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Philippine Police Connive With Licensed Dealers to Smuggle Guns to Taiwan
5 March 2007
Manila Standard
Some police officers appear to be conniving with gun dealers in smuggling guns to Taiwan and other countries in Asia, documents show.
Investigators have recorded two cases of gun smuggling into Taiwan — one on Oct. 5, 2000, and another on July 13, 2006 — of 214 high-powered firearms from the Philippines. In both cases, police were able to track down five of 150 units of the British-made Heckler & Koch MP5A sub-machine guns, which were delivered to the National... (GunPolicy.org)