In reference to Chank for jwar:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland
Sonaboy wrote:Jwar wrote: I also wouldn't be surprised if there was some other agenda behind it.
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Haha, yeah, of course it's another agenda. Dude doesn't literally want to arm everybody. He's gotta know there is a terrorist around every corner!*
It reeks of gun lobby/corporations looking for publicity and possibly a payout.
The AR15 one especially. There is no known penalty at the time (last I checked), but they are building a tax write off into the purchase. So if you own your family's cap and ball shotgun, no right off...but you already own a gun, so it isn't so bad just to store one for the tax benefit.
They're just lining the dude's pocket and trying to solidify a red vote with a, "See we tried" kinda thing. If they were really wanting to make a militia, a better way to do it would be with free/paid job training in a national-guard-style state-based guard situation, but then they might be getting in some trouble with the Fed. At least people may get some training out of it.
Just publicity with money and potential benefits post public position.
Also, you could say the timing post med marijuana is a Nixon/Regan-like setup to keep the socio-economic structure as is or to make it even more stratified...but I doubt that much thought went into it. Just another BS, money switchin' hands publicity thing.
*Sarcasm