MANILA TIMES: BOBI TIGLAO - GUN BUSINESS BOOMS UNDER AQUINO
With the President as the poster boy for gun ownership, it is no wonder that demand for guns has ballooned, and the gun business in our country has boomed. The bureaucracy Aquino leads have loosened import restrictions that the country's imports of pistols and revolvers in his first full year in office, in 2011, have doubled to nearly 49,000 units, more than double the 20,000 average annual imports from 2001-2010 (see chart). If that rate continues, 270,000 new guns, a fourth of the currently registered pistols and revolvers, will be brought into the country by the time he steps down.
With the President as the poster boy for gun ownership, it is no wonder that demand for guns has ballooned, and the gun business in our country has boomed. The bureaucracy Aquino leads have loosened import restrictions that the country's imports of pistols and revolvers in his first full year in office, in 2011, have doubled to nearly 49,000 units, more than double the 20,000 average annual imports from 2001-2010 (see chart). If that rate continues, 270,000 new guns, a fourth of the currently registered pistols and revolvers, will be brought into the country by the time he steps down.
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