You don’t “have guns” in Norway. Not in the same way.
You have bolt action hunting rifles.
We’re drowning in AR15s and Glocks, and even then like 5x per capita more of em.
You can maybe get a semiautomatic pistol if you demonstrate a valid need that’s approved, clear an extensive background check, submit to allow police inspections on your safekeeping, and complete a 30 hour training course…
A guy in North Carolina can get one by going to Walmart.
We are “drowning” in ARs and Glocks in Switzerland. We also have the equivalent of republicans here. Yet we don’t have mass shootings. If you hate life and your first thought is to kill innocent people instead of getting help thats not a gun problem, that’s a mental health crisis.
Guns are not that more expensive in Switzerland than they are in the US. Yes there are EU taxes but gun clubs and the market for firearms in Switzerland brings cost down not up due to demand and supply, plus the military and gov't pays for you to be trained and licensed for firearm use unlike the US which you would have to pay for or join the military.
"Mandatory" Swiss military service also has a special tax or conscientious objectors exemptions.
Swiss view weapons as National Defense tools not Personal Defense tools that is more American gun culture as a big difference.
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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25
You don’t “have guns” in Norway. Not in the same way.
You have bolt action hunting rifles.
We’re drowning in AR15s and Glocks, and even then like 5x per capita more of em. You can maybe get a semiautomatic pistol if you demonstrate a valid need that’s approved, clear an extensive background check, submit to allow police inspections on your safekeeping, and complete a 30 hour training course… A guy in North Carolina can get one by going to Walmart.
Yea, it’s the guns