At Waffen Sammlerborse 2025 earlier this year, which is a Swiss Gun Show. There’s a lot of interest in firearms in Switzerland and it also has a lot of wealthy firearm collectors. The line to get into the show was 30 min long. Swiss citizens have access to a much wider range of firearms than US citizens (including full-autos with the right license). There are no import rules around firearm features or banned country lists, etc…, so there was some pretty cool stuff here and there.
Here are two Springfield M1 Garands. I’ve seen a lot of M1 Carbines at Swiss gun shops and there were a bunch at the show but not as many M1 Garands–these may have been the only ones at the show.
There’s definitely a lot of interest in military history in Switzerland. There was actually a group of WWII reenactors in 82nd Airborne attire on the top floor in full US WWII combat uniforms with a whole tent and sandbag / mortar position setup.
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