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Taichung, June 8 (CNA) A Thai man handed a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for constructing a homemade firearm from old shovels, scrap metal, and pipes said he made the weapon in order to hunt for food, according to the Taichung District Court Wednesday.

According to the verdict issued by the court, the man, a migrant worker from Thailand, was arrested on Sept. 7, 2021, after authorities found him shooting birds by an embankment in Taichung’s Da’an District.

Police then confiscated the man’s homemade firearm, as well as gunpowder, and metal pellets he was using as ammunition.

The verdict said that the worker had assembled the firearm from shovels, discarded metal pieces, and pipes in his dormitory.

In his defense, the man said he had been using the weapon to hunt for food, with his lawyer citing the…