PNP-FEO traders gun smuggling

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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