switzerland has extremenly permissible gun laws and easy ability to buy fully automatic heavy machine guns (just can't shoot them unless the country is at war) very very few gun related deaths due to the lack of a swiss mental health crisis and an open embrace of firearm training as a cultural strength. image

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Soberano 2 weeks ago
Actually, it’s even worse… or better. Since Switzerland doesn’t have a standing army as such, all men have to do military service (though there are ways to avoid it). After finishing, they have to take the assault rifle home with them (in case they ever need to defend the country). Most men in Switzerland have an assault rifle in their care. That’s why you can buy guns—you can’t really do anything with them since everyone is already armed with a better weapon.
fully automatic weapons are in the prohibited list. Even the swiss standard issue rifle is modified to be semi auto only. In the army (militia training), we were allowed to convert the rifle to shot full auto maybe 2-3 times. Otherwise, modifying it to fully auto is illegal. (except for wartime, maybe that's where the misunderstanding was from). some additional info: In Switzerland, storing or transporting a loaded weapon is illegal. If you go to a range, you must load and unload your weapons at the range. The standard issue rifle that soldiers take home, must be stored without the bolt/striker inserted. After buying a gun, you're allowed to buy ammo for two years, after which you have to get another background check to resupply Most gun ownership in Switzerland is the standard issue rifle, that all militia soldiers receive as a personal weapon. which is basically all men + some women that join voluntary. They receive it when they are 20, and keep it while they are in reserves. After they rotate out, they can buy the weapon for like 100 bucks. A lot of people do, because it's a good deal, and why not @average_bitcoiner
Full-auto on a rifle is generally a complete waste of ammunition, unless ambushing at very close range, or doing a "tunnel of love" withdrawal from close range. I would love it if my country implemented this. (They won't).
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Lucid 2 weeks ago
Mhmmmmmmmmmmm I'm listening
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u32Luke 2 weeks ago
Sounds like CMP program for M1s
This is very restrictive compared to USA…you only need permission for machine guns and things like hand grenades (and suppressors and few other oddball guns) in almost every state (save Californians which isn’t really part of the USA). For everything else it is compulsory for the government to permit sale of firearms…even the permissioned guns like machine guns are compulsory sale, it’s just that there is a tax that must be paid first. Thats right: every American has the ability to buy a machine gun (but nobody can afford them as relatively recent laws require special occupation taxes for making new machine guns and old machine guns that exempt from the new laws are in short supply).
He would get to the eventual boss battle of the Fourth Turning sooner. Less people to feed once we all start shooting each other. Thinking we don't get there is normalcy bias.