|date=2003-12-22|url=https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/2003/l10.826.htm|quote=Art. 3o É obrigatório o registro de arma de fogo no órgão competente.}}</ref> Firearm regulation policies were implemented through the enactment of the Disarmament Statute (2003) and the update of the pre-existing National Weapons System regulations <ref>{{Web citation|author=Rapública Federativa do Brasil|newspaper=Constituição Federal|title=Lei 11.615|date=2023-07-21|url=https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2023/decreto/d11615.htm|archive-url=https://pesquisa.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=601&pagina=1&data=21/07/2023&totalArquivos=8}}</ref>, which had its last change in 2014 <ref>{{Web citation|author=República Federativa do Brasil|newspaper=Constituição Federal|title=Mensagem de Veto|date=2014-06-17}}</ref>, allowing correctional officers to carry their firearms back home.

=== Chile ===
In 1972, [[Republic of Chile|Chile]] passed a law putting civilian guns under military supervision, leaving them under [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]]'s control during the [[Central Intelligence Agency|Western]]-funded coup the next year.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=J. Sykes|newspaper=[[Fight Back! News]]|title=Gun control: the Marxist-Leninist view|date=2023-09-26|url=https://fightbacknews.org/articles/gun-control-the-marxist-leninist-view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002022427/https://fightbacknews.org/articles/gun-control-the-marxist-leninist-view|archive-date=2023-10-02}}</ref>

===Germany===
==== GDR ====
The [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|German Democratic Republic]] allowed individual ownership of guns, but they had to be kept at hunting clubs or shooting clubs while not in use. Hunters had to take classes to identify wildlife and shoot accurately to get a gun license. People who used guns for non-hunting purposes also had to take similar classes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Victor Grossman|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Gun controls in old East Germany: Berlin Bulletin 143|date=2018-03-25|url=https://mronline.org/2018/03/25/gun-controls-in-old-east-germany/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323210216/https://mronline.org/2018/03/25/gun-controls-in-old-east-germany/|archive-date=2023-03-23}}</ref>

=== United States ===
The Second Amendment of the [[United States Constitution]], as ratified in 1791, declares that "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=National Archives|title=The Bill of Rights: A Transcription|url=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715155144/https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript|archive-date=2025-07-15}}</ref> However, the right to bear arms has historically been denied to Black, Indigenous, and other oppressed peoples in the US.<ref name="Hales2015">{{Web citation|author=Larry Hales|newspaper=Workers World|title=Burning with rage and sadness|date=2015-06-23|url=https://www.workers.org/2015/06/20657/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Stephen Millies|newspaper=Workers World|title=Justice for Philando Castile!|date=2017-06-21|url=https://www.workers.org/2017/06/31833/}}</ref> This is because the Second Amendment is for white [[Settler colonialism|settler]] militias to attack colonized peoples.<ref>
*{{Web citation|author=Stephanie Tromblay|newspaper=Workers World|title=Lakota treaty defenders block highway to Mount Rushmore Trump traffic|date=2020-07-06|url=https://www.workers.org/2020/07/49860/|quote=The Second Amendment confirmed the legal basis of settler militias, historically used to kill Indigenous people and hunt down escaped enslaved Africans.}}
*{{Web citation|author=Betsy Piette|newspaper=Workers World|title=Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns|date=2022-06-06|url=https://www.workers.org/2022/06/64654/|quote=This trajectory can be traced back to U.S. settler colonialism and the organizing of European settlers into militias to attack Indigenous people. The Second Amendment protection of the “right to bear arms” goes back to this white-supremacist origin.}}</ref>

After the [[Statesian Revolution]], the [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[ruling class]] restricted gun ownership to white citizens in order to prevent [[Slavery|slave]] rebellions. The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] ruled in 1857 in ''Dred Scott v. Sanford'' that Africans could not carry guns.

During the [[Statesian Civil War|Civil War]], Africans armed themselves to overthrow the [[Confederate States of America (1861–1865)|Southern slavocracy]]. The Fourteenth Amendment, passed in 1868, gave Africans formal equality under the law. However, when [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] ended in 1877, white supremacist governments took control of the South and disarmed the Black population, forcing them back onto plantations as sharecroppers.

California banned open carry in 1967 in order to weaken the Black Panthers. [[Martin Luther King|Martin Luther King Jr.]] was denied a gun permit after his house was firebombed.<ref name=":0" />

== Gun violence ==
[[Capitalism]], not guns themselves, is the root of gun violence. Gun control has no correlation with preventing gun deaths when you include deaths by [[United States imperialism]].<ref name="Hales2015" /> The [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military]] and [[police]] kill dissidents with impunity.<ref name=":0" /> The deadliest mass shooter in U.S. history, [[Chris Kyle]], killed 255 enemies of [[imperialism]] over the course of ten years in [[Republic of Iraq|Iraq]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Walter Smolarek|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Gun control? Start with the Navy SEALS|date=2013-02-08|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/gun-control-start-with-seals-html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818031436/https://www.liberationnews.org/gun-control-start-with-seals-html/|archive-date=2020-08-18}}</ref>

== Marxist views ==
[[Marxism]] generally supports the [[Proletariat|workers]]' right to bear arms:
{{Quote|Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the [[workers]] must be frustrated, by force if necessary.|[[Karl Marx]]|[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm Address of the Central Committee of the Communist League]|March 1850}}{{Quote|Our slogan must be: arming of the [[proletariat]] to defeat, expropriate and disarm the [[bourgeoisie]]. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap.|[[Vladimir Lenin]]|[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/miliprog/ii.htm The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution]|September 1916}}{{Quote|We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.|[[Mao Zedong]]|[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong]|1938 November 6}}

== References ==
[[Category:Weapons]]

Gun control

2026-09-19T22:00:03Z

Guilhermegnzaga: Added Brazil in the 'By Country' Section alongside with some references.

[[File:Black Panthers.png|thumb|Armed members of the [[Black Panther Party]] in Oakland, circa 1971. The [[National Rifle Association]] supported the 1967 Mulford Act, which banned the open carry tactics that the Black Panthers used to defend themselves and their communities from [[police]].]]
'''Gun control''' refers to policies that limit access to firearms. These policies can serve different purposes depending on which class they are applied against.

== By country ==

=== Brazil ===
In [[Federative Republic of Brazil|Brazil]] the purchase and possession/carrying of guns is allowed to the citizen that fulfill some requirements, such as being over 25 years old; employment and a fixed residence; proving good standing via criminal record clearance certificates , not being under investigation; technical proficiency test and a psychological test for handling a firearm. There several different allowance levels in gun permits (rural, functional/police, sport/colelctor) with different conditions to probe a genuine need for possession along with carrying.<ref>{{Web citation|author=República Federativa do Brasil|title=Sistema nacional de Armas|date=2003-12-22|url=https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/2003/l10.826.htm|quote=Art. 3o É obrigatório o registro de arma de fogo no órgão competente.}}</ref> Firearm regulation policies were implemented through the enactment of the Disarmament Statute (2003) and the update of the pre-existing National Weapons System, which had its last change in 2014 <ref>{{Web citation|author=República Federativa do Brasil|newspaper=Constituição Federal|title=Mensagem de Veto|date=2014-06-17}}</ref>, allowing correctional officers to carry their firearms back home.

=== Chile ===
In 1972, [[Republic of Chile|Chile]] passed a law putting civilian guns under military supervision, leaving them under [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]]'s control during the [[Central Intelligence Agency|Western]]-funded coup the next year.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=J. Sykes|newspaper=[[Fight Back! News]]|title=Gun control: the Marxist-Leninist view|date=2023-09-26|url=https://fightbacknews.org/articles/gun-control-the-marxist-leninist-view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002022427/https://fightbacknews.org/articles/gun-control-the-marxist-leninist-view|archive-date=2023-10-02}}</ref>

===Germany===
==== GDR ====
The [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|German Democratic Republic]] allowed individual ownership of guns, but they had to be kept at hunting clubs or shooting clubs while not in use. Hunters had to take classes to identify wildlife and shoot accurately to get a gun license. People who used guns for non-hunting purposes also had to take similar classes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Victor Grossman|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Gun controls in old East Germany: Berlin Bulletin 143|date=2018-03-25|url=https://mronline.org/2018/03/25/gun-controls-in-old-east-germany/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323210216/https://mronline.org/2018/03/25/gun-controls-in-old-east-germany/|archive-date=2023-03-23}}</ref>

=== United States ===
The Second Amendment of the [[United States Constitution]], as ratified in 1791, declares that "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=National Archives|title=The Bill of Rights: A Transcription|url=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715155144/https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript|archive-date=2025-07-15}}</ref> However, the right to bear arms has historically been denied to Black, Indigenous, and other oppressed peoples in the US.<ref name="Hales2015">{{Web citation|author=Larry Hales|newspaper=Workers World|title=Burning with rage and sadness|date=2015-06-23|url=https://www.workers.org/2015/06/20657/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Stephen Millies|newspaper=Workers World|title=Justice for Philando Castile!|date=2017-06-21|url=https://www.workers.org/2017/06/31833/}}</ref> This is because the Second Amendment is for white [[Settler colonialism|settler]] militias to attack colonized peoples.<ref>
*{{Web citation|author=Stephanie Tromblay|newspaper=Workers World|title=Lakota treaty defenders block highway to Mount Rushmore Trump traffic|date=2020-07-06|url=https://www.workers.org/2020/07/49860/|quote=The Second Amendment confirmed the legal basis of settler militias, historically used to kill Indigenous people and hunt down escaped enslaved Africans.}}
*{{Web citation|author=Betsy Piette|newspaper=Workers World|title=Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns|date=2022-06-06|url=https://www.workers.org/2022/06/64654/|quote=This trajectory can be traced back to U.S. settler colonialism and the organizing of European settlers into militias to attack Indigenous people. The Second Amendment protection of the “right to bear arms” goes back to this white-supremacist origin.}}</ref>

After the [[Statesian Revolution]], the [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[ruling class]] restricted gun ownership to white citizens in order to prevent [[Slavery|slave]] rebellions. The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] ruled in 1857 in ''Dred Scott v. Sanford'' that Africans could not carry guns.

During the [[Statesian Civil War|Civil War]], Africans armed themselves to overthrow the [[Confederate States of America (1861–1865)|Southern slavocracy]]. The Fourteenth Amendment, passed in 1868, gave Africans formal equality under the law. However, when [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] ended in 1877, white supremacist governments took control of the South and disarmed the Black population, forcing them back onto plantations as sharecroppers.

California banned open carry in 1967 in order to weaken the Black Panthers. [[Martin Luther King|Martin Luther King Jr.]] was denied a gun permit after his house was firebombed.<ref name=":0" />

== Gun violence ==
[[Capitalism]], not guns themselves, is the root of gun violence. Gun control has no correlation with preventing gun deaths when you include deaths by [[United States imperialism]].<ref name="Hales2015" /> The [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military]] and [[police]] kill dissidents with impunity.<ref name=":0" /> The deadliest mass shooter in U.S. history, [[Chris Kyle]], killed 255 enemies of [[imperialism]] over the course of ten years in [[Republic of Iraq|Iraq]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Walter Smolarek|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Gun control? Start with the Navy SEALS|date=2013-02-08|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/gun-control-start-with-seals-html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818031436/https://www.liberationnews.org/gun-control-start-with-seals-html/|archive-date=2020-08-18}}</ref>

== Marxist views ==
[[Marxism]] generally supports the [[Proletariat|workers]]' right to bear arms:
{{Quote|Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the [[workers]] must be frustrated, by force if necessary.|[[Karl Marx]]|[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm Address of the Central Committee of the Communist League]|March 1850}}{{Quote|Our slogan must be: arming of the [[proletariat]] to defeat, expropriate and disarm the [[bourgeoisie]]. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap.|[[Vladimir Lenin]]|[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/miliprog/ii.htm The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution]|September 1916}}{{Quote|We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.|[[Mao Zedong]]|[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong]|1938 November 6}}

== References ==
[[Category:Weapons]]