So much for the headline.
I'm not sure how they want to distribute or store this order of weapons, Venezuela 'to buy more weapons'(5 February 2006), but IIRC, I do recall that his Bolivarian Circles have already been armed, Venezuela: Chavez's key backers(19 March 2004).
Some of these figures are linked to the so-called Bolivarian Circles, described by the government as civil action groups giving a voice to the poorest sectors of Venezuelan society.
They range from neighbourhood groups working together to fill potholes to cyber-circles dedicated to publishing first-hand news accounts on the internet.
But critics argue that what they call the "Circles of Terror" have become an underground armed militia.