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讓軍人帶槍回家 瑞士十年來遺失四千多支
中央社╱中央社 2008-03-10 06:21
（中央社記者周盈成日內瓦九日專電）瑞士長久以來讓軍人把槍帶回家保管，國防部指出，十年來因為這樣而遺失或遭竊的槍超過四千三百支，以突擊步槍最多，手槍居次。
「週日晨報」報導指出，國防部發言人安德瑞奇證實這項數字，並表示，這還不包括約兩百六十支失而復得，以及一百多支在服役期間失蹤的。
瑞士身體健全的成年男子都需應召入伍，受完三個月訓練後，每年再回營服役最多達四週，直到服滿兩百六十天或屆滿三十四歲。這期間，當他們離營返家時必須把槍帶回家保管。
這項傳統多年來備受爭議，尤其每當發生軍槍造成駭人的槍殺事件時。反對這項制度的團體估計，全國每年有三百人死於軍用槍支；而贊成者則認為這制度代表瑞士全民皆兵的光榮傳統，若改變制度是對軍人的不信任。
國會在去年修法折衷，除了少數快速反應部隊之外，其他軍人帶空槍回家但不帶彈藥。社會民主黨和反槍團體主張更嚴格的槍械管制，包括軍槍應留置軍營，建立全國槍枝登記制度，禁止私人購買與擁有某些火力強大武器等。他們已發起一項人民創制案，目前尚未交付公民投票。
新聞網站「瑞士資訊」引用一些團體的估計，民間目前有一百五十萬支軍槍。
日內瓦邦在今年初開始一項先驅計畫，設立一座軍火庫，供該邦軍人免費寄放槍支。週日晨報報導，目前僅放進了大約六十支槍，但主管官員表示，「讓邦民改變習慣還需要多些時間。」
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Thousands of army guns are lost
March 9, 2008 - 4:23 PM
More than 4,300 army guns have been lost or stolen over the past decade, the Swiss defence ministry has confirmed.
The statistics come as calls mount for a ban on military weapons being stored at home by members of Switzerland's 120,000-member conscript army.
Defence ministry spokesman Felix Endrich has confirmed a report that appeared in Sunday's Le Matin Dimanche newspaper that the guns had been stolen or lost outside military service. In addition, around 260 have been reported stolen and then recovered.
Assault rifles disappeared the most frequently, followed by pistols, according to the defence ministry.
Weapons are also lost or stolen during service, but this is much more rare, Endrich said. Since 2005 this has been around ten per year, apart from in 2006.
In that year 82 rifles were stolen from an army depot in Marly in French-speaking Switzerland, bringing the 2006 total to 84 rifles plus 15 pistols.
Endrich told the Swiss news agency that the army did not keep statistics that made a distinction between lost or stolen weapons. Those that simply disappear are categorised as lost, he said.
Under Swiss law, all able-bodied men aged 20-30 are conscripted for about three months and are issued with a rifle. They are required to do up to four weeks of army service a year until they have served 260 days or are aged 34.
Throughout this time they keep the rifles – but no ammunition - at home. According to some estimates there could be as many as 1.5 million army weapons in circulation.
Gun debate
Questions have already been raised in the country over whether the practice should be continued.
Those against it point to the fact that army-issue weapons are said to be involved in the deaths of more than 300 people a year in the country.
Parliament last year banned the keeping of ammunition at home. But centre-left Social Democratic Party and pacifist organisations have gone further and launched a people's initiative to ban army guns and rifles at home.
They want these weapons to remain in the barracks and a national gun register set up, arguing that keeping guns at home no longer has a military purpose.
But opponents – including the strong gun lobby – argue that decommissioning weakens Swiss security and is a vote of no confidence in soldiers.
For Nuria Goritte, a Vaud cantonal parliamentarian, the disappearing weapons add to arguments that arms should be stored in arsenals.
"If it is not made obligatory to put arms in an arsenal, it could at least be made possible to store them there. Not everyone has the means to put arms in a safe place at home," she was quoted in Le Matin Dimanche as saying.
At the beginning of this year canton Geneva introduced a pioneering initiative allowing soldiers living there to store their army guns free of charge at the cantonal arsenal. The move is being closely watched by other cantons.
According to Le Matin Dimanche only around 60 weapons have been handed in so far. However, the Geneva authorities insist that the initiative simply needs time.
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