• Bans the right to carry firearms among civilians, and establishes the federal police as the contact point for obtaining these permits (currently, this is the responsibility of the state police, who often do not input this information into the centralized database). Exceptions are made for hunters, collectors and sport shooters.
  
• National referendum to consult the population on a ban on firearms and munitions sales for civilians.
  
• Arms and munitions trafficking is typified for the first time as a crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison if weapons are of restricted or military use. Brazil would be the first country in South
• America to criminalize firearms contraband if the law passes, meeting its obligations under the Interamerican Convention on Firearms Trafficking of the OAS (CIFTA).
  
• Obligatory marking of firearms projectiles sold to the armed forces and the police, in order to facilitate tracing.
  
• Controls on brokers trading in firearms and ammunition.
  Minimum age to purchase firearms and ammunition raised from 21 to 25.
  
• Obligatory destruction of illegal firearms and ammunition apprehended by the police within a 48 hour period, following complete investigations and official release from the judicial process in which they are implicated.
  
• Amnesties so that people who have unregistered firearms can turn them over to the government without risk of punishment.
  
• Increased sentences for illegally carrying or possessing firerams and ammunition, making it impossible to get out of jail on bail after committing these crimes.
  
• Ban on toy guns and replicas.
  

Read the full text of the approved legislation in Portuguese here (Word Document)