In the past 10 years, guns were used in less than 120 homicides, government figures show ... University told Geneva’s daily newspaper, Le Temps. The Swiss Shooting Sports Association has ...

Barbara Weil, of the Swiss Medical Association, said it had been scientifically proven that if the guns were less freely available the number of suicides would drop. The studies had also shown ...

Official results from a national referendum on gun control showed that more than half of Switzerland's 26 cantons voted against an initiative which aimed to ban army rifles from households in an ...

But observers warn the changes, which will bring Switzerland in line with European Union guidelines and which were approved by the Senate in June, are unlikely to prevent future gun attacks.

(Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters) This one-time artillery fort was meant to defend Switzerland against a Nazi invasion and was built in 1942. A 10.5-cm gun stands over the town of Faulensee. The fort ...