Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies' Public Security Committee approved a substitute to PL 2,480/2025 that lets licensed private security staff carry firearms off duty and while commuting.
- Eligibility covers vigilantes, private security agents, and firearms and tactics instructors, with proof of active employment and a valid National Vigilante Card required.
- The text keeps training and psychological exams, orders companies to notify the Federal Police when staff leave their jobs, and allows suspension or loss of carry rights for misuse.
- The bill still must clear the Constitution and Justice Committee and could then go straight to the Senate under a conclusivo procedure, followed by presidential sign-off and regulation.
- A related bill, PL 23/2023, advances stricter discipline by calling for immediate suspension of carry and weapon seizure when agents are under the influence, with notice to prosecutors and inclusion of the conduct under administrative impropriety.