Overview

• Brazil's new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is requiring gun owners to register their weapons with police, undoing former President Jair Bolsonaro's pro-gun policies.
• Bolsonaro tried to convert Brazil into a country with more firearms and less regulation, but experts have cast doubt on the reliability of the army's database and said lax oversight has allowed guns to fall into criminal hands.
• Instituto Sou da Paz estimates that the number of guns in civilian hands nearly tripled under Bolsonaro, to 2.2 million in a country of 214 million people.
• Lula's decree requires gun owners to register their weapons with the Federal Police, and the original deadline was delayed until May 3.
• The government hopes to determine precisely how many guns and what types are no longer with their original owners and, potentially, in the hands of criminal groups.