Every house with an adult male Swiss citizen living there has a gun.
Not true. First of all it's voluntary to keep your gun after military service, and even if you do choose to keep your weapon it's illegal to have ammunition for that gun at home (with a couple of very small exceptions).
All of the Nordic countries have large national gun clubs
No they don't. They have local gun clubs for recreational target shooting and hunting practice, but I wouldn't call them particularly popular. I don't know anybody who shoots outside of hunting, which admittedly is relatively popular. And basically everybody still thinks that the US notion of people just carrying pistols around with them is batshit insane.
I think the Norwegian one has over 10% of the population as members, to dissuade Soviet and now Russian aggression.
What??? I grew up in Norway and lived almost 20 years there and never heard anyone claim anything even close to that.
Not true. First of all it's voluntary to keep your gun after military service, and even if you do choose to keep your weapon it's illegal to have ammunition for that gun at home (with a couple of very small exceptions).
All of the Nordic countries have large national gun clubs
No they don't. They have local gun clubs for recreational target shooting and hunting practice, but I wouldn't call them particularly popular. I don't know anybody who shoots outside of hunting, which admittedly is relatively popular. And basically everybody still thinks that the US notion of people just carrying pistols around with them is batshit insane.
I think the Norwegian one has over 10% of the population as members, to dissuade Soviet and now Russian aggression.
What??? I grew up in Norway and lived almost 20 years there and never heard anyone claim anything even close to that.