https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/19/make-finland-the-land-of-shooting-badassery-again/ Finland, vastly outnumbered by Soviet conscripts at the start of the second world war, inflicted brutal casualty ratios on the Communist invaders. 85 years later, the history of Finnish sharpshooters causing massive problems for a much bigger army appears to have taken hold from the article Finland plans to open more than 300 new shooting ranges to encourage more citizens to take up the hobby in the interest of national defence. It is hoped that shooting in the Nordic country—which last year became Nato's newest member and which shares a 830-mile (1,330km) border with Russia—could become as popular as football or ice hockey.
Not sure what happened, because they used to have over 2000 shooting ranges, and now it's down to 600. All Finns are shooters, since they have mandatory military service like Israel and Switzerland That "White Death" guy killed 259 Russies in 4 months using only iron sights plus another 270+ with a sub machine gun. Then he had his jaw blown off and was removed from the war. The licensing process is tough, so its hard for non-responsible people to acquire firearms.
I tip my hat here. I’ve said multiple times that as a country with very harsh adversaries we are playing the losing side. While Russia is teaching their kids in school how to throw hand grenades we are teaching our youth that a man can become a woman and to fear guns. Our current political field will cause democracy to become extinct because no one will fight for it. We are raising a bunch of sissies.
They do it the Swiss way. Privates have a gun to defend their country, not to defend themselves. And they have one, And the ammunition must not be in the same house where the gun is.
Finnish recruits do not keep a military rifle at home like the Swiss do, but you are correct about the Swiss having a gun, but no ammo.
