LOCAL police authorities have issued warnings against people who own improvised “thinner” guns as
these are now considered deadly weapons.
At the recent Talakayan sa Isyung Pulis, PSInspector Ramoncillo Sawan said Camp Dagohoy has
started confiscating improvised polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe barrel guns using compressed gas and
toy marble as projectiles.
We have run tests with these improvides guns and we agree that with its capacity to get its marble
projectile through a 1.4 inch thick plywood placed at a specific distance could ve bery fatal to
humans, police inspector Sawan said.
Bohol Provincial Police Commander, Pssupt Constantino Barot added that his tests also confirmed
that the weapon is fatal as it could deal a substantial damage to a banana trunk, which he pointed
out, is denser than a human body.
Police authorities also shared that several people use the improvised gun to scare off cattle and
livestock straying into their personal properties, but in the proactive side of things, keeping these
guns off would be pre-emptive against future crimes.
In the election season and with the implementation of the gun ban, the same improvised thinner
guns are outlawed.
It’s a simple contraption, explains a police officer after the TSIP forum.
“All you need to to is store the right amount of gas in a collecting chamber, often a plastic bottle
container and put in a gas exhaust vent that you channel to the PVC barrel,” he explained.
It’s sometimes called “thinner gun” because many would use the highly volatile lacqueer
thinner or lighter fluid into the pressure container to produce the powerful compressed gas.
“With the gas collected in the container, all you need is a spark for the gas to ignite and push its way
into the barrel, releasing the pressure that pushes the marble at incredible speed off the tightfitted
barrel.”
A simple lighter igniter, which can be taken from a disposable lighter works as improvised gun igniter
which produced the spark to ignite the compressed gas and you have a boom, he said as he gingerly
showed the gun operation to the media.
When that ignition happen, the last thing you would want to be is at the wrong end of the barrel.
(racPIABohol)
