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Gun lobby misses its target as Swiss voters approve tougher gun control (Only 43.9% voter turnout)
Swiss Info ^ | May 19, 2019 | IRS Geiser

Posted on 05/20/2019 2:44:33 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Voters have endorsed a controversial reform of Swiss gun law to bring it into line with European Union rules.

Final results show the reform winning 63.7% of the ballot on Sunday. The result was much closer in some rural regions, though voters in canton Ticino were the only ones to reject the legal amendment.

Ownership of semi-automatic weapons will now require regular training on the use of firearms and a serial numbering of major parts of some guns to help track them.

(Excerpt) Read more at swissinfo.ch ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; eussr; fourthreich; switzerland
1,501,485 voted for gun control, 854,528 voted against.

43.9% voter turnout.

This is illustrative as to why it is so important to not only get as many people thinking in favor of freedom in 2020, but to get them to VOTE. Trump won by only 78k votes....

1 posted on 05/20/2019 2:44:33 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob
"Gun lobby misses"

They have the dreaded NRA active in Switzerland?

Who knew???

2 posted on 05/20/2019 2:47:39 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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tragic.


3 posted on 05/20/2019 2:55:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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You’ve got to admire how the EU-GOPE set this up.

They said no criminal information on EU people would be available without passing this law. So, the EU brings in millions of crazies and wouldn’t tell the Swiss that these people were crazy, when they came to the Swiss border.

That takes a special sort of stupid to use yourself and your own destruction against a sovereign country with strong gun laws.

4 posted on 05/20/2019 3:04:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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How are they going to make Swiss cheese now?


5 posted on 05/20/2019 3:05:12 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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Unfortunately, too many folks won’t miss guns until they’re part of a line up in front of a long pit.


6 posted on 05/20/2019 3:08:33 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DoodleBob

Schseizer dumbkopfen.


7 posted on 05/20/2019 3:54:14 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: doorgunner69

They don’t have the NRA, but they have their own equivalent, ProTell (the name is a reference to William Tell).


8 posted on 05/20/2019 4:20:12 PM PDT by Lurker51
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The executive Vp of ProTell wears very expensive lehderhosen.


9 posted on 05/20/2019 5:32:57 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Lisbon1940

Bwahahaha!!! (I almost can’t breathe because I’m laughing so hard.)


10 posted on 05/20/2019 5:55:01 PM PDT by Lurker51
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and a serial numbering of major parts of some guns to help track them.

Track them?

In case they escape?

11 posted on 05/20/2019 6:20:53 PM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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