Hua Hin: Police claim teenager sold pen guns online

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Police claim teenager sold pen guns online
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- POLICE YESTERDAY announced the arrest of a 17-year-old man who allegedly ran an online shop selling pen guns in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Hua Hin district and his 26-year-old supplier in Chiang Rai's Thoeng district.

The Facebook "shop" reportedly sold more than 50 guns to customers nationwide, mostly youths, over the past two months.

Prakit Phromma, 26, who allegedly supplied the shop, was apprehended in Thoeng along with 13 pen guns, 25 bullets and pen gun components and tools, following the arrest of a 17-year-old man at a Hua Hin post office along with two pen guns and 25 bullets.

Police said the teenager told them he bought the guns and ammunition from a Chiang Rai factory house before reselling them to clients. Both suspects were charged with illegal use of guns for commercial purposes and selling guns to unlicensed buyers.

Metropolitan Police Area 8's acting commander Pol Col Reuchakorn Jorrajewuth commented that police often found pen guns used in many student brawls that led to serious injuries and death because they were cheap and easy to find on the Internet.

Separately, Reuchakorn said police searched 26 places reportedly involved in pen-gun selling |on Sunday and Monday. They |arrested 20 suspects and seized 27 pen guns, 708 pen-gun bullets, three pistols, one shotgun and two cartridges.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Police-claim-teenager-sold-pen-guns-online-30247009.html


-- The Nation 2014-11-05

[ClutchClark]

Look to be chambered for a small rimfire cartridge.

Plenty dangerous up close.

Not very comforting to think the punk next to you might have one of these handy.

Another good job by RTP--but I am sure the usual complainers will arrive shortly.

[NE1]

So if they were paid for online they should not have a problem tracking them ?

[robertthebruce]

Another day another piece of News, of Guns etc, all be it, a Pengun , but still dangerous in the wrong hands...

All bizarre to me,

[RigPig]

Enterprising and worrying. Guns are a real problem here combined with Crystal Meth use and "face" if they don't start clamping down on it, it will only get worse, it never gets better.

All this country needs is for the police to perform their duties properly and start showing the consequences of peoples actions to them, REAL consequences...

[PaulHamon]

So if they were paid for online they should not have a problem tracking them ?

cash deposited directly into an ATM... type Thai online sales tactic.

*** if *** the cash depositor was smart and though about the ATM cams.... CAP, SUNNIES, etc, etc and it'd pretty hard to identify.

[PaulHamon]

not to far away for thailand..

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6cf_1366946368

[SOTIRIOS]

...I hope they take the trouble to track the purchasers down....

...and go after the manufacturer and distributor..........

[Nemesis7]

What's worries me is the fact that more and more teen agents are geting involved in serious and dangerous nature of criminal activities.

Must try to motivate these young generation and make good citizen out of them some how or should I say, any how.