This Content Is Only For Subscribers
To unlock this content, subscribe to INTERLIRA Reports.
While records of hunter, shooter and collector (CAC) and shooting clubs in Brazil multiply, the popularization of 3D printers has given rise to groups that encourage the homemade manufacture of firearms, including the distribution of tutorials. The practice occurs outside the law, since weapons can only be legally produced and used with due control of quantity, type and quality. 3D technology allows the production of objects by printing successive layers of material. In the case of weapons, which can be manufactured from scratch, the practice has already become common abroad, and has now arrived in Brazil. Weapons of this type were seized with neo-Nazi cells, one of which was the target of a police operation in Santa Catarina. A specialist in arms control and security says that the fear is not that this type of weapon will reinforce large gangs, which usually have the financial capacity to acquire better weapons, but that it will be used by smaller groups or individuals with specific objectives.
