National Police chief Pol General Torsak Sukwimol on Thursday led a press conference to report the result of the operation, which aims to get rid of all kinds of illegal guns, including real guns, modified guns and blank-firing guns.
The police campaign came on the heels of the mall shooting incident in Bangkok on October 3, in which a 14-year-old boy used a blank-firing gun that was modified to take real bullets to open fire in Siam Paragon shopping mall. Two foreigners were killed and five were injured, before the suspect was apprehended by police.
Torsak said that between October 9-11, officials had investigated 3,224 suspicious locations nationwide and arrested 1,593 suspects. They also seized:
– 1,789 items of unregistered blank-firing guns and BB guns
– 219 items of firearms registered under different…
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