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S.B. SENATB455 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article 11, 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 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, 
ammunitions 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 preyent crimes committed with the use of firearms, 
ammunitions, and explosives by prohibiting their sale to or acquisition of certain types of 
persons who possess attributes that make them unfit to own firearms, ammunitions and 
explosives. 
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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC ) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
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 House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Firearms Disposition 
Regularization Act.” 
SECTION 2. Declaration of State 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 any ammunition or cartridge cases, primers, 
bullets, or propellant powder designed for use in any firearm. 
(4) “Explosives” means any chemical compound, mixture or devise, the 
primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion; the term 


includes, but is not limited to, dynamite and other high explosives, black powder, 
pellet powder, initiating explosives, detonators, safety fuss, 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 firearm 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 twenty-one 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 (1) year; 
(3) 
(4) 
is a fugitive from justice; 
is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, any regulated or prohibited 
drug a defined by the Dangerous Drugs Act as amended; 
(5) has been judicially declared insane or has been committed to my 
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; 


(9) Is subject to a court order that restrains such persons from harassing, 
stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or person, 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 
(i) Includes a finding that such person represents a credible 
threat to the personal safety of such intimate partner or child; or 
(ii) 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 firearm 
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 arresto mayor to reclusion temporal and 
cancellation of the firearm license. 
SECTION 6. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held 
invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or 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 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 at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved. 
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