Guns are rampant in Thailand, even if mass shootings aren’t.
But Thailand, a majority Buddhist country of about 69 million, has some of Asia’s highest rates of gun ownership and gun homicide. It is also a key underground market for firearms in Southeast Asia, and experts say that many unregistered weapons have been brought in from neighboring countries.
“Thailand is seen as the region’s principal arms black market, followed by Cambodia and Vietnam,” according to gunpolicy.org.
Mass shootings are rare in Thailand, but in a country with millions of firearms, the authorities have long worried about the potential for more gun violence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/asia/thailand-shootings-guns-firearms.html