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    A referendum was held in Switzerland on 13 February 2011 on the federal popular initiative "For the protection against gun violence". It was rejected...
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    pertaining to the acquisition of firearms in Switzerland are amongst the most liberal in the world. Swiss gun laws are primarily about the acquisition of...
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  • Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification...
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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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    mortar/howitzers, the Swiss fortifications were armed with 75mm and 120mm guns, upgraded in the 1950s to 105mm and 150mm guns. The Swiss guns were typically...
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  • ProTell (category Gun rights advocacy groups)
    Gun-Loving Switzerland". NPR. Retrieved March 19, 2016. tagesanzeiger.ch 12 September 2016 "Swiss Overwhelmingly Reject Plan to Tighten Gun Control in...
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    attributable to gun violence in the United States. In 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's...
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    Zug massacre (category CS1 Swiss High German-language sources (de-ch))
    mass shootings in Switzerland "Gunman kills 14 in Swiss assembly". BBC News. 27 September 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2010. "2001: Swiss man kills 14". BBC...
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    European gun control directive (an update to the Schengen acquis) into Swiss law, is approved by 63.7% of voters. 27 September 2020: the popular initiative "For...
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  • Small Arms Survey (category Gun politics)
    partners. The Small Arms Survey was established in 1999 «on the initiative» of Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and «in conjunction...
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  • the Swiss pension system's "first pillar", and another on transposing the European gun control directive (an update to the Schengen acquis) into Swiss law...
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    can keep guns at home but not ammo". Swissinfo. 27 September 2007. "Switzerland rejects tighter gun controls". BBC News Online. 13 February 2011. Alpers...
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    all pro-European parties in Switzerland the SP is the largest and unlike most other Swiss parties, the SP supports Swiss membership in the European Union...
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  • treatment of mental disorders. Gun-control measures in a number of countries have seen a reduction in suicides and other gun-related deaths. Other preventive...
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  • The Swiss Armed Forces (German: Schweizer Armee, French: Armée suisse, Italian: Esercito svizzero, Romansh: Armada svizra; lit. 'Swiss Army') operates...
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    Leopard 2 (category Articles with dead external links from January 2011)
    machine gun; Dutch and Singaporean models use FN MAG 7.62 mm (0.3 in) machine guns; Swiss models use Swiss MG 87 7.5 mm (0.295 in) machine guns. 4,750...
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    to sidestep Swiss re-export ban". Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR. 15 December 2022. Germany to produce ammo for air defense guns sent to Ukraine...
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    Phalanx CIWS (redirect from Phalanx (gun))
    targets. An entirely self-contained unit, the mounting houses the gun, an automated fire-control system and all other major components, enabling it to automatically...
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    Laser weapon (redirect from Laser gun)
    2011). "How To Waste $100 Billion: Weapons That Didn't Work Out". forbes.com. Retrieved 17 January 2020. Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons "The Swiss...
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    for tax auditing and Swiss authorities may prevent disclosure. In December 2017, the Swiss parliament launched a standing initiative and expressed an interest...
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  • guns by France (Canon de 75 mle 1897), this attitude changed and the development became a great economic success for the company. On the initiative of...
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  • National Rifle Association (category Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States)
    lessened restrictions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Dickey Amendment, which blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using...
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    On 30 June 2021, the Swiss Federal Council proposed to Parliament the acquisition of 36 F-35As at a cost of up to 6 billion Swiss francs (US$6.5 billion)...
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    Open source (category CS1 Swiss High German-language sources (de-ch))
    adopt it in February 1998. Shortly after, he founded The Open Source Initiative in collaboration with Bruce Perens. The term gained further visibility...
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    main gun) to the right of the main gun. The coaxial MG is aimed and fired with the same computerized firing control system used for the main gun. On earlier...
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    Hornet to the Swiss Air Force as a replacement for Swiss F-5E Tigers before withdrawing from the competition on 30 April 2008. The Swiss Air Force was...
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    of the Swiss Oerlikon 20 mm had already started to provide protection for the British and this was adopted in exchange for the M2 machine guns. From December...
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    Battle of Glarus (1799) (category History of Switzerland)
    of 1799: the soldier in the armies of the armies fighting on Swiss soil. In: General Swiss military newspaper. 19 June 1915, pp. 214–217; July 3, 1915...
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    Saab JAS 39 Gripen (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2011)
    Typhoon. On 30 November 2011, the Swiss government announced its decision to buy 22 Gripen NG aircraft for 3.1 billion Swiss francs. In 2012, a confidential...
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    data from Swiss Federal Statistics Office aged 20–39; data from Swiss Federal Statistics Office "Swiss approve foreign criminal initiative". SWI swissinfo...
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