Japan plans to abolish restrictions on the type of weapons Self-Defense Forces personnel are allowed to carry, after the SDF was allowed to use land vehicles to transport people in emergency operations overseas, a government source said Friday.
Under the new rule, the list of weapons the SDF can carry will be expanded from guns, rifles and machine guns to include items that are “necessary and appropriate,” the source added.
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