One late afternoon in a small barangay of Mendez, Cavite, five police officers were on routine patrol duty when they heard the sound of successive gunshots in the vicinity and found a man firing a gun into the air. The man saw the patrol and immediately ran away to a nearby house where the police officers pursued him. They found two (2) slightly inebriated individuals drinking on the porch of the house. The inebriated individuals informed the police men that the man they were chasing had already escaped through the window of the house.

One of the police men, however, observed a noticeable bulge around the waist of one of the men who later on admitted he was carrying a .38 caliber revolver. Moreover, he did not have a valid license to carry the firearm, which led to the confiscation of his revolver. The policeman asked the owner of the house if he could search the house for the man firing the gun, and the owner consented. In the sala, they found more firearms as well as other paraphernalia used in the repair and manufacture of firearms. Both the owner of the house and the individual carrying the firearm were indicted for illegal possession of firearms under Sec. 1, Presidential Decree No. 1866.

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