ZURICH/GENEVA - Swiss voters agreed by a nearly two-to-one margin on Sunday to adopt tighter gun controls in line with changes to European Union rules, heading off a clash with Brussels.
The measure passed in the binding referendum under the Swiss system of direct democracy by a 64-36% margin, provisional final results showed. Failure to adopt the rules could have forced Switzerland to leave the passport-free Schengen zone and the Dublin joint system for handling asylum requests. The initial EU proposal provoked an outcry because it meant a ban on the Swiss tradition of ex-soldiers keeping their assault rifles.
Switzerland, sat it ain't so😑
Very sad, only reason Germany avoided them in WW2 was because of their terrain and everyone had firearms.
'After militants killed scores of people in Paris in 2015' Ahh yes... 'militants' I bet they were Swiss, huh?
i thought theyd vote for more enhanced swiss army knives
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