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New weapons intended to the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) were presented in an event held in Vilnius District on Wednesday. Border guards will be equipped with FN MINIMI machine guns and G-36 automatic rifles.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces has received a batch of MP7 A2 submachine guns worth EUR 1.3 million, the National Defence Ministry reports.

The Health Ministry and the Interior Ministry on Wednesday agreed to set up a team of experts to review the procedure for medical assessment of gun owners. Ways to introduce more frequent checks on gun owners’ physical and mental health are still under discussion, the interior minister says.

Lithuania's Criminal Police is carrying out a large-scale investigation into the sale of guns from the country's Weaponry Fund on the black market.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed President Dalia Grybauskaite's veto on the right to have guns during wartime.

The war on Ukraine and the increasingly frequent reports about the possibility of Russian aggression in the Baltic states has not led to mass purchase of firearms by Lithuanians, the growth remains stable and in accordance to the tendencies of the past years, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

Thousands of civilians in Lithuania currently own weapons that could be used for national defence and the number is rising. However, Lithuania is among the least armed nations worldwide, the weekly magazine Veidas reports.