The Minister of National Security, Aníbal Fernández, confirmed the purchase of 100 tasersthrough an administrative process that It began to take shape in October of last year, to a supplier that had appeared “in the Macrista era, we took a payment that had been made at that time, and now the process needs to be finished”the official said.
In 2020, the government of the City of Buenos Aires processed the purchase of 60 tasersbut the National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMAC), dependent on the portfolio led by Minister Soria, he never allowed the shipment to enter the country.
In October of last year, The government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta filed an amparo before the courts, which recently ordered the national government to “resolve in a month if it accepts the importation of these pistols.”. The Minister of Security estimated this morning that “surely the government will authorize the entry” of the tasers.
The purchase made by the national government, as explained by Fernández, consists of “100 devices model T7, with its corresponding kit”, for a total amount of 293,490 dollars, carried out by “direct contracting, through the firm Axon Enterprice INC”. The process, which was published in the official gazette on January 4, began in October 2022, ministry sources indicated.
In the CABA government they indicated that In the event that the entry of the guns is unlocked, they have a project to “create Taser brigades, which will be deployed in 15 communes to intervene in special casessuch as violent acts caused by people insane or under a nervous breakdown”, similar to what happened at the Retiro station, which ended with the death of a City police officer.
