On May 19, the Swiss will vote on whether to keep their cherished shooting traditions intact The hills of Switzerland will soon be alive with the sound of gunfire. The country’s largest annual ...

Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself. The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation ...

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, but little gun-related street crime - so some opponents of gun control hail it as a place where firearms play a positive role in ...

A piece I wrote last week on gun violence included a mention of Israel and Switzerland, societies where guns are reputed to be widely available, but where gun violence is rare. Janet Rosenbaum, an ...

GENEVA — Business at Daniel Wyss’ gun shop has been brisk lately in the village of Burgdorf near Switzerland’s capital of Bern. He said the increased demand for firearms is triggered by a growing fear ...

Switzerland has earned its reputation as a safe, neutral nation. Yet it's hardly pacifist or gun-averse. In fact, the small and stable country has the highest firearm ownership rate in Europe 46 guns ...

Switzerland has an entrenched gun culture that is embraced by most of its 8 million citizens, some of them as young as 10 years old. Every Swiss community has a shooting range, and depending on who is ...