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S E N A T E  
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Introduced by Senator LUI 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 5 provides: 
“The maintenance of peace and order, the 
protection of life, liberty and property, and the 
promotion of the general welfare are essential for the 
enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of 
democracy”. 
P.D. No. 1866 codifies the laws on illegal/unlawful possession, 
manufacture, dealing in, acquisition or disposition of firems, 
ammunition or explosives, and imposes stiffer penalties for certain 
violations. 
The law presumes that all licensed possessors of firearms, 
ammunition and explosives are responsible possessors and less likely to 
commit crimes using firearms, ammunition and explosives than illegal 
possessors. 
Consequently, the law covers only the unlawful 
manufacture, sale, acquisition, disposition, or possession of firearms, 
ammunition, or explosives. 
Numerous incidents, however, prove the 
contrary. 
This bill seeks to prevent crimes committed with the use of 
firearms, ammunitions, and explosives by prohibiting their sale to or 
acquisition by certain types of persons who possess attributes that make 
them unfit to own firearms, ammunitions, and explosives. 
For the foregoing reasons, the passage of this bill is earnestly 
sought. 
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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
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OF THE PHILIPPINE 
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First Regular Session 
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S E N A T E  
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Introduced by Senator LUI 
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REGULATING THE SALE, DELIVE 
OF FIREARM, AMMUNITION, OR 
OF PERSONS AND PROW 
THEREOF 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
Section 1. Sh 
. - This Act may be cited as the “Firearms 
Disposition Regularization Act”. 
Section 2. Declar 
- It is the policy of the 
government to prevent .lawlessness and violence caused by the 
irresponsible disposition or transfer of firearms and to regulate the sale 
or disposition of firearms by licensed sellers. 
Section 3. Definition of Ter 
. - A s  used in this Act: 
1. 
“Person” - includes any individual, corporation, 
company, association, firm, partnership, society or 
joint stock company; 
2. 
“Firearm” - means any weapon, including a starter 
gun, which will or is designed to or may readily be 
converted to expel a projectile by the action of an 
explosive; 


“Ammunition” 
- mean 
ammunition or cartridge 
cases, primers, bullets, or propellant powder designed 
for use in any firearm; 
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3. 
4. 
“Explosives” 
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means any chemical compound, 
mixture or device, the primary or common purpose of 
which is to function by explosion, the term includes, 
but not limited to dynamite and other high explosives, 
black powder, pellet powder, initiating explosives, 
detonators, safety fuses, squibs, detonating cord, 
igniter cord and igniters; 
“Fugitive from justice” - is any person who has fled 
from any place to avoid prosecution for a crime, or to 
avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding, or 
to avoid serving or continuing to serve sentence 
imposed by the authorized body. 
5. 
Section 4. 
Unl 
. - It shall be unlawful for any person, 
with license to sell, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any firearms or 
ammunition, to sell, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any fireann or 
ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe 
that such person: 
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1. 
is less than eighteen (18) years of age, and, if the firearm, or 
ammunition is other than a shotgun or rifle, or ammunition 
for a shotgun or rifle, to any individual who the licensee 
knows or has reasonable cause to believe is less than 
eighteen (18) years of age; 


2. 
is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court 
of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 
one year; 
3. 
is a fugitive from justice; 
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4. 
is an unlawful user of, or addicted to any regulated or 
prohibited drugs as defined by the Dangerous Drugs Act as 
amended; 
5. 
has been judicially declared as insane or has been 
committed to any mental institution; 
who, being an alien, is illegally or unlawfully residing in the 
Philippines; 
6. 
7. 
who has been dishonorably discharged from the Armed 
Forces of the Philippines; 
who, having been a citizen of the Philippines, has renounced 
his citizenship; and 
is subject to a court order that restrains such person from 
harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of 
such person or child of such intimate partner or persons, or 
engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate 
partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or 
child, except that the paragraph shall only apply to a court 
order that: 
(a) 
was issued after a hearin 
of which such person 
received actual notice and at which such person had 
the opportunity to participate; and 
includes a finding that such person represents a 
credible threat to the personal safety of such intimate 
partner or child; or by its terms explicitly prohibits the 
8. 
9. 
(b) 


use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force 
against such intimate partner or child that would 
reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury. 
This provision shall not apply to the sale or disposition 
of firearms to a person who has been declared by the Court 
to be relieved of any of the disqualification provided in this 
Act. 
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Section 5. Pen 
. - Any person found guilty of violating the 
provisions of this Act shall be punished with imprisonment of awesto 
mayor to reclusion temporal and cancellation of license to own or dispose 
a firearm, ammunition or explosives. 
Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, 
is held invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the 
provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid and subsisting. 
Section 7. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree, or 
issuance, executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule 
or regulation contrary to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this Act 
is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 
Section 8. 
et 
. - This Act shall take effect fifteen 
(15) days after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general 
circulation. 
Approved, 
GVL/tmd/ GVLjirearms