This just goes to show how many people break the law like it’s nothing.
“As of Sat morning, May 14, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said, it has confiscated 3,495 firearms and arrested 4,237 people — 4,045 of them civilians — in its enforcement of the election gun ban which took effect Jan. 10 and will end June 8,” reports Jaymee T. Gamil in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report noted: “Of the confiscated firearms, 1,142 are pistols, 1, 028 are revolvers, 154 are rifles, 153 are shotguns, while the rest have yet to be classified or are improvised firearms. The PNP has also confiscated 37,441 rounds of ammunition, 283 grenades and 313 other explosive devices.”
The firearms and ammunition hail had PNP spokesperson, Chief Supt. Wilben Mayor pointing out, “The guns and ammunition we confiscated have enough firepower to arm five or six battalions of combat troops.”
Mayor added that the firearms will be subject to mandatory ballistics examination “to establish the possible involvement of these firearms in previous shooting incidents.”
The report explained: “Based on the procedure followed by the PNP since 2013, all firearms, cartridges and slugs seized during police operations, especially those recovered from crime scenes, shall be submitted to the PNP Crime Laboratory, which will then process them for cross-matching through the Integrated Ballistics Identification System. The system contains a database for bullets and cartridges recovered from crime scenes nationwide since 2011. As of January, the system’s database has records for 27,709 bullets and 163,430 cartridges.”
