There has been a marked increase in applications for gun licences in Switzerland, a development police attribute to growing insecurity. The SonntagsBlick newspaper reported new statistics showing the number of applications increased by 17 percent last year over the previous year. The statistics from all 26 cantons showed that there were 29,146 applications for gun ownership made in 2015. All cantons with the exception of Jura in the northwest reported an increase. In... (GunPolicy.org)