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Any European(or Australian, or Asian, etc) gun owners here? What's your experience of dealing with regulatory authorities- is it hostility, or general bureaucratic culture, or what?
To be clear, I am not asking for non-gun owning Europeans to post a link to wikipedia and explain how their system is superior, which is usually what clogs up such threads. I can read the wikipedia article on gun politics in the EU.
In general, in urban Russia it puts you on the list. Not in the sense of the FSB watching you, but local cops have a list of "people of interest" that they keep, with everyone else a statistic. People like ex-cons, dysfunctional families, known criminals with no case to pin on them, activists of both Karen and political kind, and gun owners. Every time there's something, you can expect them to pay you a visit to check your gun safe.
I assume ‘something’ means ‘any front page news story about your city/neighborhood/whatever’?
Do you know what those inspections are typically like? Is it a ‘ok, show me your safe, let me count the guns, I'm off for donuts’ or is it decidedly more unpleasant? Is a bribe normally involved?
Not just any front-page news story. Maybe someone's been shot at, or they got a new internal regulation, or some important person is planning to visit or pass through the area.
More of the former than the latter. "Show me your safe, let me count your guns, have they been fired recently, are you planning to take them out any time soon".
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