Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "WF Bern C42 & E22: Stgw90 Trials Rifles to Compete With SIG" video.

Of course there wouldn't have been as many lost charging handles if not for the rather silly rule about removing the bolt.
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@Kampfhamster81 They are already kept under lock and key in stout gun safes. If just removing the bolt makes the gun useless, why bother going through all that? Where's the bolt stored? In another safe? If a thief can get in one, he can get in the other. It's silly.
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@franzschmid9079 Understood, but if someone's in the house and can find the rifle he can probably ransack the place and find the bolt. It just seems like a false sense of security.
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@rickansell661 Having the guns kept in armories if there was really some major problem with Swiss soldiers committing suicide with them makes a lot more sense than having bits scattered around the house. However, this study (https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2018.14646/) seems to find differently, and many more suicides were associated with a military weapon after the soldier was no longer in the reserves than while he was. I just think we tend to come up with knee jerk solutions that really don't solve the apparent problem.
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@Kampfhamster81 I'm not Swiss so I only know what I read. My understanding was the rifle had to be kept somewhere in the house under lock and key. Maybe that's some kind of closet rather than a safe. The question remains - where is the bolt kept? If the rifle isn't secured against theft, how is the bolt any more secure?
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@franzschmid9079 It seems long past the day that 500,000 Swiss soldiers streaming out of their houses with a rifle and 50 rounds of ammo are really going to be fighting off invaders anyway. Keep them at an armory or some other base where soldiers will have to go to pick up other equipment anyway. It seems like a Swiss tradition that just won't die.
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