Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree easing restrictions on civilians buying guns, the first step of a campaign promise to overturn the country’s strict firearms laws.
The temporrary measure is part of a plan to overturn a 2003 law that the leader has said is tantamount to banning civilians from purchasing guns.
Mr Bolsonaro ran on a law-and-order platform, which resonated with voters in a country which logged a record 64,000 murders in 2017, with with 43,000 of those the result of firearms..
Having portrayed himself as a tough-on-crime candidate - his trademark gesture is his fingers pointng two imaginary guns - he scored well with voters frustrated with violence across the country.
