{"id":64281,"date":"2015-11-05T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64281"},"modified":"2015-11-05T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T02:58:05","slug":"lawmakers-on-adjusting-penalties-one-ammunition-can-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/05\/lawmakers-on-adjusting-penalties-one-ammunition-can-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers on adjusting penalties: \u2018One ammunition can kill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9960\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bullet-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9960\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bullet-gun.jpg\" alt=\"9ShutterStock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bullet-gun.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bullet-gun-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bullet-gun-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">9ShutterStock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 With the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act pointed as the possible trigger to unscrupulous law enforcement officers for the \u2018tanim-bala\u2019 (bullet-planting) extortion scheme, several lawmakers suggested adjusting the penalties on those found carrying one to three bullets.<\/p>\n<p>However, principal authors of the 2013 law, former Senator Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson and Muntinlupa Representative Rodolfo \u201cPong\u201d Biazon, were hesitant on only confiscating the ammunition and not imposing penalties on those found with the unauthorized possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne bullet found in the pocket of clutch bag of a person who has a past record of being a suspected assassin may be more dangerous than a gun enthusiast and shooter who has a box of reloaded ammunition in his possession,\u201d Lacson said in an Inquirer.net report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should instead look at the bigger picture when we revisit the law involving firearms and ammunition,\u201d he added, noting that exempting criminal liability on the possession of bullets did not guarantee protection from extortion.<\/p>\n<p>Biazon, for his part, supported reexamining the law but asserted that any proposals should be made with precaution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the issues in NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport), I agree with having a review of this provision of the law\u2026 [However,] ammunition is ammunition, whether one of two. It\u2019s still ammunition. One ammunition can kill,\u201d he said in the same report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 With the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act pointed as the possible trigger to unscrupulous law enforcement officers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":9960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-64281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}