Posted on 11/30/2009 11:43:57 AM PST by mikelets456
I want one of those K-31's. (and the other stuff too)
A few sentence summary would be nice for those at work unable to play YOUTUBES.
I can sum up without even watching the video. GUNS and MORE GUNS.
The key to freedom is to be able to have the ability to defend yourself &, if you dont have the tools to do that, then youre going to be at the mercy of whomever wants to put you away.
Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.
The country has a population of six million, but there are estimated to be at least two million publicly-owned firearms, including about 600,000 automatic rifles and 500,000 pistols.
They don't have the social problems that exist in our country. Course there hasn't been a murder in my town in 30 years, not the same in OBama Land.
..so if I’ve run the #’s right, we’re way behind in pow-pow power?
Buy a K-31. You won’t regret it. They are worth far more than their price on the current US gun market. I bought one for $225 at the Tucson gun show last winter. I took it out to the range and fired three shots at 100 yards from a sandbag on a bench. The group was like a small three leaf clover right on the edge of the ring dividing the center target X from the 10 ring. Iron sights and my crappy middle aged eyes only. The old beechwood stock looks like hell but the damn thing shoots like a match rifle.
And yet the US has a higher rate of gun ownership per household by a good margin.
Being nuked into submission has a way of making people rethink their attitudes.
I assumed that was the reason but wanted a summary of the article.
Thx.
I bought a K-31 about six months ago. First time I shot at the range I had the strange sensation that I had a scope mounted on the rifle... had about same group as you.
Did your rifle have the previous owner’s name under the butt plate?
A much more important factor is having an homogeneous society in which people are more inclined to see their fellow citizens as almost being part of their own extended family, and not as oppressors who deserve to be robbed, raped, or killed.
Meanwhile, the video itself seems more concerned with making the case the guns are necessary for citizens to protect themselves from tyranny and their country from any attackers.
I don’t think so.
I’m guessing that the Swiss are a lot more serious about securing the borders than the US Govt. though.
interesting gun range shooting thru sound absorbing tubes. never seen that in USA. looks like a good idea.
I wouldn't like shooting through them at all--although it might afford some protection from any idiot nearby accidentally shooting sideways.
Anyway, I note they are still wearing ear protectors in the video.
In other words, the more the gubmint takes care of something for you, the less you take care of it yourself. Ergo we have many Americans who believe guns are for the professional army and the professional police.
In our country, which is a consolidated national government, I worry about compulsory military service. If we were a confederacy, as Switzerland is and as we once were, I would think it a good and proper idea, and would think that it would benefit the PEOPLE as a whole. With our all-powerful national government, I am not so sure.
Since we don’t have mandatory military service, I doubt that.
Maybe not. But it is fun to go into a restaurant and see people put their guns in the gun rack as they come in. Or lean them against the wall by their table if the gun rack is full.
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