Gun replicas included in gun ban – Comelec
MANILA, Philippines — Firearm replicas are included in the gun ban during the entire 150-day election period, for the 2025 midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) clarified on Tuesday.
Comelec Spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said that airsoft, airguns, imitation firearms, and replicas are also included in the ban and will be confiscated in over 1,400 Comelec checkpoints nationwide.
Laudiangco, however, clarified that “toy guns per se, readily and easily distinguishable from real firearms, are excluded from the ban.”
“That’s why the enumeration of what would be considered as firearms for purposes of the Ban are those which have the look of a real firearm,” Laudiangco told reporters in a Viber message.
The nationwide gun ban is from January 11 to June 12, 2025.
Article continues after this advertisementThe Comelec could deputize law enforcement agencies and exercise direct supervision and control over such agencies required by law to perform duties relative to the conduct of elections, like the enforcement of gun ban.
Article continues after this advertisementMeanwhile, the Comelec said the total number of gun ban violators has climbed to 31.
Most of the violators are from Central Luzon, with 10 violators, followed by Metro Manila with nine, three each in Bangsamoro Region and Northern Mindanao, two in Calabarzon.
The Ilocos region, Bicol region, Western Visayas, and Davao region have one arrested violator each, so far.