The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 18 Mar 2009, 10:26 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:26:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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Tim Walters wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 
>> However, 60% of Swiss men aged 18-34 keep rifles and other firearms 
>> belonging to the army at home as part of their conscripted and reserve 
>> military service.
> 
> Is there any reason to think that isn't included in the ownership figure?

You can find a well-sourced report on the Swiss' gun-keeping habits here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

In short, there are about 420,000 state-owned weapons at home, 320,000 
pistols and rifles retired from military service with automatic fire 
disabled, and a minimum of hundreds of thousands of other semi-auto 
firearms in a nation 7.7 million.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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