by magnolia_eic | Oct 17, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
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)
by magnolia_eic | Oct 17, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
POLICE authorities offer escorts and assure its presence along the way to the extreme adventure
town of Danao in Bohol.
“Tourists wanting to go to Danao can pre-arrange their trips with Danao Eco-Tour Advanture Park
and police security would be arranged from there,” said Pssupt. Constantino Barot, during the
monthly Talakayan Sa Isyung Pulis (TSIP) Wednesday October 13 at Camp Dagohoy in Tagbilaran.
This is the usual security arrangements with the adventure facility, and anybody who fails to
notify the park is in for a breach of protocol. It is safe however but for tourists who still have
apprehensions, coordination with the authorities could be done, Col. Barot explained.
“This is part of our assurance to tourists that the isolated case of highway robbers victimizing tourists
would never happen again” said PInspector Norman Nuez, Danao police chief.
It may be recalled that last August 22, some three vans loaded with tourists to Danao were flagged
down by highway robbers in Sitio Mabuhay, barangay Tabok of Danao and tourists were divested of
cash and personal belongings, Nuez reported.
No one among the tourists however was harmed.
Police thereafter conducted pursuit operations when investigatons revealed that at least some of the
prepetrators were local boys.
Subsequent operations pegged a score for the Camp Dagohoy based Provincial Public Safety
Company of special weapons and tactics officers when it succeeded in apprehending some of the
suspects identified in the Danao incident in a raid in Loon.
Acting immediately to reassure tourists of their safety, Danao Mayor Louis Thomas Gonzaga asked
the Bohol Police Office to augment police security and presence along the access routes to Danao to
ensure safety.
On this, Camp Dagohoy has installed police detachments along the way, using integral
poluce elements from Sagbayan, Inabanga, and Danao stations, Inspector Nuez bared.
Insisting that Danao is back on the track, Mayor Gonzaga said it has just recently hosted the
nationwide Thrill of the Trail race which brought to the town professional and amateur marathon
enthusiasts to compete in the 20 and 10 kilometer races. (racPIABohol)
