A easier to be a married couple, the cozy Senior, the group of young people: All that run here, the road along the edge of, carrying assault rifles over the shoulders – with a matter of course, as it would be mats yoga. And from the not too distant future it will pop. The weekend came to Protect and occasionally protective interior from around the Region, according to Mollis in the Canton of Glarus. On her back is “Schützenverein Weesen”, “military protect RUTI” or “SV:”. With the Historic journey to shoot Mollis, they commemorate the battle of Näfels and their victims. According to the travel letter, the official representation of the battle, have defeated, in 1388, about 450 Glarus, reinforced by a couple of Schwyz and URI, a Habsburg Supremacy. How great she was, about different Numbers circulate. Once it is 6500 man large, in the letter it grows to “five coal mines tusend men zuo ross and zuo fuoss”.
“to Protect, watch out! Strike! Fire!” It takes a few seconds after this announcement from the speaker, until the first shot is fired. Then it POPs like a 1.-August-fireworks, gunshots echo between the steep rock walls. Shell casings tinkling to the ground, the smell of Gunpowder is spreading. A dozen men in the shooting booth at the belly, rifles at the ready. Shooter number seven lies motionless on the ground, only the movements of the Ribs to show that he’s still breathing. Also, the Ribs do not move. The index finger bends, a shot, a jolt goes through the man. It is a sober environment for the commemoration of a great fact as that of 1388. The shooters stand is a simple wood construction, only with the most Necessary equipped. Inside it is gloomy, the North wind drives the sniper by the congregation.
“our money,”
The protect Association, white fir is accumulated after the fire, in front of the house to protect. You can wear the coach jackets of your Association, over the heart embroidered your name: Ruedi, Franz, Sepp, and Heidi, Leo. The opinions are made. You will be on the 19th. May all the EU weapons Directive. Also, if the Protect to agree that you don’t change all that much. “I don’t see the point. Who wants a weapon, it still gets that,” says Sepp. And Leo: “it’s more bureaucracy. Anywhere you should register today.” “For me, it goes against the grain, the EU is constantly threatened.” “It’s going to be a slow EU accession. We give the little Finger take the whole Hand.” “In the past, people believed what the politicians said in the “Arena”. But today, it is suspicious.” Rejected asylum-seekers would also creates.
question in the round: To risk, to Switzerland because of these restrictions on the weapons care, all the benefits that brings to her the Schengen agreement? Access to the international system of Investigation, freedom of travel, the discharge in the Asylum? “Do not throw out us. The have our money,” says a gunner.
“But Valerio. This has to do with our Tradition.”
Fredy Reifler,
Avid shooter and participants
of the shooting
contactor does not understand and also Protect, which is why the EU, of all things, your weapon, evil weapon classified. You know how to deal with her. At the control post in front of the shooting stand you show your unsolicited weapon, with all the shutter is open, the magazine removed. So, as the big letters on the posters. For that, you get a “Guet Schuss”. After Shooting the same procedure. As Walter Pfiffner from the Saint-Gallic in front of almost 50 years, to young course up to protect the eighth, took his father aside and said: “just listen for once, young Burscht. This weapon here, this is not a toy.” These words of Pfiffner and is still in the ear when he takes his assault rifle to Hand. “We Protect all know what can happen with a gun. It is not the gun, but behind, the power of the bullshit.”
It seems as begun on July 19. May slips a struggle against foreign domination – even if only with voting and not on the field of battle as 1388. The Glarner had not seceded at the time, with a own law of the Land only of the Habsburgs, they had also destroyed the castle Windegg. The left doesn’t like. “At the nünten day in the but, Ellen,” they fell to the Canton of Glarus, as it is in the travel letter, noted. The huge army of the Habsburgs step in the direction of Näfels. The small group of 450 Glarnern, that should secure the Letzi, sought the Wide. The army broke through the fortification, and pulled plundering in the valley.
there Are Protect in Mollis a, don’t want to go with the EU on confrontation? Before the shooting it means that you will not find one. One, but but. Fredy Reifler (76), to its active time motorcycle riders. He has read the 17 pages of the Federal Council’s submission carefully, as he says, and came to the conclusion: “nothing has changed For us to Protect.” And: Because of the minimal restrictions for the rest of the gun owners, it is not worthwhile to risk the many benefits. His companion is indignant: “We can but it is not our Tradition!” “But Valerio,” says Reifler. “This has to do with our Tradition.” Reifler shakes his head. Many began talking only, which would be on the posters. “But people should take the time and the documents read. And to think.”
Karl Mächler is also a proponent of the revised firearms act , sits on the Board of the Glarus protect the Association and has visited in the last few weeks, four of the cantonal assemblies of of Protect. He was always a small minority. Maybe it was even greater, says Mächler – not all of them wanted to be exposed. He observed that there, as in the shooting is argued, it is very emotional. Some railed against the “Disarming the dictate of the EU”, while others would swear to the end of the shooting being up. Mächler has been for 40 years an active shooter, and the EU should threaten in fact, even the Shooting, was he clear on the page of the current opponent. For the BDP-politician and member of the cantonal Parliament is crucial, what are the consequences of a possible exclusion from the Schengen-could have agreements for the economy and for security.
Slain and drowned
to defeat the Glarnern 1388 nevertheless, the proud army, in a Different world. You would be surprised the Habsburgs, as they were going to steal cattle, it was said. Or would you let the rock blocks in the groups Tab thunder. The Chaos had you used and the Habsburgs against Weesen in the swamps driven, slain, or in the Walensee drowned. The writer of the letter says: “As vil wüssen of the same to the zal sy you actually like nit.”
Martin Siegrist, Glarus, won the historical Shoot-out with the Maximum of 50 points. For that he got as a Federal administration, a storm rifle 90 and a piece of paper. To actually get an assault rifle, he must apply to the police for a criminal records extract. So that he can redeem in the municipality of a weapons acquisition permit. Against this note he receives in the Armoury of the rifle. This procedure applies to today.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 14.04.2019, 22:45 Uhr
