ILOILO City – Police found a homemade firearm on Saturday in a house in Barangay Santo Niño, San Miguel, Iloilo.
They arrested the house owner, Jefferson Barinos, a police report showed.
The 32-year-old resident failed to show pertinent documents proving his legal ownership of the .22 revolver with five bullets, said the police.
Officers search the house at around 6 a.m. on the strength of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Victorino Maniba of the Regional Trial Court Branch 39.
Barinos was taken to the San Miguel police station.
He faces a charge for violation of Republic Act 10591, or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act./PN
