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If you are a fit 18 to 34 year old Swiss male you are obliged to do military service when required, you are also issued with an assault rifle which you can keep at home. Not many people know that.
Would that be the right to bear arms like the Americans think they have...?
Further to my previous post. Forgot to mention:
Lake Geneva with the spectacular Jet d'Eau.
Just a 40 minute drive to beautiful Chamonix in the French Alps.
No potholes in roads!
Eating out is not horrendously expensive. Decent quality two course pub lunch with drinks for 4 adults & 2 kids in Worcester area costs about £120. Better quality 2 course meal in a restaurant in Geneva about £145.
No... it's not a right to bear arms, it's a duty to serve in the defence forces.
They are Reserves and more akin to our Territorial Army or the USA's National Guard. Except they keep their rifles at home.
... Except they keep their rifles at home.
So what's the point?MisterMicawber said:But not their ammunition.
Suicide by reserve military guns was disproportionately high in Switzerland, so they restricted ammo to save lives, realising it's fast to deploy when they report for duty.
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When I get home after the weekend, I'll pop a picture up if it's of interest.
Rigi Kulm caught my eye. When I was a small boy, I was given a small, engraved wooden box with a split level lid by an elderly neighbour, which had Rigi Kulm etched into it. I didn't realise at the time it was a matchbox, which has a novel way of being opened, presenting a challenge to those who don't know how to, and no-one ever works it out.
Nice box. Intriguing. Pic #2 looks like the flap opens to its full extension (are you expecting more?) and #3 shows a button centre top, which is depressed to open the flap?Well, here it is! It measures approximately 6.5 x 3 x 2 cm. There is a technique to opening the lid, which ordinarily will only slide back as far as you can see in the 4th pic, which isn't far enough to clear the guide post. Any ideas? It doesn't lift up and over, it slides back. I used to think it was a magic box (as a five year old, I hadn't thought about it being a matchbox!), but it makes sense, given the contents, that the lid should be lockable, but how? It's nothing to do with the broken circular fixing post, which was broken by someone lifting the lid up and over.
Nice box. Intriguing. Pic #2 looks like the flap opens to its full extension (are you expecting more?) and #3 shows a button centre top, which is depressed to open the flap?
The box looks too deep just to support that small lozenge shaped indentation. Perhaps there is a secret compartment in the base?
Incidentally, I just read up on Rigi Kulm (thinking before your response that it was relatively unknown in the UK) and it really has an impressive history and was hugely significant to Victorian travelers, artists and royalty.
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