Germany is planning to bring in a new law requiring gun owners to keep weapons in safes only accessible through the owner's fingerprints.
In the wake of a school massacre in March in which 16 died, a courthouse shooting and numerous other gun deaths, all political parties have agreed the rules need to be severely tightened.
There are ten million registered guns in the country and an estimated 10 million more illegal ones.
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In addition to a centralised federal weapons register, officials want "biometric security" barriers for gun vaults and technology that would limit the use of pistols and revolvers to their owners.
Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed 15 people before shooting himself in a bloodbath at his former school near Stuttgart last month.
