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OF THE PHILIPPINES 
7 JUL -3 E0%6 
First Regular Session 
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S E N A T E  
Senate Bill No. 666 
INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
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 illegallunlawful possession, 
manufacture, dealing in, acquisition or disposition of firearms, 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. 


FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
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OF THE PHILIPPINES 
7 JUL -3 A10:OG 
First Regular Session 
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Senate Bill No. 6 66 . 
INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
AN ACT 
REGULATING THE SALE, DELIVERY OR DISPOSITION OF ANY KIND OF 
FIREARM, AMMUNITION, OR EXPLOSIVES TO CERTAIN TYPES OF 
PERSONS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled; 
Section 1. Short Title. - This Act may be cited as the “Firearms Disposition 
Regulation Act”. 
Section 2. 
Declaration of Policy. - 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 Terms. -As 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; 
3. “Ammunition” - means ammunition or cartridge cases, primers, bullets, 
or propellant powder designed for use in any firearm; 
4. “Explosives” - 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 explosives, black 
powder, pellet powder, initiating explosives, detonators, safety fuses, 
squibs, detonating cord, igniter cord and igniters; 
5. “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. 
Section 4. Unlawful Acts. - 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 firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or 
having reasonable cause to believe that such person: 


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: 
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; 
6. who, being an alien, is illegally or unlawfully residing in the Philippines; 
7. who has been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the 
Philippines; 
8. who, having been a citizen of the Philippines, has renounced his 
citizenship; and 
9. 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 hearing of which such person received actual 
notice and at which such person had the opportunity to participate; 
and 
(b) includes a finding that such person represents credible threat to the 
personal safety of such intimate partner or child; or by its terms 
explicitly prohibits the 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. 
Section 5. 
Penalty. - Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of 
this Act shall be punished with imprisonment of arrest0 mayor to reclusion 
temporal and cancellation of license to own or dispose a firearm, ammunition or 
explosives. 
Section 6. Separability 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 Cfause. - Any law, presidential decree, or issuance, 
executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation 
contrary to, or inconsistent with, the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, 
modified, or amended accordingly. 
Section 8. 
Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days 
after its publication in a least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,