Posted on 03/16/2015 5:12:56 AM PDT by Travis McGee
This also reminds me of some people who moved to the peaceful Falkland Islands in the early 1981 to get away from the warmongering nations.
Then Argentina invaded.
You can run, but you can’t hide!
That, and it is a socialist hellhole.
Even in years past, Swiss citizen-soldiers were only issued a small quantity of ammunition with the rifle. The idea was simply for them to be effectively armed until they reached the assigned muster point (where additional equipment and supplies would be issued).
Rifle marksmanship is one of their national obsessions. There are public rifle ranges in every canton and a *national* shooting competition every few years (this year, IIRC) which will probably draw over 2,000 competing teams and over 40,000 individual competitors. Many Swiss citizens own privately-purchased rifles, so their capabilities are not entirely in the hands of the bureaucrats.
There's one odd thing, though: Despite making some of the world's finest sidearms, the Swiss view America's "gun culture" - as depicted in the media and in movies - as a problem related to handguns. It's as though they somehow cleanly separate the function of rifles from that of handguns in their minds. The former is good, the latter *could* be bad. Bicycling to the range with a true assault rifle slung across your back? Totally normal thing to do. Carry a handgun concealed? Unthinkable.
My friends in New Zealand say the Chinese are already in the process of buying up all the real estate, so invasion may not be necessary...
Swiss law is very restrictive to arms manufacturing - check out the SIG Sauer entry on Wikipedia, for example. I.e., they don't seem to make any at all.
NZ has clean air and clean water. That alone must be very tempting for the Chinese elites...
I think the Swiss reservists can keep a magazine or two of ammo at home in case they need it to fight to get to the armoryt but like you said, it would be wise to purchase your own to augnment your ammo supply.
BTTT
Bump
We’ve gone from 30 percent in 1960 of worlds population to the 9 percent by 2060
Negroid race will be 25 percent then from 9 percent in 1960 and Arabs will have mushroomed in same period nearly 800%
Two groups that are arguably the worlds worst at self government and violence
Why?
Abortion obviously
And white women are too selfish and self obsessed to procreate And white men are hapless living up to a TV commercial stereotypes
White culture ruled last 600 years and impact wise from far earlier in Mesopotamia
Asians will be our new master
We should be spreading the word of Christ to them as diligently as possible if for nothing but our own safety
A nihilistic anthropocentric East will have no mercy on us
Indeed they won’t, if events don’t take a non-linear turn first.
I used to post: Will the last European die in a Chinese zoo, or over a cannibal’s spit.
My guess is there will be a few non-linear tricks in our future, and when the dust settles, the total population will be a lot lower, and ratios will be rearranged.
It will take brains and organization to stay alive after the power goes out.
Awesome image.
I spent one of my R&R sessions in Auckland. Though their military is generally very good and the NZ SAS is superb, it'll be a case of too little, likely applied too late. The Aussies will very likely have their own problems to sort out, and the chances that the US will be in a position to assist the ANZACS in the next decade do not look promising.
And the enemy has been entrenched in the region and has attacked sporadically since 1915, for a bit more than a century now.
God help the ANZACS, and especially, the Kiwis.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
--T.S. Eliot.
In the days of the PE 57 in the old 7,5 caliber, they were required to keep a sealed can of Gewehrpatrone 11 (G11) ammo- the cardboard boxes are of 10 rounds [in a convenient six-pack carton], the military tins of 24, as I recall, the PE57 rifle having a 24 round magazine. The older straight-pull rifles had a 6-round magazine, and when I shot in a Swiss rifle match at Thun, there were about a quarter of the shooters using the older rifles, mostly the m/31 straightpull carbine. I had a rebarreled German Kar 98k, which several of the Swiss admired, and remarked that it was a shame that I'd be unable to shoot it that day, as they had none of the 7,92x57mm German ammo. Which was when I happily pointed out that it was rebarreled, and that I had reworked it with a .30 Browning machinegun barrel with a .308 bore diameter, chambered for, you guessed it, the Swiss 7.5 G11 cartridge. I did pretty well- I was a LOT younger then- but a LOT of the Swiss shooters did much better, having the *home court* advantage and several years of familiarity with their chosen tools.
As I recall, the cost for ammo at the match was about $0.04 per round. I took about 600 rounds back to Germany with me, things being a lot easier in those days. Oh, btw: those who reload 7.5 Swiss can use American .308 diameter projectiles meant for .30-06/.308 ammo, including tracer and AP. Which was one of the reasons I reworked my K98 to that caliber.
I don't know how it is now that the Swiss have the SIG 550 rifles in 5,56mm. But I'd bet it's pret' near the same.
That's just a marketing problem. Throw a few crocodiles in there and call it a petting zoo.
A slight historical perspective (and it fits with the excellent movie you recommended) - "you can take it, but can you hold it?" is the classical question in these scenarios, and there is a positive answer - yes, you can hold it if you dispose of all of the original inhabitants. In an isolated valley or a small island nation, yes, you can dispose of the original inhabitants. Cheery business.
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