There are between one and three million guns in Switzerland, according to the justice minister, who described the situation as “worrying”. A "Small Arms Survey" by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva found that there are 1.2 million guns in private hands in Switzerland. Metzler said a central register would be a step towards increasing public security. She said it would better distinguish people who own guns for hunting or special collections from those who misuse them. Her comments came a week before the second anniversary of Switzerland’s worst-ever shooting spree. On September 27, 2001 a lone gunman...