The shooting range where you fire over a busy road

This video has a correction: the subtitles should say "Schusswaffen [firearms]" not "Schutzwaffen [defensive weapons]". My transcriber and translator was German, but not Swiss German, so it's an understandable mistake! There's unfortunately no way to fix that in-video, but hopefully it still makes sense.

Living in southern Germany I've heard the expression: "Switzerland doesn't have an army, Switzerland is an army".

I like how Tom said "about 2 hours from Zurich" as if not every town in Switzerland is at most 2 hours from Zurich.

Forget shooting over a road, the electronic targets are AWESOME

I know you don't wanna get into the politics of firearm Ownership, but I have to say, I do like the respect you showed everyone involved. Well done.

Tom shooting is just as strange as him vaping, he's growing up so fast

As an American member of The Swiss Rifles of Washington DC, in 2000 I participated in the pent-annual Eidgenössisches Schützenfest in Biere, Switzerland. I remember standing in the lobby of my hotel in Lausanne and observing a number of Swiss men checking in at the front desk. Their full-automatic Sturmgewehr-90 assault rifles were bungee-corded to the outside of their luggage. This Federal Shooting Festival included a large and well-attended parade through Lausanne. Only in Switzerland!

I grew up in Switzerland, 1971-1984, and this puts a wide smile on my face :) (we were used to seeing soldiers , conscripts?, in public transport, with their heavy 7,5mm Sig, while riding to the boyscouts events etc.)

The motorists are in far more danger from the surrounding cars than the overhead bullets.

I appreciate the instructor making the effort to speak in High German despite clearly being a Swiss-German speaker 😂

I love to see you pointing a light at responsible gun ownership. A population can be armed and very safe, it all has to do with environment and training. The gun club I'm a member at here in the states opened in 1956, and they've never had a single serious firearm-related incident or accident, and yes, if you attempted to break a safety rule in malice or in ineptitude, you would quickly be shown either the asphalt or the right way to operate. Great video.

I've been at a gun range here in the US where a teenager who had come with two adults turned around (facing the seats) with a loaded gun in hand. The rangemaster walked over and told the adults they were being ejected, and the teen was banned for a year. They protested and he told them "You're responsible for him, he could have killed someone, and you weren't paying enough attention to even notice - you're lucky he's not dead." Mind you, the kid was still holding the gun. The adult scoffed and asked why (about the luck in the kid not getting killed) and the rangemaster noted four people in adjacent stalls with weapons in hand, who had shifted their stances to face the confrontation (though still pointing their guns downrange, something they could remedy in a blink). The rest of the range (25 stalls) had stopped shooting, and everyone was shifting around to get out of the potential lines of fire. That's the thing about a bunch of trained shooters, nobody had to organize it, nobody had to tell anyone else what to do, they just did it. When the two adults realized how much the situation had already escalated, they backed down and packed their things. The kid apologized, not to anyone in particular, but said he didn't mean to point it at anyone and he didn't mean anything by it. One of the guys who had been at the ready said, "We know - that's why you're still alive."

"About 2 hours from Zurich". That could be almost anywhere in Switzerland.

Big red arrow in thumbmail is appropriate for once. edit: I meant on YouTube in general, I assume Tom's arrows are always appropriate.

This was cool to hear. I took 2 semesters of German in high school, as well as having a German exchange student come live with us for 6 months, so I learned a decent bit of German. Let me tell you, it is an entirely different thing to hear someone speak Swiss German. Little things you notice that you're like "That was right, but why did it not SOUND right?" its very interesting.

I remember a shooting range I went to in Kent many years ago, it backed onto the Thames Estuary. I was firing either the LMG (Bren) or GPMG. Every time a large ship came up the Estuary we all had to stop shooting because you could theoretically shoot the passing ship, I think that most of them were container ships but I know there was a gas terminal somewhere not too far away so an automatic rifle hurling 7.62 at a floating gas cylinder probably isn't great for the local landscape.

"Breaking the safety rules surrounded by military trained firearm enthusiasts is, ah, not a great plan." I loved that sentence.

"Two hours from Zurich". Half of Switzerland is within two hours of Zurich. Just say, this place is about half an hour from Bern. ;)

Gosh, I love my country. I lived in London for many years and actually never wanted to move back to Switzerland. Since returning, I’ve had an uneasy friendship with Switzerland, always missing England. How strange is it, that it took an English man’s numerous videos to make myself fall in love with my native country again. Thank you Tom!

From the sky it looks dangerous, but the concrete barrier makes sense. Our gun range here in the states has a similar feature, but 10 feet above the ground to prevent stray rounds from going into neighboring homes' yards since our club is in the middle of a residential area. We were there before the houses, but we take great care to protect our neighbors.