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Remulla calls for tougher laws vs gunowners

Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, in a press briefing on Aug. 19, 2026, calls for a more comprehensive law that will hold negligent firearm owners criminally liable when their registered weapons fall in the hands of others, especially when used in crimes, following the fatal shooting at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University junior high school campus on Aug. 18.

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00:01Sa dalawang nakaraan na, sa dalawang nakaraan na shooting sa mga sekwela,
00:06pareho siya ng government o government issued fire arrives to qualify personal.
00:12Ngunit, sa pareho ang bagay ay hindi nalagaan si mga pen.
00:16Ang penalty, ang penalty ng paggamit ng legal laws, kung kinuwanan ng bata, ang gilalik ng baba,
00:29kinuwanan ng bata at pareho sa mga mula at sa gardya.
00:34Ang penalty ay reckless impudence naman.
00:38Walang penalty ang kihawag ng bata, ang kihari ng bata.
00:43Ang penalty sa bata na bumaral ay, ano lang sila, treated as a juvenile.
00:53Isn't the owner of the gun equally responsible?
01:00I followed by Congress due to review the laws of loose firearms.
01:04We went through the numbers.
01:0598% of gun crimes, 98% of gun crimes, are committed with loose firearms.
01:15The Novi Marilla Law, which extinguished culpability and made it available offense,
01:19has stepped on surge of crime because, precisely because, loose firearms is an available offense.
01:26I call upon Congress that it aims at the big laws that make it once again non-payable,
01:34that make it once again preventable.
01:37I call upon Congress to help us fight criminality,
01:42penalizing dismissed AMP and PNP personnel from owning, not only firearms, but also their uniforms.
01:53Recent crimes have been dominated by the use of the skins, the AMP and PNP personnel,
01:58using their previous uniforms, identifying themselves as police.
02:02That should be a crime as well.
02:18Well, thank you.
02:19For more information, we'll see you probably have.
02:19We'll see you guys next time.
02:19Bye.
02:25Bye.
02:29Bye.

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