BANGKOK (Reuters) -&nbsp;Thai&nbsp;police&nbsp;arrested on Thursday&nbsp;four&nbsp;men&nbsp;suspected&nbsp;of illegally&nbsp;selling&nbsp;modified&nbsp;firearms to the teenager who opened fire in a luxury&nbsp;mall&nbsp;in Bangkok this week, killing two and wounding five.
Two of the&nbsp;four&nbsp;were&nbsp;arrested in the&nbsp;Thai&nbsp;capital and two in the southern province of Yala on suspicion of&nbsp;selling&nbsp;a&nbsp;modified&nbsp;blank&nbsp;gun&nbsp;to the 14-year-old, who has been charged with premeditated murder and illegal possession of a firearm.
"There was also livestreaming equipment,"&nbsp;police&nbsp;official Samran Nuanma told reporters outside the home of one suspect, adding that he&nbsp;suspected&nbsp;that sales took place on social media.
The men also had illegal firearms, tools to modify pistols and narcotics in their possession, he added.
Mass shootings are rare in&nbsp;Thailand, but&nbsp;gun&nbsp;violence and&nbsp;gun&nbsp;ownership is common. Ownership rules are strict, but firearms can be&nbsp;modified&nbsp;and obtained illegally, many smuggled from abroad.
The government also began closing legal loopholes regarding online sales in a bid to control the spread of weapons.
"The digital ministry will be shutting down websites&nbsp;selling&nbsp;blank&nbsp;guns," Jakkapong Sangmanee, the deputy foreign minister, told a separate briefing.
The government plans to ban imports of blank&nbsp;guns, BB&nbsp;guns and imitation firearms, its deputy spokesperson, Karom Phonphonklang, said in a statement.
It will also stop issuing additional permits for&nbsp;gun&nbsp;imports and permits for possession.
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(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Edited by Clarence Fernandez)

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Thai police arrest four suspected of selling modified gun to mall shooter