Less than a month before the midterm elections in May, authorities arrested two Singaporeans and a Filipino allegedly involved in gun-running activities, and confiscated from them assorted high-powered firearms, the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported on Black Saturday, April 19. The PNP’s...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested five persons for illegal possession of firearms during a one-day search warrant operation in Iloilo and Capiz provinces on April 7. The Police Regional Office-6 said that four suspects were from Iloilo and one was from Capiz. A total of nine firearms were seized from...
Six high-value individuals yielded P3.4 million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation in Bacoor City on March 26 (Photo from Cavite PPO/MANILA BULLETIN) CAVITE – Authorities apprehended six high-value individuals and seized P3.4 million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust...
photo: PNP-FEO Facebook page The Philippine National Police (PNP) has shifted to what it described as a more secure and efficient system of firearms registration following a cyberattack in...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga –The Police Regional Office-3 (Central Luzon) seized 603 loose firearms from Jan. 12 to March 3. PRO-3 Director Police Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo said 599 were short firearms and four were light weapons. Two-hundred thirty of them were from Nueva...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) vowed a more intensified campaign against loose firearms as the May election approaches. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, examines firearms turned over to the Cebu Provincial Police Office....
CAMP OLIVAS, San Fernando City, Pampanga – The Police Regional Office-3 recovered 260 loose firearms under the intensified Revitalized Katok campaign from Jan. 10 to Feb. 15. Police Regional Office-3 Director Police Brig. Gen. Jean S. Fajardo said the program strengthens the region’s efforts to...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 has seized 158 loose firearms, two improvised explosive devices, and 132 bullets as it intensified the implementation of the election gun ban in the Caraga region. “No letup on election gun ban drive as campaign period...
The Nueva Ecija Police Provincial Office reported that 459 loose firearms were confiscated and surrendered in five months from September 2024 to January 2025. LOOSE guns seized in Nueva Ecija. Nueva Ecija police chief Police Col. Ferdinand Germino said 100 loose firearms were confiscated in...
CEBU CITY – As a result of an intensified campaign, at least 430 unlicensed firearms were confiscated last month in various areas in Central Visayas. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, chief of PRO-7, shows a cache of seized firearms to Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary...
The Senate has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to improve Republic Act 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act. Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, sponsor of the Senate Bill No. 2895, said that the enactment into law of the bill would help clarify...
A 67-year-old man was arrested for allegedly making and selling unlicensed homemade firearms in Baras, Rizal. The arrested suspect during a media interview. Authorities confiscate alleged homemade firearms from a senior citizen in Baras, Rizal. (Photo from Rizal PPO) The Rizal Police Provincial...
