Loaves of sourdough bread now fill the display window of Suchart and Friends Gun, a firearms shop-turned-bakery in Bangkok's old quarter where pistols and rifles once lined the glass case.
Like all the gun shops in Thailand, it has been banned from importing firearms since a 2023 shooting at a Bangkok mall — one of several mass shootings, including at a school and a childcare centre, that have periodically prompted tighter regulation in a country with the second-highest private gun ownership in Asia.
