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Officials vow to close gun loopholes

Many firearms, including war weapons, were seized following police raids in 50 provinces in October last year after the mass shootings and stabbings in Nong Bua Lam Phu that took 35 lives, 22 of them children. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)

Authorities will close legal loopholes relating to firearm classification and online sales as part of a stepped-up gun control effort, national police chief Torsak Sukvimol said on Wednesday, a day after a deadly shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall left two people dead.

The gun used by the 14-year-old shooter at Siam Paragon was modified and originally designed to fire blank…

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