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Originally Posted by elphenor
Switzerland bans automatic firearms and also has a quarter of the gun ownership of the US
even still they voted to tighten firearm regulations within the last few years
the compulsory military service is the reason they have armed citizens to begin with, not the gun nut culture the US has
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automatic guns are also banned here. Unless you have a specific permit which very few people have.
But the real difference is Switzerland probably doesn't have the kind of gang violence we do. There are plenty of rural gun toting states where the murder rate also isn't an issue.