Police claim teenager sold pen guns online

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.