{"id":140607,"date":"2023-10-04T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/?p=140607"},"modified":"2023-10-04T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:37:21","slug":"thai-police-target-online-gun-sales-after-deadly-mall-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/thai-police-target-online-gun-sales-after-deadly-mall-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai police target online gun sales after deadly mall shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Thailand will close legal loopholes relating to firearm classification and online sales in its gun control efforts, its police chief said on Wednesday, a day after a teenager was\u00a0arrested\u00a0following a deadly shooting at a mall that left two people dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The gun used by the alleged 14-year-old shooter was modified and originally designed to fire blank rounds, meaning it wasn&#8217;t classified as a lethal weapon, and it was likely purchased online, Torsak Sukvimol said in a television interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Authorities were\u00a0preparing to charge\u00a0the teenage boy with premeditated murder on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">There are more than 10,000 such legally imported guns in circulation in Thailand, and police will work with other government agencies to reclassify them as deadly firearms to block their import, Torsak said<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">&#8220;We want to make sure these guns are a controlled firearm because their modification makes them a deadly weapon,&#8221; he told Thailand&#8217;s Channel 3 television channel.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Krisanaphong Poothakool, a criminologist at Rangsit University, said modifying a blank gun is illegal but perpetrators could easily learn how to make modifications and there were criminal services offering this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand will close legal loopholes relating to firearm classification and online sales in its gun control efforts, its police chief said on Wednesday, a day after a teenager was\u00a0arrested\u00a0following a deadly shooting at a mall that left two people dead. 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