Phuket cops search home for kratom, find unregistered gun
Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- Police today (Mar 18) arrested a 76-year-old Phuket man at his home in Rassada for illegal possession of a firearm. They had initially gone to the property looking for kratom.

A team from the Narcotics Suppression Division of Phuket Provincial Police went to a property in Srisena Rd, Rassada at 11:30am this morning after receiving complaints from local residents stating that groups of people often would gather at the home.

Police said that after receiving the complaints, and before going to the property, they made investigations and discovered that in the past the home has been used as a krathom den so they went there this morning with a search warrant.

Upon arrival, police were greeted by home owner Prachum Klankularb who invited officers to search the premises.

Full Story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-cops-search-home-for-kratom-find-unregistered-gun-56666.php

-- Phuket News 2016-03-18

Walther PPK? Maybe he was a Bond fan.

Maybe. Looks like a Russian Makarov to me but the pic ain't much.

More and more Russian guns in Thailand.

According to the original story, it's a PPK.

They could search every house in Thailand and find an unregistered gun in every second place.

Walther PPK? Maybe he was a Bond fan.

I don't think it's a PPK. . It looks a lot more like the Walther PP...... not the PPK. There is a difference in the length of the barrel section. The PP being a bit longer.

Her Majesty's favourite secret agent carried the bit shorter Walther PPK. In some of the books, his PPK fired 7.65 x 17 Browning SR, (.32 ACP)

In the movies, he preferred his Walther firing 9 x 17 Short, (9mm Short, 9mm K, .380 ACP)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4sfXDD6oglU/Uvo4T29_dPI/AAAAAAAABOE/UYCTVtrSN5I/s1600/walther+014.JPG

What ever it is, does anyone believe a loaded weapon hidden under a mattress in a drug house, has belonged to the 76yo man for 30 years?