r/interesting • u/GhostOfNihilist • 19d ago

SOCIETY A member of a gang nicknamed "Hellboy" was arrested in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, along with his revolver, which fires 12-gauge cartridges.

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u/BingWingleton 19d ago

They ain't lying when they say Brazil is just Fallout 4 

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u/MACHOmanJITSU 19d ago

Read its police are the only police in the world who issue m60 style heavy machine guns.

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u/superpolytarget 19d ago edited 19d ago

No shit.

Once i went to my mother's hometown in the country of a northern state.

They had 12 police officers for a city of 10.000 people, and they all sported heavy irons whenever they where seen around XD.

It could have been the most mundane ocurence, whenever they were called, they brought at least a shotgun with them.

And if i recal, i have never seen them firing even once, so it was just for aura farming.

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u/Due_Friendship6996 19d ago edited 19d ago

eu moro no brasil e aqui na cidade onde vivo a policia militar (tipo a policia normal que patrulha as ruas) anda com um HK416 e eu já vi eles usar contra um bandido que apontou um revolver para eles n foi bonito de se ver e aqui ainda tem uma lei que n deixa voce ter uma calibre12 de cartucho com vários chumbinhos mas pode uma altomática com um chumbo grandão

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u/Krieger_kleanse 19d ago

Dudes in Brazil are using warhammer bolters because 00 buck is just too much.

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u/CandidLeg3910 18d ago

This is leads to far fewer emergency surgeries needed for gunshot wounds but they need a bigger morgue, along with plastic bags for the brain matter.

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u/SwinginRicky 19d ago

With a Big Iron on his hip.

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u/neurodivergent17 19d ago

After Texas Red 🎵

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u/Chernoxis 19d ago

To the town of Agua Fría rode a stranger one fine day 🎶

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u/ThinkRise845 18d ago

M60 is a machine gun that is indeed heavy, but it's not a heavy machine gun (HMG). HMG is 50cal or above. The M60 is just an LMG (7.62 NATO or .308).

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u/Drunk_Stoner 18d ago

I follow some Iraqi police officer and they get a lot more then M60s 🤣

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u/makarov2002 19d ago

Aren't they still using silenced ww1 Mgs? If i remember there's a photo of a BOPE guy using a silenced madsen lol.

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u/Weavel 19d ago

Not sure how many are suppressed, but they do indeed continue using Madsen guns. Iirc they liked the penetrative power it gave them

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u/realgoldxd 18d ago

The regular issue for PM and bope in Rio (where they act) is a Brazilian version of the FN FAL, the FAL M964

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u/Ivan193kd 19d ago

JAJAJA XD