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Porcupine wrote:In Switzerland I carried my 552 SP over my shoulder unslipped on the train. Nobody bats an eye except one fellow who started speaking to me to compliment me on my weapon and laughed when I struggled to reply in broken German, realizing I was English. Had to be unloaded but I had a mag holder on the rails so it was dead quick to get running.

How true this is, I don't know. But I've heard that as everyone in Switzerland has a SIG assault rifle, there's actually special lockers on the train for them, and if you fancy going to the pub after militia training or something, you write your name and address on a ticket, sick it on your rifle, place the rifle into the locker and when the train reaches "home" the rifle will be posted back to the address on the ticket.

See, that just wouldn't happen here. To many chavs and thugs would try to break into it. Not that a chav would know how to use an assault rifle "where's the "X" button"