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English: Republic Act No. 10591 (Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act) PDF file on the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines website, signed by President Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2013
The basis of Republic Act No. 10591 was to efficiently improve and provide stiffer penalties on illegal firearm acquisition and possession. Presidential Decree No. 1866, series of 1983, provided the Philippines its first ever firearms and explosives law though not all criminal activities where covered by the law. While laws such as P.D. No ...
PROGUN is a firearms advocacy group based in the Philippines. The organization's name stands for "Peaceful Responsible Owners of Guns". It was founded in 1987 [1] to make it easier for Filipino citizens to own and carry firearms. Although it started off as a non-political group, it became heavily involved in political lobbying and advocacy ...
On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, into the U.S. Senate. [19] [20] The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [21]
Balarao (Also spelled as balaraw, bararao or bararaw) Used throughout pre-colonial Philippines; Commonly used by Visayans and the Mandaya people, where it is known as bayadau or badao. Balasiong (Also spelled as balacion, baliciong or balisiong ) Used by Muslim Filipino ethnolinguistic groups (especially the Moro people ) in Southern Philippines .
Since Obama was elected, mutual funds have raised their stakes to about $510 million from $30 million in the nation's two largest gun manufacturers. Since Obama was elected, mutual funds have ...
An October 2009 Gallup poll found that "Many Gun Owners Think Obama Will Try to Ban Gun Sales" completely, [7] and similar themes were struck in an Associated Press report: "Shooting ranges, gun dealers, and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages." The Gallup report said, "although the survey did not ask directly whether ...
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a pot-smoking gun owner in Texas cannot be prosecuted for violating a federal ban on users of illegal drugs owning firearms, saying it is ...