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When I was living in Thailand, I got chatting to an American would be retiree to Thailand in a bar.
One of the first things that came up in our conversation was guns. He asked me if I knew whether you needed a permit for a firearm in Thailand and if so how to go about getting a permit for a concealed carry handgun.
When I informed him that you did indeed need a permit to own and carry a firearm, and that as a foreigner, he didn't stand a cat in Hell's chance of ever getting one, He looked distinctly crestfallen, dare I say grief stricken, even. Our conversation ended shortly after that and I heard from other people who lived in the same hotel as he had booked when he arrived that he had decided that Thailand was not for him and had left the country altogether.
I'm not sure whether to find it amusing or sad that an American thinks that things are going to be exactly the same in other countries as they are in the United States or that the inability to own and carry firearms was a deal breaker for his retirement plans.