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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (55064)10/29/2004 1:03:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
<To bring your rifle or sidearm out of your house and into public in Switzerland you must:
be wearing your military uniform;
the weapon must be unloaded;
you must be under orders to do so.
Violation of these requirements gives the police and the military (which means everyone) the right to shoot you on sight>

How would those "sighting" you and your weapon know that your weapon is unloaded? How would they know, on sight, that you are under orders, or not? Military intelligence I guess.

One could wander around in uniform with a loaded gun and no orders and nobody would be the wiser. They certainly wouldn't know to shoot one on sight.

<Before I left he reminded me that if I stayed with my relatives I was required to register at the police station first, with my passport. I asked him what the purpose of this law was. He rolled his shoulders in a way that made it seem like he thought it was incredibly obvious, "If something should happen, how would we know who did it?" >

Belgium was like that. When our son turned 12, they knocked on our door a week later and said we were supposed to have brought him in to be given an ID tag. We had to get approvals to live somewhere and be documented and stuff. In a way, it was a nice place to live - generally good behaviour of people.

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