22 men arrested in police checkpoints
At least 22 people were arrested in the last two days for illegal possession of firearms and explosives and vote-buying in Cebu.
At least 22 people were arrested in the last two days for illegal possession of firearms and explosives and vote-buying in Cebu.
“Don’t panic if cops knock on your door. Talk to them and calmly explain why you failed to renew your gun license.”—Association of Firearms and Ammunition Dealers of the Philippines (AFAD) Director Reggie Reyes, saying that “Oplan Katok” of the Philippine National Police is an effective method to check all unlicensed firearms.
A four-year-old American boy shot and wounded a six-year-old friend in the head Tuesday, police said, the second such accident involving children in a day.
Operatives of the Eastern Police District (EPD) raided the other day three houses in Pasig City reportedly being used as hideouts by the cohorts of a convicted drug lord, resulting in the seizure of high-powered firearms, ammunition as well as illegal drugs.
President Barack Obama is emphasizing the need for more background checks for gun buyers in his State of the Union address, saying that overwhelming majorities of Americans favor the proposal as a way to keep firearms from criminals.
A 63-year-old woman was gunned down Sunday morning by one of two motorcycle-riding men soon after she and her daughter left a church in Quezon City.
The Senate has approved on third and final reading a proposed comprehensive law on guns and ammunition, authored by Sen. Panfilo
Lacson, that imposes Marcosian penalties such as at least 30 years’ imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms.
Two days before President Barack Obama’s first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried to settle a brewing mystery when it released a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter.
Even Americans who have never touched a gun are probably familiar with the looks and names of a few — the military M16, the action-movie’s Uzi, the historic Colt .45. The terms thrown around in the national debate over gun control can be harder to fathom.
What happened last Tuesday in court when a Canadian, a long-time resident of Cebu City, shot a prosecutor, a lawyer and a doctor in the Palace of Justice was very unfortunate and brings up another challenge for the Supreme Court.
POLICE have started going house to house as part of their campaign to urge gun owners to renew their firearms license. As of October, there were 21,592 firearms with expired license in Central Visayas, Supt. Rex Derillo, chief of the Firearms, Explossives Security Service Agency and Guards Supervisory Section (FESSAGSS), said in yesterday’s Talakayan sa [...]
The sudden surge of criminality in the country following what President Benigno Aquino III described as a string “of violence and recklessness when it comes to the use of firearms” since New Year has him worried about the peace and order situation in an election year.
Senate Majority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, who described himself as a “favorite whipping boy” of some people, wants members of the Senate to be included in the list of those who should be allowed to possess and carry licensed firearms.
