Five of the 15 suspected Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) members arrested on Election Day in Tondo, Manila, were charged in court Thursday with violating the gun ban and illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.
More policemen arrived and surrounded the residential compound of Senator Ramon Revilla Jr. here in a bid to raid the senator’s ancestral home for high-powered firearms.
A candidate for mayor in Bohol is facing charges after several firearms and rounds of ammunition were found in his house where two militiamen were ambushed on May 4.
In 2012, over 5,300 persons were arrested for violating Republic Act No. 8294, or the law against illegal possession of firearms, according to the recent accomplishment report of the Philippine National Police. According to the report, the PNP also confiscated around 8,000 loose firearms in the same year.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Despite complaints of vote buying and the recent seizure of unlicensed firearms in Abra, Cordillera provinces remain secure for the May 13 elections, the Commission on Elections here said.
Senators struck a hard-fought compromise Wednesday that could expand US background checks to all commercial firearms sales, which may result in the most ambitious change to gun laws since 1994.
The family of the 17-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a police official in Bogo City, northern Cebu is asking for the help of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
The son of suspended Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia is not yet off the hook after turning over five firearms to the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) before the Holy Week break.
With the deadline over, police are looking for the friend of the son of suspended Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia for failing to surrender his firearms whose licenses have been revoked.
A MAN on Thursday was caught allegedly stealing money from the donation box of the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral in Cebu City.
THERE were no other persons involved in the deaths of two policemen in Cebu City after an autopsy showed that the slugs extracted from their bodies came from the guns they fired.
Days after his license was revoked, the son of suspended Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia turned over five firearms to the Cebu Provincial Police Office yesterday.
A taxi driver was shot by an unidentified gunman in an auto repair shop in barangay Hipodromo, Cebu City.
