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If the Dir. of Public Safety has given the OK, then those ABC enforcement officeers are in fact, peace officers with full authority as any other law enforcement officer in Alaska.
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You didn't, however, address his question. The States have been enforcing alcohol laws since the repeal Prohibition (and beyond) and apparently the ABC officers have made it to 2009 without needed to be issued weapons.
So do they actually
need to be issued weapons? That was OP's question.
I don't think that we need to fall into the mental trap of thinking that every sworn officer with arrest and citation powers
needs to be armed by definition. I'll grant you that there may be more justification for an armed ABC officer than an armed IRS agent.
But the question is a valid one even if part of OP's post suggested that part of his cause for questioning was his lack of knowing whether they were actually officers.