As it stands, one of the easiest ways to meet all the requirements to own a gun in Brazil is by obtaining a sports shooting license, supervised by the military rather than the federal police which wants proof that an individual needs a weapon for self-defense. In a 2005 referendum, 64 percent of voters rejected a law banning the sale of firearms. But Brazilians remain attached to the idea of gun ownership. Without that law, the number of murders could be 12 percent higher, according to IPEA, the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research. Current tough law - Currently a 2003 law sets strict conditions on gun ownership, and prohibits the sort of concealed-carry permit as found in the United States. Seventy percent of those killings are from firearms, according to the Forum for Public Security monitoring group. The far-right politician has said he wants more guns in the hands of "good" people to counter rampant street crime that has seen Brazil take the top spot globally for violence, with 63,880 murders last year. Barroso and Brazilians like her are looking forward to eased gun laws as promised by president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who takes office January 1. However she candidly admits that the guns are also for "personal defense." "If someone broke into my home, I reckon I'd probably use a pistol rather than the pump-action (shotgun) which does a lot more damage - unless four men broke in at the same time," she said. By law Barroso must keep the weapons locked up at home, carrying them only to and from the firing range. She didn't however have to go through the usual compulsory psychology test and gun training - having done those when she bought the two Glock pistols she already owns. The 39-year-old Brazilian lawyer had to go through six months of costly bureaucracy to get her hands on her firearm after buying it in a licensed gun shop in Rio de Janeiro. But a single bullet from a handgun is not likely to be as deadly as one from an AR-15.Barbara Barroso couldn't hide her excitement as she stepped up to her lane wearing goggles and ear protectors: it was her first time shooting her brand-new 12-gauge Armsan pump-action shotgun. Handguns kill plenty of people too, of course, and they’re responsible for the vast majority of America’s gun deaths. You can sit there boom boom boom and reel off shots as fast as you can move your finger,” says Ernest Moore, a trauma surgeon at Denver Health and editor of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Surgery, which just published an issue dedicated to gun violence. Then, multiply the damage from a single bullet by the ease of shooting an AR-15, which doesn’t kick. That’s why, says Rhee, a handgun wound might require only one surgery but an AR-15 bullet wound might require three to ten. A swath of stretched and torn tissue around the wound may die. The bullet from an AR-15 might miss the femoral artery in the leg, but cavitation may burst the artery anyway, causing death by blood loss. When a high-velocity bullet pierces the body, human tissues ripples as well-but much more violently. When you trail your fingers through water, the water ripples and curls. These high-velocity bullets can damage flesh inches away from their path, either because they fragment or because they cause something called cavitation. If You Want to Stop Gun Violence, Start With Bullets Arrow
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