Miriam gets high-tech handgun as Xmas gift

Don't mess with Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. She got a powerful handgun as a Christmas gift from her husband. The feisty senator revealed her deadly Christmas gift Wednesday, a day after she disclosed she is getting death threats. She said her husband Narciso Jr., a presidential adviser, gifted her with a "HK" or Heckler & Koch handgun. "Binigyan ako ng asawa ko ng mas mabigat na baril. It's an HK (My husband gave me a powerful firearm. It's an HK)," Santiago said in an interview on dzXL radio. Santiago's husband was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as presidential adviser on revenue enhancement. Heckler & Koch is a German defense firm that makes small firearms such as the MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle and the G36 assault rifle. It also makes the MP7 personal defense weapon, USP series of handguns and the high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle. On Tuesday, Santiago claimed receiving death threats which she promptly blamed on a member of the Arroyo Cabinet.
She also said the Cabinet member, who she did not immediately name, was also behind the filing of a petition to disqualify her in the 2010 senatorial elections. But Santiago said once the Senate resumes session in January, she would use her "parliamentary immunity" to name the official. - LBG/RSJ, GMANews.TV