This is a reasonable idea.
The Philippine armed forces are barely armed.
Starting to miss those US military bases?
I don’t know how good Filipinos are at making guns, but as targets, they were tough to bring down after the Spanish-American war, leading the US Army to develop the M1911 pistol.
Waste of time and money.
There is no Second Amendment in the Philipines.
Unarmed by law, Zamboangoans are at the mercy of armed muslim terrorists in the south.
.22 caliber would be a money maker !
I think Rock Island gets their M1911s made by a Philippine company, as do several others. So they have the expertise.
The Philippines are the number one source of 1911 clones.
Asymmetric warfare; mines and drones. They’ll never be able to compete in manned ships, planes and subs.
My father in law showed me a locally made shotgun for keeping birds out of the rice fields. Being a gunsmith for many years, it scared the hell out of me. The barrel was a foot of water pipe, a breech of various plumbing fittings, and not a badly shaped wood pistol grip like a big Contender. There was also a shoebox full of fired high brass 20 GA hulls from it and most of a box of unfired. I guess it got passed around the barangay for whoever had bird problems. It worked.
My friend who lives outside Manila for a decade can’t own guns but his wife sure has plenty. He requested some empty speer 38 shot capsules for the neighborhood cobras one time.