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In Brazil, the sale of ammunition by collectors, shooters and hunters (CACs) is prohibited. However, members of the category manage to evade the inspection of the Army, the body responsible for controlling the CACs, and set up real clandestine ammunition factories in their homes.
Through access to police inquiries, it is discovered the illegal production of cartridges for sale by six CACs in four different states since 2016. In these places, collectors and shooters use machines and presses to fill old cartridge cases with gunpowder and produce, on a large scale, new, reloaded and ready-to-use ammunition.
CACs are allowed to buy gunpowder and reload projectiles, but only in small amounts, for their own use. The ban on reloading at scale and selling is intended to prevent this type of projectile – very difficult to track – from falling into the hands of criminals.
