As many as 242 gun owners live in the neighborhood of Stephanie Nicole Ella, the 7-year-old girl who was hit and killed by celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, records of the Philippine National Police showed. Of the number of licensed firearms owners in the Tala area, composed of four villages in Caloocan City, 45 are in possession of .45-caliber pistols, possibly including the one that killed Nicole, whose death has triggered public outrage and calls for tighter gun control. According to the PNP's Firearms and Explosives Office, there are 242 registered guns in Tala. Of this, 138 are registered under a security agency, which operates from the area, w...
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