An Americans gift to Switzerland. GUNS!

Bug-A-Salt
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Bloke on the range
The Truth about Switzerland's Gun Regulations
https://youtu.be/FQ1vEo1x9qE

Swiss gun law.
https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19983208/index.html

Today we are talking about Christmas. Sort of.  So every year lauras family does this secret Santa gift exchange thing where everyone draws a name and you give a gift to whoever that person is. So this year I drew lauras brother and it sounds pretty simple you just buy him a gift right. But it is not that simple. You see I'm the only American in a group of swiss. I’m representing America here. I can't just give him a gift I need to give him a gift that would represent America. So I thought about it and I thought about it before and finely I knew what I need to give him. I'm going to get him a gun.  So that sounds pretty simple right you just buy him a gun and you give it to him. But it wasn’t that simple. You see I couldn’t find the gun I wanted in Switzerland, actually, I couldn’t find it in Europe at all. So I looked in the US and I found it with no problem.  But then the company that makes this gun says right on their website that they do not ship outside of the US. So how do I get it to Switzerland? Simple I shipped it to my brother and he shipped it to me.  So it is now on its way. I love it when a plan comes together.  So I know what you are thinking you cant just buy somebody a gun. And you are right you can't just give somebody a gun. And you are right you cant just buy somebody a gun. You also need to give them a gun case.  How are you ever going to make it in the outside world if you keep making a fool out of yourself?  So then I started looking around Switzerland for a gun case and as it turns out gun cases in Switzerland are very expensive.  So then I decided to make him a gun create instead of a gun case. Alright, the box is finished. I was supposed to look rustic and it does. Some of it is intentional and some of it not. Now, all we need is for the package to get here. But in the meantime, let’s talk about Switzerland and guns. Long before I moved to Switzerland or met Laura I had heard that all swiss are required to keep a gun in their house. So when I met Laura I had to know do you keep a gun in your house. The answer was no. But then when I Visited Switzerland her brother came home from the military and he was carrying a full-on assault rifle. Like semi-automatic, three-round burst, fully automatic, full-on military assault rifle. I was a little bit surprised because I come from the gun county of the world and we are not allowed to do that. You see the US military defiantly doesn’t let you take your service rifle home with you and fully automatic guns are very hard to get your hands on. So What is up with Switzerland and their guns? Well, Switzerland is kind of a weird county because they have a lot of people that own guns but very low gun crime. It is because of this that people that really like guns kind of use Switzerland as an example. They say look Switzerland has got a ton of guns and low crime they have low crime because of the guns. On the other side, the people that are not so crazy about guns say. Yeah, Switzerland has a lot of guns but it is their gun regulation. They have great gun regulation and that is why they do not have a problem with guns. So what are swiss gun regulations like? Well at a glance they are not so different than US gun regulations.   Both country’s give their citizens the right to own guns without a permit or a lessens or anything like that. But Buying guns is a whole other issue. In the US you have to have a background check unless you are buying it from a private individual like your friend or something like that. In Switzerland, you also have to have a background check and it is recommended that you do a background check when selling to a private person but it is not a requirement. Both countries allow you to have pretty much the same type of fire arms and both places allow you to have ammunition and to keep it in your house. However, buying ammunition is a little bit different. In Switzerland, you have to show that you can own a gun with a background check or something like that and in the US generally, you just have to show that you are above a certain age.  Probably the biggest difference is that in the US carrying a loaded firearm is considered your right.  Depending on how you carry it you may have to pass background checks take classes. However in Switzerland, before you can carry a weapon you also need to show that you need that weapon for safety or something like that. Switzerland is a very safe country so there is not a lot of need to carry a weapon so not that many people carry it. Another big difference is where you are allowed to shoot.