NRA Loses Switzerland As A Blah, Blah, Blah Point
Aside from the Second Amendment, nothing gets NRA members harder than the gun laws in the Switzerland. The government actually wants their citizens to have guns! Guns are available to any law-abiding applicant! In half of Switzerland people can get licensed to carry concealed weapons! There are an estimated 1.5 millions guns in Swiss homes. It is like NRA gun nirvana.
Beyond this freedom of ownership, every law-abiding military-age Swiss male is issued a firearm and he must keep it at home to perform his mandatory militia obligation.
Switzerlands enlisted men are required to keep at home the STGW 90 assault rifle, which fires both full or semi-auto. Retired militiamen may buy their issued firearms.
For the 263,000 officers and non-commissioned officers, the issued firearm is a 9 mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol. For the millions of enlisted men, the issued firearm is an assault rifle: the STGW 90. When he retires, any Swiss militiaman who wishes to buy his issued firearm may do so.
Jesus, are you as rock hard as I am?
What the guntards never want to tell you is that while guns are in many homes in Switzerland they have always tightly regulated these things called bullets. Ammunition is pretty important if you want to use your gun. That fact hasnt stopped the NRA freaks from hailing Switzerland as the promised land of guns and bullets. But you better rub out your NRA hard on as soon as you can because its all coming to an end.
A new law will ban citizens from keeping ammunition in their homes. They will now be forced to keep it in a separate armory.
The senate on Wednesday voted 35 to five (with two abstentions) in favor of a policy that will require most of the 120,000 active soldiers in the Swiss militia army to store their ammunition in arsenals rather than at home. At an exception will be made for 2,000 men serving as first responders and the situation could change if new threats arise. But the new policy is regarded as historic.
Yeah, a historic boner kill. Those behind the ammunition ban arent finished yet, as they plan on introducing an initiative to ban all military weapons in homes. The gun control bill will create a national gun registry and ban the use of personal automatic weapons. Why? Because 300 deaths a year are the result of firearms in homes and 33% of all suicides. Many deaths are a result of domestic disputes.
The parliament this week approved restrictions on carrying dangerous weapons and the private purchase of firearms on the Internet without authorization. Under the new law, police can seize items such as baseball bats, metal pipes and chains if it appears they could be used as weapons.
So, basically, the Swiss decided that having 300 people a year die was a good reason for gun control. We have about 30,000 people die a year. We win. If the number of domestic deaths and suicides drops, what will the NRA say then?
Guntards Hate Bloomberg
Sweet Virginia, youre always there for me when I need a moronic story. This time gun loving Virginians are hopping mad at New York City Mayor and raging hippie, Michael Bloomberg. The mayor has filed a lawsuit against 27 out-of-state gun dealers for selling firearms illegally to undercover private investigators who were working for NYC. Bloomberg wants to force the 27 gun dealers from Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia to allow monitoring of sales. But Virginia is striking back, like a retard throwing a haymaker.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League came up with the idea of a Bloomberg Gun Give Away. It is fucking brilliant. Customers who spend $100 are eligible to win a handgun or a rifle in a raffle that will be held on April 19. The winner will receive a handgun or a rifle worth around $900. Two stores are partaking in this example of swift and brutal Virginia vengeance.
"The truth is, if Bloomberg hadn't picked on Virginia, we wouldn't have gotten involved. But he made the mistake of stepping into Virginia with this," said Philip Van Cleave, president the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
Well, consider him beaten. On one side, Bloomberg filed a lawsuit that caused two Virginia gun dealers to go out of business due to legal fees and two others to settle and agree to the court monitoring. And on the other side, the tough-as-nails Virginians started a raffle. Game, set, and match.
You have to feel for the Virginian gun dealers. All they were doing was illegally selling guns. According to private investigators running the sting, one person would fill out legal forms in order to buy a gun for another person who was not legally allowed to own a firearm. But now they are being punished for selling guns to people who could have been felons. Typical big city bullshit.
Bloomberg took aim at the out of state dealers because 90% of guns used in crimes in New York City come from out of state. But Virginia gun dealers see it from another point of view.
"The best way to get guns off the street and criminals off the street is to lock 'em up," Hill said. "They seem to want to pick on an old stereotype: It's so easy to get a gun in Virginia and run it up to New York. When quite honestly, you can break into a house anywhere and get anything you like."
So, let me see if I can get this straight: We should all have guns to protect us because someone might break into our house to take our guns. Gotcha.
At Bob Moates Sport Shop there are pictures of Bloomberg, Sarah Brady of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle taped to a shotgun rack. Bloombergs face is circled in pink. "Here are our worst enemy" is written below. Which is confusing, because either enemy should be plural or are should be replaced with is, unless of course the store is just looking to maintain that Virginia mountain feel.
Either way, the raffle is a success. One longtime customer claimed he had earned six or seven tickets and will probably buy more just to get back at mayor Bloomberg. Sadly, he will not get back at mayor Bloomberg because he is already a legal gun owner, which would mean the gun transfer would be legal. That is exactly what Bloomberg wants. The only way he could really get even with Bloomberg would be to give the gun to a felon and hope the criminal would kill a child on the streets of Brooklyn. Then he could yell a big and victorious, Gotcha.