DAGUPAN CITY (PIA) – The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO) has reminded all gun owners in the province to be responsible and not to illegally fire their guns during New Year revelries.
Police Captain Renan Dela Cruz, provincial information officer of the Pangasinan PPO, said individuals who will indiscriminately fire guns or illegally discharge their firearms in welcoming the New Year will be penalized under the law.
“To those who will illegally discharge their firearms, you will be penalized under Article 254 of the Revised Penal Code,” Dela Cruz said in an interview on Friday.
He said, “Any person who shall shoot at another with any firearm shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional (imprisonment of six months and one day to six years) in its minimum and medium periods unless the facts of the case are such that the act can be held to constitute frustrated or attempted parricide, murder, homicide or any other crime for which a higher penalty is prescribed by any of the articles of this Code.”
To avert indiscriminate firing, Dela Cruz said Pangasinan police are constantly conducting community engagement in line with the police program on a campaign against loose firearms and intensified campaign on Republic Act 10591 also known as the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.
He said in line with the program, Pangasinan police conducted four operations that resulted in the confiscation of one firearm, while seven and 11 firearms were voluntarily deposited and surrendered by their legal owners to Pangasinan PPO for safekeeping during the holidays. (JCR/AMB/EMSA/PIA Pangasinan)
