Swiss gun shop

gunny123

You know a gunshop is going to be good when even an American is amazed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOErri-3Z5E

tac foley

Stolen.

Thanks for posting.

Brontosaurus

How hard is it to for a foreigner to get a gun license in Switzerland? :P

tac foley

Brontosaurus wrote: »

How hard is it to for a foreigner to get a gun license in Switzerland? :P

The words 'foreigner' and 'gun license' are mutually exclusive. Unless, of course, you are from the North of Ireland, or better yet, mainland GB, and are willing to travel pay a LOT of money to join the British Alpine Rifles. This is from the blurb -

Welcome to the British Alpine Rifles!

The British Alpine Rifles seeks to uphold the finest British traditions of pistol and rifle marksmanship, offering opportunities for shooting which are no longer possible within her shores. It counts some very distinguished competitors among its members, but membership is not conditional upon shooting attainment. Whilst B.A.R. has limited opportunities for training complete beginners and recommends that applicants should also be members of other clubs that offer regular practice facilities, in principle it welcomes applications from safe shooters of all levels of skill and experience. Its youngest members have joined in their early teens, and its oldest when approaching receipt of the Queen’s telegram.


It was set up by a few ex-pats with Swiss citizenship and home addresses so that p*ssed-off UK citizens could still shoot their handguns in a gun-friendly society.

Imagine, a federally-supported gun club set up so that FOREIGNERS, and ONLY foreigners, could continue to enjoy the sport they love! Unimaginable, but true.

Have you seen the Youtube site 'bloke on the range'? He is a Brit who lives and works in CH - might even have a Swiss wife, qui sait? - but his movies are always entertaining and very informative. His sidekick, chap, is another in similar circumstances. His shooting antics with lindybeige, another great Youtube watch, are very worthwhile seeing.

gunny123

If you are from a western european country then it is relatively straight forward to get shooting legally. However people from a lot of the eastern, former communist countries are forbidden to have a gun in Switzerland. I will see if i can find a list.

gunny123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TiN8gRZXw

Brontosaurus

It's scary that even Switzerland has their crazy anti-gun nutters, that woman 23:30 is a complete looney.

tac foley

'Fighting against arms exports', too. One of the largest manufacturers of auto-cannons, from 20mm up to 35mm, is Swiss. Oerlikon is the name. Over the last 100 years the company has provided jobs to Swiss workers, and outstanding quality armaments to the Free World.

The woman is deluded if she imagines that an independent nation can continue to exist without the means of defending itself.

Grizzly 45

Brontosaurus wrote: »

It's scary that even Switzerland has their crazy anti-gun nutters, that woman 23:30 is a complete looney.

Like stones,weeds and cockroaches globally,the antis will always be there too.:rolleyes:
However,like our crowd here, they are a nuisance and a minority in Switzerland where over 90% of the population is armed, have had some form of military training, and a great tradition of keeping arms,as well as a direct democracy system which is being used by peed off Swiss gun owners to maybe tell Brussels were to GTFO!

Grizzly 45

Here you go for owning a firearm in CH
https://www.ch.ch/en/acquiring-firearm/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland#Conditions_for_obtaining_a_Carrying_Permit

tac foley

Interesting.....................Citizens of Albania, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey are NOT permitted to (legally] acquire firearms of any kind.

gunny123

tac foley wrote: »

'Fighting against arms exports', too. One of the largest manufacturers of auto-cannons, from 20mm up to 35mm, is Swiss. Oerlikon is the name. Over the last 100 years the company has provided jobs to Swiss workers, and outstanding quality armaments to the Free World.

The woman is deluded if she imagines that an independent nation can continue to exist without the means of defending itself.

Its a coalition of the greens and socialists Tac, do you expect anything better from them ?

tac foley

Nope. Loonies, all.

tac foley

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Like stones,weeds and cockroaches globally,the antis will always be there too.:rolleyes:
However,like our crowd here, they are a nuisance and a minority in Switzerland where over 90% of the population is armed, have had some form of military training, and a great tradition of keeping arms,as well as a direct democracy system which is being used by peed off Swiss gun owners to maybe tell Brussels were to GTFO!

The family I used to stay with over there last time consisted of a great-grandfather [90-something], grandfather [70-something], two sons [forty-something] and three grandsons - 18, 16 and 14.



Like many traditionalists, the families all lived together in the one HUGE extended house, and like all like-minded Swiss, had either served or were serving - except for the two younger boys - in the Armed Forces. Every Sunday, after church, they'd collect a light lunch and go down to the village shooting range with their service rifles and anything else with a similar calibre that they fancied - a total of about twenty rifles and pistols. The late-afternoon would be filled with reprising the shoot and gun-cleaning.



The two sons were both captains, and each commanded a Milan anti-tank guided missile company. In the cellars there were, in addition to the usual stuff like very large freezers, a couple of heavily padlocked steel doors closing alcoves once used as a wine cellar. In there were a total of forty-eight Milan ATGW missiles in their containers - just in case.

meathstevie

tac foley wrote: »

The family I used to stay with over there last time consisted of a great-grandfather [90-something], grandfather [70-something], two sons [forty-something] and three grandsons - 18, 16 and 14.



Like many traditionalists, the families all lived together in the one HUGE extended house, and like all like-minded Swiss, had either served or were serving - except for the two younger boys - in the Armed Forces. Every Sunday, after church, they'd collect a light lunch and go down to the village shooting range with their service rifles and anything else with a similar calibre that they fancied - a total of about twenty rifles and pistols. The late-afternoon would be filled with reprising the shoot and gun-cleaning.



The two sons were both captains, and each commanded a Milan anti-tank guided missile company. In the cellars there were, in addition to the usual stuff like very large freezers, a couple of heavily padlocked steel doors closing alcoves once used as a wine cellar. In there were a total of forty-eight Milan ATGW missiles in their containers - just in case.

Jaysus Tac, that's a ****load of kaboom to store in one's cellar. There won't be too many invasion vehicles making their way through their local mountain pass any time soon.