FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No 204 
INTRODUCED BY SEN. MANNY VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Presidential Decree No. 1866 codifies the laws on illegal/unlawful 
possession, manufacture, dealing in, acquisition or disposition, of firearms, 
ammunition or explosives or instruments used in the manufacture of firearms, 
ammunition or explosives. It also imposes stiffer penalties for certain violations 
thereof and for relevant purposes. 
However, this law does not contain any provision that makes it unlawful for 
any person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive 
firearms that are not detectable by metal detectors used by police and military 
authorities. 
If these non-detectable firearms will not be prohibited, metal detectors 
particularly those used in airports and seaports will be of no purpose at all for the 
public's security and safety. 
Moreover, the unchecked proliferation of such non-detectable firearms will be 
especially useful to terrorists in aiding them to perpetrate their terroristic activities. 
As such, this proposed measure seeks to prohibit the manufacture, 
importation, sale, shipping, delivery, possession, transfer and receipt of such non- 
detectable firearms. 
The immediate enactment of this bill is hereby sought. 
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SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 
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INTRODUCED BY SEN. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT 
PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREOF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
PROHIBITING NON-DETECTABLE FIREARMS, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Non-Detectable 
Firearms Act". 
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the State to 
protect public security and safety by prohibiting certain firearms especially useful to 
terrorists. 
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. - For purposes of this Act, the following terms 
a) "major component" means with respect to a firearm, the barrel, the slide or 
cylinder, to the frame or receiver of the firearms; 
b) "firearm" does not include the frame or receiver of any such weapon; 
c) "security exemplar" means an object, to be fabricated at the direction of 
the Secretary of National Defense, that is- 
1) constructed of, during the 12-month period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act; and 
2) suitable for testing and calibrating metal detectors. 
SEC. 4. Prohibitions. - It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, 
import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm- 
a) that, after the removal of grips, stocks and magazines, is not detectable 
as the security exemplar, by walk-through metal detectors calibrated an 
operated to detect the security exemplar; 
b) any major component of which, when subjected to inspection by the typ,e 
of x-ray machines commonly used at airports, does not generate an 
image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. 
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SEC. 5. Penalties. - Any person found violating the provisions of this Act 
shall be penalized with a fine of not less than One Hundred Thousand Pesos 
(P100,OOO.OO) or an imprisonment of not less than six (6) months, or both at the 
discretion of the court. If the offense is committed by a corporation, trust, firm, 
partnership or association or other entity, the penalty shall be imposed upon the 
guilty officer or officers of such corporation, trust, firm, partnership or association or 
entity. 
SEC. 6. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations 
or part thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or 
modified accordingly. 
SEC. 7. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect 15 days after its complete 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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