The Ministry of Interior has agreed to impose a set of measures to control the importation, trade and ownership of blank-firing and BB guns, additional controls on the issuance of gun permits and a ban on youths under 20 entering shooting ranges.
The measures, specifically for blank-firing and BB guns, are in response to the shootings at the Siam Paragon shopping mall on Tuesday, in which the suspected shooter, a 14-year-old boy, used a modified blank-firing gun, bought online from a seller in Yala province, to indiscriminately shoot shoppers, killing one Chinese and one Myanmar national and injuring five other people, two of whom are in serious conditions.
Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today (Thursday) that he met with relevant agencies to discuss both short and long term measures to control such weapons, to prevent them from being illegally modified to fire live…
