Gun crazy Swiss

[Shuckins]

Ahheeheehee!

My humor must be too subtle.  I poked fun at the boys and one of them took me seriously.  

Regards, Shuckins

[Viking]

I never take you seriously Shuckins.

[Shuckins]

I'm on my first real vacation in two years.   Ah'm a bit giddy!  

[Viking]

lol Have fun!

[Squire]

Ya, I did.

Did you?

"Air" guns (which aren't firearms, period), and some long excarerbated process down the road, a very small # can actually shoot some rifles if they belong to all the right groups ect ect ect...

Its effectively a ban.

I bet North Korea has a "free shooting society" too if you asked the govt spokesmen.

[Viking]

Originally posted by Squire
Ya, I did.

Then perhaps you should be more worried about your apparent failing eyesight.

Here, I’ll re-post the important sections and cut out anything that can confuse you:

B. Shot gun.

Prior to go to gun shop, you have to take practical shooting course,
followed by examination.

After the approval, you have the course at a shooting range and pass
it (it is quite easy). Then, you go to a gun shop, determine the gun
to buy, and ask clerks to write the paper.

You need to be at least 20 years old.

When you get notification from the police about permission,
you go to the police station to receive license booklet, take it to the
gun shop and receive the gun. Then within two weeks, you have to go to
the police station again with the gun to have it inspected and stumped on
the license.


SB - Small Bore rifle (0.22 caliber, rim-fire)
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A. Become a member of a branch of National Rifle Association of
Japan, then become a member of N.R.A.J. itself.
 
B. Participate in a few hour's lecture by N.R.A.J., and get certification.

C. Participate in at least two shooting meet per year before you apply for
SB.

D. Get certification of skill of shooting.
In case of shooting in Standing position, the score of criteria is
300 for S60, and 200 for S40. It is quite easy.

E. By satisfying above A,B,C,D, then you can apply for SB to N.R.A.J.
What you get if you pass the examination is recommendatory letter that
you are suitable for shooter of N.R.A.J.


F. Submit above letter as well as many other papers to the police station.
 
G. Take a practical shooting course at a shooting range, and get a
certification.

H. Apply for a gun to buy.


LB - Large Bore rifles (center-fire)
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There are two purposes you can use LB, one is sports shooting under
control of N.R.A.J., and the other is hunting.

A. For rifle shooting as sports, the requisite to apply for it are
as follows.

a. It is over one year since you have owned a SB.

b. You have already participated in 2 shooting meet per year with SB.

You apply for recommendatory letter to N.R.A.J., and follow the similar
steps (without practice course in a shooting range) as SB.
It looks only bolt action rifles can be allowed.

B. For hunting purpose, you must have continuous 10 years' history to
have own shot gun or SB. You simply apply for a gun to the police
station.


Now this seems fairly easy. Shotguns within a couple of months of red tape, and one safety course. Small bore rifles after a year or so of practice in their national gun club. Large bore rifles after another year.

[Angus]

Originally posted by Viking
Nope I do not snipe birds if by that you mean shooting them with a scoped small-game rifle like a .22 LR. I have thought about it though, but for now I only hunt with the shotgun (old Russian side-by-side I bought off my dad). The Mauser is an M98 "heimeværnsmauser". It’s a K98 re-chambered to the .30-06 round and used by the Norwegian army after WWII. I haven’t gotten around to scoping it yet, but I have to if I'm going to hunt seals this autumn.

SEAL KILLER LOL

Anyway catching geese off guard is quite rewarding...once you have them in the kitchen, and a .22 magnum is well enough, but it's okay to use a 223 too or something even bigger, just pick the bullets well so you have something to eat
Do you hunt reindeers too round your place?

[Angus]

Originally posted by lazs2
Ok then... I have no problem with your-0-peeean gun control so long as I am able to carry concealed any type of handgun I want.  and.. every other adult who is not insane can too.

And why not?   In the US there are no problems with concealed carry holders.   Why would anyone want to restrict them?

If your-0-peeans are so much smarter and fairer and better than Americans then they should trust their fellow citizens even more with firearms.

beetl...errr.. "ferndale"   I can take a picture of any US city and you will not see firearms in the crowd.. there will be firearms.. you just won't see em.

When there is a riot you will see em.. when a concealed carry holder or citizen uses em the 1-3 million times a year to stop crimes you will see em but... not in a random picture unless you are very lucky.

you euro girls are so funny... with your womanly gun control and socialist governments... your secularist panic over death... why not just crawl back into the womb?

lazs

Here is something to ponder on.
Imagine a town in the USA, of say 10.000 people where there is imminent danger and only one way out, and there may not be space for all. You have very little time for evac. Will you see chaos? And will you see firearms?

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by Viking
As of July 2006 there were 2,165,170 registered firearms in private ownership in Australia. That's one firearm for every 10 citizens. One in every 20 adult Australian citizens is a gun owner.

Good luck Viking, no amount of proof will sway this crowd.


Technically they are in fact right you know, it IS illegal for a private citizen to own any form of gun down here.

A gun being an entirely differant thing than a rifle, shotgun,pistol, revolver or other smallarm .

(couldn't help it, my uncle was artillery, wouldnt have a bar of anyone referring to a mere rifle as a gun)

[Viking]

Originally posted by Angus
SEAL KILLER LOL

Anyway catching geese off guard is quite rewarding...once you have them in the kitchen, and a .22 magnum is well enough, but it's okay to use a 223 too or something even bigger, just pick the bullets well so you have something to eat
Do you hunt reindeers too round your place?

Lol, yeah the Seals are considered pests here since they attack the fish farms along out coast. There’s even a bounty on them, not much of course, but it pays the ammunition and some of the traveling expenses. Note to the Americans: If we had dolphins we would kill them too!

No I don’t hunt reindeer here. If I did the Same would be hunting ME. They own most of the reindeer herds. It would be like me coming over to your farm and shooting at your cows.

[Viking]

Originally posted by Bluedog
Good luck Viking, no amount of proof will sway this crowd.


Technically they are in fact right you know, it IS illegal for a private citizen to own any form of gun down here.

A gun being an entirely differant thing than a rifle, shotgun,pistol, revolver or other smallarm .

(couldn't help it, my uncle was artillery, wouldnt have a bar of anyone referring to a mere rifle as a gun)

Hehe, good point.

[john9001]

Originally posted by Viking


Yes, but then again sometimes a gun is just a gun, like Freud would have said.
 

Sigmund Freud: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

[Angus]

Looking at his from Lazs again:
"you euro girls are so funny... with your womanly gun control and socialist governments... your secularist panic over death... why not just crawl back into the womb?"

I actually think this is a reverse. You're a scared person youself, and to the extent that you probably have to have a gun under your pillow to feel better. And if you have a criminal record and lived up here, the authorities would not allow you to have a gun at all.....in any case not a handgun.

And Viking...also a bounty on seals here I belive, but hte reason is ringworm.

[FX1]

Originally posted by Angus
Looking at his from Lazs again:
"you euro girls are so funny... with your womanly gun control and socialist governments... your secularist panic over death... why not just crawl back into the womb?"

I actually think this is a reverse. You're a scared person youself, and to the extent that you probably have to have a gun under your pillow to feel better. And if you have a criminal record and lived up here, the authorities would not allow you to have a gun at all.....in any case not a handgun.

And Viking...also a bounty on seals here I belive, but hte reason is ringworm.

I have no reason to be scared. Never had a brake in our any other crime comment against me our my family. Do I feel the need to carry a gun NO. Do i feel that having a gun is better than not having a gun YES. Your talking about culture differences. Yall like to throw stones we TEXANS like to chunk .45's. If you were a burglar and knew every house you broke into was a armed grandmother would that be a bigger deterrence than a over weight cop at the donut shop?

Come on, yall are disarmed for a reason. We stand for a individuals rights and the right to bare arms makes us unlike any other country in the world. Remember that the only person that can save your life is yourself.

[Shuckins]

Hmm....love to ship a few hundred-thousand of our gang-bangers to one of the "gun free" European countries and see how long it remains "non-violent."

I'll guarantee that you haven't seen anything like them since the 1940s.

By the way...the shootings of firefighters during the LA rights was not done by law-abiding gun owners.  They were done by the same criminal elements mentioned above.

As to New Orleans....well...the criminal element had its way unless opposed by gun-toting, law-abiding citizens.

Dem Cajuns shoot back.  Sho.