RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- "I don't know much about arms, I know art," says Rodrigo Camacho as he wields a replica AK-47 assault rifle that he made out of bullet casings in his Rio de Janeiro garage. A fervent admirer of the police, military and President Jair Bolsonaro, the heavily tattooed Brazilian artist creates pictures and sculptures out of ammunition casings discarded by police during training or by sport shooters. "My intention is to show that each one of these pieces passed through the hands of a police officer, a soldier, a sergeant, people who train to defend us," Camacho, 40, tells AFP. In his workshop -- a brightly-lit garage next to his two-story house...
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