Gun Sales Surge In Switzerland As Army Chief Warns "Arm Yourselves"
It would appear the people of Switzerland have been listening to their military leaders. Having recently been warned by the Swiss army chief of growing social unrest, SwissInfo reports applications for gun permits in Switzerland increased by 20% between 2014 and 2015, according to a survey conducted in 12 cantons. But while the army proposes "arm yourselves," Swiss crime prevention officials warn against the false sense of security that guns bring.
Whereas in 2011 numerous people in Switzerland voluntarily gave up their firearms, today more and more people are purchasing guns.
Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, "The threat of terror is rising, hybrid wars are being fought around the globe; the economic outlook is gloomy and the resulting migration flows of displaced persons and refugees have assumed unforeseen dimensions," adding that "Social unrest can not be ruled out."
He further recalled the situation around the two world wars in the last century and advised the people of Switzerland to arm themselves...
And, as SwissInfo reports, it appears they have...
Applications for gun permits in Switzerland increased by 20% between 2014 and 2015, according to a survey conducted in 12 cantons by Swiss public television, SRF.
The survey, published on Wednesday, showed that in the 12 (out of 26) cantons surveyed, the Swiss are increasingly interested in purchasing pistols, rifles and other firearms for private use.
The greatest increase – more than 70% – was measured in canton Vaud, with more than 4,200 applications in 2015, compared with 2,427 in 2014.
There is a general climate of uncertainty and an increased fear of intruders, said Pierre-Olivier Gaudard, head of crime prevention for canton Vaud.
But Martin Boess, director of Swiss crime prevention, warned against the false sense of security that guns bring.
“When there are more guns in circulation, there is a greater danger for society,” he said in an interview on the 10 vor 10 news programme. “That’s shown by experience in places like the United States. When there are more guns, there are more accidents with guns.”
In Switzerland, with more than 8 million inhabitants, there are about 2.5 million legal weapons, around half of which are used for Swiss military service.
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And while the Swiss go about their legal business of arming themselves, President Obama is preparing to unleash another weapon - the executive order - to enact gun-control legislation.
Facing stiff resistance to gun-control legislation in Congress, Mr. Obama has signaled that he plans to act on his own. The president has directed administration officials to explore any steps he could take on guns without lawmakers’ help, and he said in his weekly address that he would sit down with Ms. Lynch on Monday “to discuss our options.”
“I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids to sit around and do nothing,” Mr. Obama said in the address, which was released Friday morning.
Gun-control advocates who are familiar with the White House’s plans say Mr. Obama could lay out multiple executive actions as soon as next week, and administration officials have confirmed that recommendations for the president are nearing completion.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Mr. Obama asked his team to “scrub existing legal authorities” and assess actions that could be taken administratively.
Free-dom indeed.
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Incrementalism has its merits...look at Boston after the footrace bombing. The coppers went door to door illegaly conducting searches and ordering citizens around like they were hostiles, hands on heads and all....and all the while the dumb ass people were chanting USA USA USA....Be especially uneasy when a people becomes so propagandized it glorifies its SWAT teams, The high majority of cops will follow all orders, lethal and otherwise, under group think and paycheck incentive. If they transfer them elsewhere then their families will become fair game and they will become useless as the power elites realize, which is why posse comitatus has been revoked as they don't trust that the cops will be able to provide seamless protection.
If you want to know what happens in full on SHTF scenarios you need to look no further than Bosnia. The police were around for a few days or weeks before they faded into the background.
Check out the blog site of SHTF School:
http://shtfschool.com/blog/
That dude saw order change to lawless chaos and lived through the nightmare that followed.
LEO's have lots of former military people that love their country and maybe even still like the public.
At the end of the day this is their job and some days they love it and some days they hate it. On most days they spend tons of quality time dealing with fucking assholes.
I'm not a big LEO guy cause I've run accross a few assholes like everyone else but at the end of the day they are just people doing their job.
Remember Kent State.
I think you're probably on the money.
But what I think is irrelevant. Because I could be wrong. And if I ain't got a plan B to cover that eventuality, then I'm a fucking idiot. A dead idiot, and my wife and kids laid out beside me.
So all you dreamers who think you're going to be saved by LE and the Righteous Military types better have a Plan B ready to go. And pray you never have to use it.
I agree that the past 7 years has been a period of conditioning the folks. Diminishing fourth Ammendment rights attacking free expression and the rise of political correctness and now the second Ammendment is in their sights. It only remains to be seen how and how many have been affected. For me I reacted in alarm. I moved to a rural area and have prepared for
tough times ahead. I trust less and .gov is at the bottom of that list. Others like the idiots mugging for the camera last night in Times Square may be oblivious to the shift in this nation. I don't know how many realize the totalitarians are on the March. If they are like me they don't discuss it with the general public but they are alive and their fingers are warm.
The old TV series V showed some pretty good examples of collaborator motivation under a totally repressive regime. I expect it to be worse than Nazi Germany or Pol Pot Cambodia as people have been more completely conditioned, made more helpless, and the govt has better records. Look at north Korea - no revolution there.
Milgram's experiments on how far ordinary people go to obey orders from authority figures strongly supports your opinion. So does the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The Stanford "prison" experiment along with the theory of cognitive dissonance are the two ideas that I recall vividly from my days at college. Probably the two most significant things I learned.
More likely to be international troops mixed with DHS types, imo.
That's how White people protest: we buy guns and ammo. Whether or not we actually DO anything [politically] constructive with them is another matter.
I wonder if the 'LE' will ditch their uniforms......
Who will be the world's #1 gun salesman, Swiss army chief or Obama?
He knows what's coming down the pipe and at least Swiss citizens have access to guns, unlike the majority of the EU who are at the mercy of criminal gangs who are armed (yes including governments)!
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/12/gangs-in-london-can-you-g...
New Years Eve hangover and vomits the spam...
So true, so true.
...from "Cat Ballou", right? How appropriate. Best thing Jane Fonda (pre-Hanoi Jane era) ever did.
(Nat King Cole in the movie as well...sad to read about his daughter, Natalie, dying overnight. Great talents, both father and daughter. R.I.P. Dear Natalie...there was one girl who desperately missed her Dad to the point of seriously "going off the rails" from a young age)
You didn't Emmenthal that yourself
Cat Ballou, I am here!
We should arm ourselves as in 2016 criminal putin regime will collapse and Russia will be in civil war situation. So yeah... should arm yourself if in EU, Russia or near Russia as there will be many refugees from Russia.
https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com/
Too much vodka last night ? Do you still have moonshine in Kiev ?
Zinu is the latest account of the banned troll newsoutlet.
The potato guy ? Figures...
They are all potato 'guys'
Yeah, but he was by far the most "prolific", I mean hungry...
In this brave new world the elites are trying to create you had damn well be armed since the other alternative is slavery....
Putin is making it easier for Russian civilians to gain access to firearms. Odd that.
He must hate freedom. Or something. Needs to talk to Obama and get straightened out.
Zinu not to worry, your position secure. Europe all knows Latvians the best toilet cleaners make.
Sign on my Wally new yrs eve" no ammo delivered today no 22 " pretty bare also. Noticed on my online gs favs. sold out no back orders. So yes it back again. Bought some 38sp shot shells for my 51 navy. Felt like Christmas . It's so hard to find. Ended up as presents . Had to go back and buy the rest
Paid 90 bucks for a brick of .22 last week.
Check this out if you aren't adverse to online purchasing: www.ammoseek.com
90 dollars for 500?
Ho LEE Phuk..
lessee that's um 15- 2,, carry the 4 ..divided by orange.. emmm
18 cents a round?
shit I can reload my 223 for that.
Yep, expensive competition ammo b/c that's all that was available. Not even jacketed, round nosed lead.
I been picking up good deals at Bi Mart to the point that I am passing on the .22 to let others have some. They had federal thunderbolts for 2.19 a box the other day. 2 box limit but it seems to be there or some cci every-time I go to town so i buy 4 as I drag the ole lady along with me. (As if I can go to Bi-Mart without her)
What is Bi Mart? Wal Mart?
Funny that the cheap Tula ammo at Wal Mart and many other places is made by the same Tula that designed and made the anti tank missiles (ATGM) that the Houthi (Yemen) are using against Saudi tanks.
These ATGMs are the old ones from the 1970s which may actually be Iranian or other copies. The shit works. They open up Saudi M1 Abrams (junk) like a can of tuna and an electric opener, They go off like a Roman candle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nDHV_mkiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ZTmtrl64o
Funny as shit seeing the Houthi's here in Saudi Arabia making short work of those shitty MRAPs that may be used against American citizens one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2G8vLrlH6M
They also too out Bradleys, HumVees, M113s and other crap. MRAPs are a joke. Houthis can take those out easey peasey.
Try http://gunbot.net/ammo/rimfire/22lr/
Nothing at Wally World ever but local Sporting goods here in South Idaho have had consistant stocking of .22lr, .22mag and .17HMR. $5-$10 a box of 50 depending on type or brand. Remington, CCI and Aquilla mostly. 300 bulk @ $24, 500 or 550 bulk @ $32ish. The best buy is now around $.07 per shell in .22lr. Primers and powder are reasonably plentiful. New unprimed brass is the most jaw dropping, from $.39-$1.00 each but in most calibres. Bullets are plentiful. Shot is plentiful but it all is pricey. Powders are about $25 a lb. All other ammunition, especially common as in .223, .308, 30-06, 7mm, .243, .38spl, .357, 9mm, 40s/w, .45acp, .380, 32acp is always in stock. Shotgun shells have never been scarce.
Speaking of shotguns, if you ever get in a bind and only have light skeet loads or bird shot, check out jutube in search engine "waxers".
It doesn't matter where in the world you live, the elites, or communist dictators do not want the people to arm themselves to protect their God given right to life.
Remember the old van Voght SF story The Weapon Makers? Nothing seems to change.
I think there is an echo in here.
Actually tho in all seriousness, when people say violence is not the answer, how in the hell are you going to get that pack of coyotes from killing your calving heifer and calf? Talk to them? FvK NO! you shoot them.
The butt clowns and special snowflakes who say violence never solved anything should talk to Hitler in whatever hell he's occupying now........
No guarantee Hitler is in hell. He might have been sent to insure Israel becomes a nation and fulfill prophecy.
He's on the beach in Belize with Bin Laden and Jim Morrison. Drinking Scotch.
They did call it "the Final Solution". And it was final for 6M+
Final for 6M+ germans my friend. Not so many jews.
Zios won WWII. That much is clear.
Final for 25 + million Russian Christians killed by non-Christian Bolsheviks. Many of these z-Bolsheviks were not even Russians.
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
- Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois
RIP R.H.
"Actually tho in all seriousness, when people say violence is not the answer, how in the hell are you going to get that pack of coyotes from killing your calving heifer and calf? Talk to them? FvK NO! you shoot them."
Violence seems to be the answer the .gov seems to give us.
Too bad for them, there are more than us than there are of them.
Yep, .gov tells us violence is the ONLY answer outside the borders of the US. Why would they expect it to be different inside?
Reap what ye sow.