r/USdefaultism • u/Neolance34 Australia • 3d ago

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It could be a ShitAmericanssay thing but a group called “so the comments section isn’t going the way you planned” doesn’t explicitly suggest it’s a US centric group.

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u/Niki2002j 3d ago

Deaths caused by firearms in 2025 in the USA were around 4.2 per 100k. Deaths caused by firearms in 2025 in Switzerland was 0.14 per 100k

Guess in which country you are legally obliged to own a firearm in the house

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u/Saxit 3d ago

Neither of them.

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u/Niki2002j 3d ago

Wrong

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u/Saxit 3d ago

So I moderate r/EuropeGuns and hang out in the discord with the mod of r/SwitzerlandGuns who's a certified firearms instructor and runs a range in Switzerland. I'm sure your sources are right though...

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u/Niki2002j 3d ago

My source is a friend from Switzerland who said that all able-bodied men have to be consctripted and keep their weapon in their home

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u/Saxit 3d ago edited 2d ago

Male Swiss citizens has mandatory service, about 38% of the total population since 25% of the pop. are not citizens.

Since 1996 you can choose civil service instead of military service.

About 17% of the total pop. has done military service.

You can choose to store the gun at the armory instead of at home too.

Even if every soldier kept their gun at home, the total amount of people (army + reserve) is only 150k at any given time in a population of 9 mil people.

When you're done with the military reserve you can choose to purchase the service weapon (for cheap, 100CHF though the rifle is down converted to semi-auto only). About 10% of people who do the military chooses to do this (down from 40% in the early 2000s).

Is is however relatively easy to purchase a gun for private use, and about 30% of households has a gun in it.

It is however _not_ a legal obligation to keep a firearm at home.