00:00Local elections entail intense political rivals battling for the same elective posts and many of them find their security and protection
00:07against their enemies by carrying a concealed firearm
00:10Tucked tight in the waist of one's pants or by their security or supporters and the PNP on the eve of the campaign period kickoff
00:17Tomorrow announced roughly 700 firearms have been seized thus far since the gun ban period began
00:25Likewise the PNP announced three private armed groups are in active status in the provinces of Nueva Ecija
00:30Negros Oriental and the island province of Sulu
00:34Five more potential regions have been ID'd as locations with potential private armed group activity
00:39Namely regions 1, 2, 4A, 8 and the Bangsamoro autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao
00:46Though the number of guns or firearms are expected to climb beginning tomorrow up to the end of the stump period
00:52The police is confident to keep election violence in check and take all those who engage in political violence into custody
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