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Greetings from switzerland
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Welcome from the land of ice and snow (Canada),
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Welcome to the Forum!
Wow, thanks to you all for the nice words! What a warm welcome. I was in Florida last year and I have to come back to travel USA some more! I want to see the Rocky Mountains and the open range of North Dakota.
@Gunz50: switzerland is very liberal when it comes to guns. Basically all you need to buy a bolt-action or break-action gun is not being recorded as a violent criminal (you don't have to be a citizen). To buy a semi-auto gun you need a gun acquisition paper from the government that you get, when you are not recorded as a violent criminal. Full-auto guns are prohibited for non-collectors (you can become a collector by having several guns for some time; its not written down when one will have a collector status and it is different from Kanton to Kanton (Kanton = County)).
As shooting is a swiss national sport and army is mandatory for all swiss men and we can keep our army weapons after service if we want, guns are nearly everywhere and it was not rare to see some teenagers walking through the village with assault rifles on their back.
It "was" because time is changing. Restrictive Europe Law (EU) is getting closer and closer to still liberal switzerland and modern times with a lot of illegal immigrants and acts of terror are calling for more restrictive politics. A "huge step" was made some years ago when swiss citizen decided that we want an big register of all guns to avoid acts of violence. Nobody could tell us how a register will help if a murder wants to kill people, but our folks were controlled by fear. Now all our guns get an ugly register stamp somewhere. My original Colt 1911 from Vietnam has it right by the muzzle on the barrel.
Ok, about my collection.
Motivation: I wont make a big secret out of it, but raised in the 90s, I've played a lot of (early) video games. Also some shooter (Dark Forces, Marathon, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Duke Nukem, Turok, later then STALKER) and all the guns looked quite cool there. The primal wish in me emerged to find a perfect gun, an everlasting tool that can escort me through adventures, like all the game heros have their signature weapon. A difficult task. Then by time, I developed an interest in cold war era weapons, the milled full steel guns made in and after WWII. After that, also the wish to have an all around collection with all the important milestones of (modern) gun history.
Collection: It startet with an SIG P220. Its our service pistol in swiss army (I was in the army as it is mandatory for all men in switzerland) and easy to get for a low price. Followed by a Makarov pistol (the vendor ordered the wrong one, an PMM instead of a PM) and now I have two of them. I also saw a High-Power in the store and bought it (it was cheap). I fell in love with the High-Power: slim body, simple and not sensible. And from there, I bought like three to four guns per year. I have now:
1x SIG P226
1x SIG P230
2x Browning High-Power (from Belgium)
2x Makarov (PM and PMM)
1x Tokarev* (Yugoslavian)
1x Vz 52 (Czech)
1x Cz 75 (Czech)
1x Colt 1911 (from Vietnam)
1x Colt Delta Elite
1x FN Five-seveN
1x S&W Mod 15-1
1x S&W Mod 60-15 (hunting side gun)
1x Proj Alfa .357 (Czech)
1x Skorpion Vz 65
1x NAA Mini
1x Ruger New Vaquero
1x Ruger .22 Mk4
1x Beretta 84
1x Glock 48 MOS
1x Manurhin F1
1x Walther Q4 SF
1x Walther TPH
1x Uberti .36 Black Powder
1x Enfield Revolver Cal. 38 S&W (used in WWII)
1x Swiss Revolver Modell 1882
1x Ruger Hawk Eye .300 Mag (my big game hunting rifle)
1x Ruger Mini 14
1x Swiss K31
1x SIG 510
1x Lee Enfield .303
1x Mosin Nagant
1x Tokarev SWT-40
1x Capra Summit-6 (my small game hunting rifle - on top in picture)
1x Rizzini BR110 (my small game hunting shotgun)
1x Izhmash Tigr (civil Dragunov)
1x Marlin 336 Zane Grey Edition (.30-30)
1x Remington 870
1x Remington 550-1
1x VZ-52/57 (Czech)
1x VZ-58 Sporter (Czech)
1x Vendu Sidna Mod. 22M3
1x Mossberg MVP .306
1x Sawed off K31 Rifle-Pistol (belonged to my grandfather)
1x unidentified Self-Made 4.3 ft long big bore Rifle (belonged to my grandfather too)
1x Chiappa M6 X-Caliber
Phew... good way to reflect my collection once again.
@Gunz50: switzerland is very liberal when it comes to guns. Basically all you need to buy a bolt-action or break-action gun is not being recorded as a violent criminal (you don't have to be a citizen). To buy a semi-auto gun you need a gun acquisition paper from the government that you get, when you are not recorded as a violent criminal. Full-auto guns are prohibited for non-collectors (you can become a collector by having several guns for some time; its not written down when one will have a collector status and it is different from Kanton to Kanton (Kanton = County)).
As shooting is a swiss national sport and army is mandatory for all swiss men and we can keep our army weapons after service if we want, guns are nearly everywhere and it was not rare to see some teenagers walking through the village with assault rifles on their back.
It "was" because time is changing. Restrictive Europe Law (EU) is getting closer and closer to still liberal switzerland and modern times with a lot of illegal immigrants and acts of terror are calling for more restrictive politics. A "huge step" was made some years ago when swiss citizen decided that we want an big register of all guns to avoid acts of violence. Nobody could tell us how a register will help if a murder wants to kill people, but our folks were controlled by fear. Now all our guns get an ugly register stamp somewhere. My original Colt 1911 from Vietnam has it right by the muzzle on the barrel.
Ok, about my collection.
Motivation: I wont make a big secret out of it, but raised in the 90s, I've played a lot of (early) video games. Also some shooter (Dark Forces, Marathon, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Duke Nukem, Turok, later then STALKER) and all the guns looked quite cool there. The primal wish in me emerged to find a perfect gun, an everlasting tool that can escort me through adventures, like all the game heros have their signature weapon. A difficult task. Then by time, I developed an interest in cold war era weapons, the milled full steel guns made in and after WWII. After that, also the wish to have an all around collection with all the important milestones of (modern) gun history.
Collection: It startet with an SIG P220. Its our service pistol in swiss army (I was in the army as it is mandatory for all men in switzerland) and easy to get for a low price. Followed by a Makarov pistol (the vendor ordered the wrong one, an PMM instead of a PM) and now I have two of them. I also saw a High-Power in the store and bought it (it was cheap). I fell in love with the High-Power: slim body, simple and not sensible. And from there, I bought like three to four guns per year. I have now:
1x SIG P226
1x SIG P230
2x Browning High-Power (from Belgium)
2x Makarov (PM and PMM)
1x Tokarev* (Yugoslavian)
1x Vz 52 (Czech)
1x Cz 75 (Czech)
1x Colt 1911 (from Vietnam)
1x Colt Delta Elite
1x FN Five-seveN
1x S&W Mod 15-1
1x S&W Mod 60-15 (hunting side gun)
1x Proj Alfa .357 (Czech)
1x Skorpion Vz 65
1x NAA Mini
1x Ruger New Vaquero
1x Ruger .22 Mk4
1x Beretta 84
1x Glock 48 MOS
1x Manurhin F1
1x Walther Q4 SF
1x Walther TPH
1x Uberti .36 Black Powder
1x Enfield Revolver Cal. 38 S&W (used in WWII)
1x Swiss Revolver Modell 1882
1x Ruger Hawk Eye .300 Mag (my big game hunting rifle)
1x Ruger Mini 14
1x Swiss K31
1x SIG 510
1x Lee Enfield .303
1x Mosin Nagant
1x Tokarev SWT-40
1x Capra Summit-6 (my small game hunting rifle - on top in picture)
1x Rizzini BR110 (my small game hunting shotgun)
1x Izhmash Tigr (civil Dragunov)
1x Marlin 336 Zane Grey Edition (.30-30)
1x Remington 870
1x Remington 550-1
1x VZ-52/57 (Czech)
1x VZ-58 Sporter (Czech)
1x Vendu Sidna Mod. 22M3
1x Mossberg MVP .306
1x Sawed off K31 Rifle-Pistol (belonged to my grandfather)
1x unidentified Self-Made 4.3 ft long big bore Rifle (belonged to my grandfather too)
1x Chiappa M6 X-Caliber
Phew... good way to reflect my collection once again.
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Hi from Salome, AZ.
Welcome from Arizona
Eluveiletie. You have a nice assortment of _'street fighters" there. I do not have any Canton Helvetia guns in my collection at the moment although I do crave a Hammerli target 22 automatic to compliment my S&W model 41
