Report of illegal firearm ends with Phuket ‘musket’ arrest

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Police seized the homemade firearm, which works on the same principle as the age-old musket. Photo: Thalang Police

 

PHUKET:-- Officers acting on a tip-off that a man on a rubber plantation in Srisoonthorn, Thalang, had an illegal firearm were in for a surprise yesterday (Dec 10) when they arrived to find the suspect in possession of a homemade musket.

 

Thalang Police Chief Lt Col Theerawat Liamsuwan and fellow officers moved on the location given in the tip-off, a hut in the middle of a rubber plantation in Moo 2, Srisoonthorn, at 3pm and placed under arrest 32-year-old Kumthorn Kongpun, who had been hired as the property caretaker.

 

Asked if he had any firearms in his possession, the amiable Mr Kumthorn openly admitted that he had, and explained that he kept it hidden under a nearby tree behind the hut.

 

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The police were surprised? If Phuket is anything like Khon Kaen they must also be blind. Those things are everywhere here in the boondocks. A local Mom and Pop sells the barrels and a local guy does the rest on order. They make their own powder and mold their own bullets. The igniter is a cap gun cap.