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A gun enthusiast holds up a 9mm carbine during the opening of the 29th Defense and Sporting Arms Show spearheaded by the Association of Firearms and Ammunition Dealers of the Philippines at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on Thursday, May 25, 2023. DANNY PATATwo organizations representing firearms enthusiasts and other licensed gun owners urged the government to beef up the country’s defenses and make it better prepared to repel an invasion by a foreign power.
In an interview, lawyer Ernesto Tabuhara III, secretary general of the lobby group Peaceful Responsible Owners of Guns Philippines, pointed out that despite hurried efforts to modernize the Armed Forces of the Philippines , it is still likely to find itself short in manpower if pitted against Beijing’s two-million-strong army.
Tabujara said that the incumbent administration’s recent decision to restore civilians’ ability to purchase “military-style” rifles, with bore diameters not exceeding .30-caliber, is a step in the right direction. He said an armed population would be a formidable deterrent against foreign states with expansionist ambitions if afforded some military training, allowing able-bodied individuals to be constituted into a “citizens’ militia” when needed.
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