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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Handgun control, again...
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 16:35:45 EST
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>>Stange isn't it that I've never heard of a European organisation promoting
>>the free ownership of guns in Europe?
>
>What about Switzerland?  According to everything I've seen about that country
>everyone is required to have guns.  Not just handguns, either:  automatic
>weapons.  I've never heard Switzerland being described as a very dangerous
>place to be, either.

Rifles, and only adult males, who are normally in the Army and go on
some weeks of training each year.  The ammunition is kept in a sealed
box, which can be inspected at any time, and it is a serious matter
if the seal is broken.
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Martin Taylor
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