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A very interesting article

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:58 pm
by MoA
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Sometime ago in Time magazine and compare it to the attitudes our mera Bharat Mahaan or the Nanny state of the UK.

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:06 pm
by cottage cheese
Imagine my daughter when she turns 16.... roaring down the Dimapur suburbs in a TVS scooty and a StG57 across the front.... :)

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:00 pm
by m24
cottage cheese wrote:Imagine my daughter when she turns 16.... roaring down the Dimapur suburbs in a TVS scooty and a StG57 across the front.... :)
Forget your daughter, cc, imagine you being able to do that. :)

Further on, something which I found on The Firearm Blog: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010 ... arty-2010/
Every five years the Swiss get together for a month long shooting competition / party. This year the Eidgenössische (Federal) Schützenfest was held in the city of Aarau. There were 2300 teams made up over over 45,000 individual shooters!

The infrastructure is mainly provided by Army and they were very friendly. This year the competition was held in Aarau (about 25 miles from Zuerich), with four shooting location, Rupperswil (the main one, with 120 shooting lines), Buchs, Suhr and Linsburg. You can shoot with anything that is or was army issued ("Schmidt-Rubin" Mousqueton 11 or 31, FASS57 or FASS90 for rifles at 300 meters, and swiss Luger, SIG P210, SIG-Sauer P22x, SIGPro, Glocks in 9 x 19 and Sphinx for pistols at 25 meters).
Regards

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:54 pm
by MoA
The Swiss do have decent gun laws an a healthy shooting culture. I do plan on going across the border soon, just waiting for the customs authorisation for my own STG 57... will post pics at the end of the month once she is home. (The gun... not the girl :P )

-- Sun Jul 04, 2010 18:55 --
cottage cheese wrote:Imagine my daughter when she turns 16.... roaring down the Dimapur suburbs in a TVS scooty and a StG57 across the front.... :)
One thing is for certain.. she will be safe. :cheers:

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:16 pm
by m24
MoA wrote:I do plan on going across the border soon, just waiting for the customs authorisation for my own STG 57... will post pics at the end of the month once she is home. (The gun... not the girl :P )
Best of luck on the stgw 57.

Regards

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:25 pm
by shooter
Can i test fire it?

Re: A very interesting article

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:43 pm
by MoA
shooter wrote:Can i test fire it?
I dont see why not. :cheers: