Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - August 11th, 2023
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The Importation of Weapons of War in Other Countries
In October of last year, a recently retired police officer armed with a sugarcane machete in a six hour P365 stormed into a nursery school and killed 23 children and two teachers. He obtained through something what Thailand calls the welfare gun program which allows former police officers and military to buy at a very steep discount these pistols. All gun shops in Thailand can only sell roughly 15,000 pistols a year. That six hour contract, just the first of two flooded the country with 150,000, 10 times that amount.
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