"We see that debtors own firearms, which are not an essential good," he said.
He also floated the idea of encouraging payment by way of allowing people to pay their base child support debt in a set period of time and avoid paying interest.
Furthermore, he said, Latvia could extend the range of countries in which it tries to collect debts from people who have moved abroad.
There were 37,000 people who owe child support in March 2018, and their number is growing as it has become easier to register a child support request.
However, payment discipline has been improving after Latvia started making child support debtors' names available online and taking away their driving licences.
