(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Wed Mar 18 03:26:02 PDT 2009
Tim Walters wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> However, 60% of Swiss men aged 18-34 keep rifles and other firearms
>> belonging to the army at home as part of their conscripted and reserve
>> military service.
>
> Is there any reason to think that isn't included in the ownership figure?
You can find a well-sourced report on the Swiss' gun-keeping habits here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
In short, there are about 420,000 state-owned weapons at home, 320,000
pistols and rifles retired from military service with automatic fire
disabled, and a minimum of hundreds of thousands of other semi-auto
firearms in a nation 7.7 million.
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