{
  "id": 652830,
  "title": "Bolsonaro’s easing of gun control fueled illegal hunting, study indicates",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/bolsonaros-easing-of-gun-control-fueled-illegal-hunting-study",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-12T10:17:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/bolsonaros-easing-of-gun-control-fueled-illegal-hunting-study-indicates/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's promise to arm every citizen during his 2018 campaign came to fruition in May 2020, as he demanded his ministers sign a decree raising the limit on civilian ammunition purchases. Bolsonaro's pro-gun agenda directly influenced illegal wildlife hunting, according to data from nonprofit institutes Igarapé and Sou da Paz. Between 2019 and 2022, the number of guns in private collections held by civilians and military personnel nearly doubled to 3 million, up from just over 1.3 million in 2018. In 2018, 59,000 weapons, known as CACs (hunters, sport shooters, and collectors), were purchased. By 2022, that figure had increased to 430,000.",
  "summary": "Brazil’s gun boom reached the forest, where native wildlife became targets too.",
  "key_points": [
    "Bolsonaro promised to arm every Brazilian citizen in 2018 campaign",
    "Gun ownership nearly doubled from 1.3 million in 2018 to 3 million in 2022",
    "Illegal wildlife hunting increased due to Bolsonaro's pro-gun agenda"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}