ArmInfo. The Armenian government proposes to make additions and changes to the Law on Weapons, and to issue weapons to representatives of the SRC. Deputy Chairman of the State Revenue Committee Arshak Gasparyan stated this during the meeting of the Defense and Security Commission.
Gasparyan noted that the SRC employees, among a number of other duties, are also engaged in the fight against smuggling. According to him, in order to make this work the most effective, the SRC representatives need to be issued with service weapons. <According to the current law <On weapons>, a list of institutions has been established, whose representatives have the right to carry service weapons, however, the SRC is not among them. We propose to include SRC employees in this list. To learn how to properly handle weapons, the SRC employees take courses at the Police Academy, "Gasparyan said.