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"I mean, I don’t support them but if they build a gun I can’t do anything about that," the Brazilian designer, known online as Joseph the Parrot, said on a podcast.
"If you are upset about a white supremacist building a Urutau, you can build one yourself to counter him."
That's one of the most Brazilian statements about gun violence I've ever heard...
What a clown! This Brazilian guy has no idea about escalation!
I'd build TWO Urutaus. And a bazooka.
It really is a statement divorced from reality.
"Countering" is a 50% improvement at best. Your initial probability of being shot correlates with the number of other people with guns. Ideally zero.
Is ammunition also controlled? Are people DIYing ammo as well?
Yes, you need a current licence for a firearm matching the ammunition being purchased to legally purchase ammunition. The black market rate on even low calibre ammunition is rather prohibitive.
There's a whole chain of checks and balances to acquire a firearm licence including gun club membership and a sponsor, and therefore get access to ammunition.