Last week’s shooting at a wood-processing plant in Menznau, Switzerland, which left four people — including the shooter — dead and six others injured, is fueling a recurring debate about the country’s ...
The Swiss voted Sunday to toughen their gun laws and bring them in line with EU legislation, heeding warnings that rejecting the change could have threatened relations with the bloc. Final results ...
Switzerland, where gun culture has deep roots, has managed to avoid the charged national debates over firearm ownership that have consumed other countries. But in a state where compulsory military ...
Even as the gun-control debate rises again in the U.S. in the aftermath of the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the gun-loving Swiss are not about to lay down their arms. Guns are ...
GENEVA - Neutral Switzerland is among the best-armed nations in the world, with more guns per capita than almost any other country except the United States, Finland and Yemen. At least 2.3 million ...
Like Americans, the Swiss have an entrenched gun culture — it's not uncommon to see regular citizens out in the public with a gun slung across... What's Worked, And What Hasn't, In Gun-Loving ...
Two years ago–on September 27, 2001–a lone gunman shot and killed shot 14 people in the cantonal parliament in Zug, near Zurich. To the Swiss justice minister, Ruth Metzler, the country’s liberal gun ...
GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government blocked a shipment of pistol parts to the United States on Wednesday, citing the risk that they could be used to commit human rights abuses at their final ...
ZURICH, April 22 (Reuters) - The former chief of logistics at a regional Swiss police force has been jailed for eight months after he sold guns and bullets to undisclosed persons via the dark net. The ...
Neutral Switzerland is among the best-armed nations in the world, with more guns per capita than almost any other country except the United States, Finland and Yemen. At least 2.3 million weapons lie ...