{"id":104955,"date":"2025-03-11T06:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/in-argentina-the-lowering-of-legal-age-to-obtain-firearms-arouses-concerns-in-society\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:37:37","slug":"in-argentina-the-lowering-of-legal-age-to-obtain-firearms-arouses-concerns-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/in-argentina-the-lowering-of-legal-age-to-obtain-firearms-arouses-concerns-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"In Argentina, the lowering of legal age to obtain firearms arouses concerns in society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__fact article__fact--false\">Letter from Buenos Aires<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/556\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/600\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/664\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/700\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/800\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Dans un magasin d\u2019armes, \u00e0 Buenos Aires, en 2002.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/2464\/1648\/664\/0\/75\/0\/ce4df58_sirius-fs-upload-1-4bdkkpxtxau4-1741648922579-000-apw2002090570694.jpg\" alt=\"In a weapon store, in Buenos Aires, in 2002.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">In a weapon store, in Buenos Aires, in 2002.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Ali Burafi \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">In Argentina, the change of legislation was celebrated by the government, in upper letters, on the social network X. <em>&#8220;History: people over 18 can become legitimate users of weapons <\/em>[\u00e0 feu]<em> \u00bb\u00bb<\/em>clairon Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security, December 11, 2024, while <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.lemonde.fr\/lheure-du-monde\/202503030300-argentine-que-devient-le-pays-sous-la-tronconneuse-de-javier\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">Ultraliberral president Javier Milei has just celebrated his first year in power<\/a>. Until then, access to <em>&#8220;The accreditation of legitimate user&#8221;<\/em> In order to obtain a weapon, involved being at least 21 years old, in addition to the approval of a psychophysical examination, a virgin criminal record and a certificate of aptitude. A lowering of the legal age decided, as many reforms brought by the government, by decree, without passing through the Parliament or prior debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \"><em>\u201cFrom the age of 16, it is possible to vote. From 18 years old, it is possible to go to war, to start a family or to be a member of the security forces. And, although it seems incredible, at any age it is possible to decide a change of sex <\/em>[de genre, selon la loi argentine]<em>  that marks for life. So why would it not be possible to be a legitimate user or carrying a weapon at 18? \u00bb\u00bb<\/em>Motive Patricia Bullrich, extending the president&#8217;s security and antiprogressist line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 77.19% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\">Tm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Buenos Aires In a weapon store, in Buenos Aires, in 2002. Ali Burafi \/ AFP In Argentina, the change of legislation was celebrated by the government, in upper letters, on the social network X. &#8220;History: people over 18 can become legitimate users of weapons [\u00e0 feu] \u00bb\u00bbclairon Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security, December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1216,9699,10165,14419,287,2534,23274,7431,2594],"class_list":["post-104955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-age","tag-argentina","tag-arouses","tag-concerns","tag-firearms","tag-legal","tag-lowering","tag-obtain","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}