Posted on 05/19/2019 2:09:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Official preliminary results showed that 63.7% of voters gave their backing to new EU gun laws, including tighter controls for semi-automatic weapons.
A majority of voters in all but one canton, the Italian-speaking Ticino in southern Switzerland, came out in favor of reforming Swiss gun laws. […]
Swiss lawmakers had approved earlier reforms that the EU deemed sufficient to comply with its legislation; however, that prompted a huge pushback by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which gathered enough signatures to force Sunday’s vote on the measures. […]
Under the new gun law, semi-automatic weapons with high-capacity magazines would be listed as “banned.”
Collectors and sports shooters could still purchase such firearms, but would need to jump over more barriers to obtain an “exceptional authorization.” …
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idiots
This HAS to be a rigged vote!
I agree.
Something has been up with referendum votes across Europe.
Yeah, let Brusels tell you what to do. What could possibly go wrong?
Not so much they favor gun restrictions as they bend over in the face of EU extortion.
Swiss voters just shot themselves in the foot.
There are ways to deal with extortion besides giving in to it.
The Swiss have been chicken$hits throughout most of their history.
They were “neutral” in WWII in order to hang on to their money.
Yeah, yeah, Swiss Guard... tough hombres, but the population is...
like I said... Chicken$shits.
F ‘em.
Well, they won't be able to do that again.
Maybe stab themselves in the foot.
The government hands them a razor to slash their own wrists and they use it on their Jugular veins instead.
I wonder if this would include the semi-automatic rifles they may take home if they choose after completion of their military service.
There’s nothing rigged about it.
Europeans don’t believe in RKBA. Never have.
The Swiss aren’t your typical Europeans, which makes this suspect.
More gun restrictions = “tightening controls”.
More abortion restrictions = “dangerous, extreme, harsh, rigid, violations”
True, but the same forces that are melting away the rest of Western Europe are also being felt in Switzerland. It's just taking longer to be visible there. Also, the UN has one of its major offices there in Geneva, located in the old League of Nations building. This will not be the last of the globalists' anti-gun moves in Switzerland.
“The Swiss aren’t your typical Europeans”
They are now.
A comparatively small part of the electorate made them so. Let’s see if they reassert themselves or just assimilate into the hive.
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