Dont get me wrong, getting a gun here means going inside the police main camps, get a drug test, background check, neuro psychiatric evaluation, then you get a license to own a firearm or firearms. Then you get a license for each gun you buy.
They have limit the selling of 5.56 and higher ammo due to the Marawi seige where the AFP found they used the weekly competition for the terrorists to hone their skill... no gun confiscations or buy back though