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Defending yourself with a weapon that is illegal for you to have in Thailand? You still haven't told us how you got it, an important detail maybe?

 

Well, for what it's worth you can own a gun in Thailand as a farang.

It just goes to show that although this story has hit the wall, some people need educating on this.

You can't Concealed Carry them legally, but you can own one for target practice down the range.

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A colleague's father-in-law gave him a nice Glock semi-auto for protection. He got worried about having it in the house and recently turned it in to the police on a lawyer's advice. The cops told him he could have got 7 years in the monkey house if police had found it in his house without a licence.

 

One is required to have a licence for a handgun in LOS. Can't even buy one without it. (Most pistols are owned illegally.) Unless things have changed non-Thai citizens cannot have a firearms permit. Some Farangs getting around it by having a permit in the wife's name. Otherwise, it is illegal - period.

 

 

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Most Thais disagree with the new gun ban

12 Sep 2003

 

 

Last month Premier Thaksin said that public opinions were needed to see whether the majority of the Thai population would agree with a new proposed law to regulate gun ownership in Thailand.

 

The Interior Minister, Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, proposed a new law to ban the sale of guns in Thailand to reduce violent crimes involving guns and firearms.

 

Under the proposed plan, the many gun traders in Thailand would be given five years to prepare themselves for other occupations. After the gun ban would take effect, only people with a license, the military and the police would be allowed to possess and carry firearms.

 

Most people in Thailand disagree with the government's new proposed policy on banning guns, reasoning that they need to own a handgun for their own protection and that of their families, according to a poll, made last week.

 

The poll was conducted by Bangkok's Ramkamhaeng University's Research and Development Institute on "Whether people in Thailand feel the need to own guns in today's Thai society". The poll was conducted on a random sample of more than 4,000 Thais.

 

The result was that 79% of the Thai population viewed that they should be allowed to own their own gun for their personal protection and their families from burglary, attackers and home robbery.

 

Others disagreed with gun ownership in Thailand, saying there is high enough safety provided in modern Thai society. While 63.8% said Thai police are currently performing well in the protection of people's safety and only 50.2% viewed that free gun possession could lead to more violence and crimes in Thailand.

 

The university poll further showed that 50.2% of the Thai population agreed that the proposed ban on guns would help solve the youth violence while 49.8% disagreed on that matter.

 

[color:red]Asked who could offer minimum safety and protection for their life and property, 19.8% said they have little confidence in security guards, 12.6% said they have no confidence in the Thai police and 10.3% answered they do not trust the military in Thailand.[/color] :xmascheer

 

 

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