Gun dealers who were involved in the
smuggling of guns and other illegal trading will have their licenses defer, this
was the statement given by Secretary Manuel Roxas II.
Secretary Roxas issued a warning to
all dealers following a report that undetermined quantity of weapons are spirited
out or smuggled out on the warehouse of the PNP-FEO (Philippine National
Police-Firearms and Explosives Office) by gun dealers even before they were
officially registered.
"We have issued regulation
to gun merchants to show basis on why their rifle dealers' and licenses to
import sell should not be grounded. A team of audit and investigation will
trace missing firearms," Roxas said.
An initial report shows that couple
of private firearms under custody were unofficially taken out of the Philippine
National Police warehouse and sold to civilians with no proper certifications.
Roxas said that the audit
indicated certain gun merchants supposedly had 10 firearms stored in PNP
warehouse, but only 6 or 8 were accounted.
"Under its policy, every weapon
should remain under the safekeeping of PNP-FEO before the firearm is sold and
release to a purchaser, who complied all the requirements by FEO,"
he said.
Last January President Benigno Aquino
ordered the investigation of more than 900 missing high-powered weapons.
Five officials in the police were
directed to give details on the loss of those firearms, reportedly ended in the
hands of the New People’s Army in the Caraga region.
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