Chuachart Pengpan seems happy to show police his
methods for making guns and ammunition.
Boonlua Chatree
An Issan man apparently building his own private armory in a Huay
Yai garage was arrested on weapons and drugs charges by Pattaya and
provincial police.
Visibly high on marijuana, Chuachart Pengpan, 39, was placed into cuffs,
laughing all the time, by officers July 29. Police said they caught him in
the middle of making a gun.
Police recovered a bevy of homemade weapons, including two .22 scoped
rifles, two 9mm handguns and a .22 pistol. They also recovered 287 homemade
bullets for eight different weapons.
The home gun shop also yielded a virtual warehouse of gun-making equipment
and parts, including a number of barrels.
Chuachart was charged with illegally producing firearms, firearms
possession, illegal possession of ammunition, possession of marijuana and
possession of methamphetamines.
Police said Chuachart explained that he loved to produce guns for his own
possession and had no intention of selling them. As for the drugs, he said,
they helped him concentrate and enjoy his work even more.
