Posted May 20, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

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Switzerland was in a tough spot.

By European standards, the country is pretty open to gun ownership. It has long supported the right to keep and bear arms on a continent known for infringing on sacred liberties with profound regularity.

Unfortunately, the rest of Europe couldn’t tolerate that. Despite no evidence of Swiss firearms filtering into the rest of the continent, the European Union threatened to close off the borders to Switzerland if it didn’t enact more gun control.

That was up to the Swiss people, and unfortunately, they’ve capitulated with the EU’s demands.

A wide majority of Swiss voters cast ballots Sunday in favor of enacting stricter gun control rules better aligned with European Union regulations, according to Reuters.

The binding referendum passed by a margin of 64 to 36 percent, according to the news service. While Switzerland is not part of the EU, it is part of Europe’s Schengen open-border system, meaning bucking Brussels on gun regulations could have led to the nation leaving the Schengen zone.

The EU enacted stricter firearms rules following a November 2015 mass shooting in Paris in which ISIS militants killed 130 people, with the new rules including tighter controls on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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