About the responses to my post, it is hard to explain the level of weirdness of it. For cultural shock, I mean the difference between the image we have of a weapon. Over here only criminals and police officers brand guns (even though one can obtain one if proves a need for it), and if someone claimed he wanted to get this or that gun, one would get stares and/or be avoided at a social situation. I remember this girl from Ohio who spent a couple of weeks working with us here, and she owned a freaking machine gun and two shotguns. I asked her if she ever had to shoot anyone, she said no. Then I asked why did she need two shotguns, if it was in case that she ran out of ammo in one of the shotguns, she could grab another and keep shooting at the giant ant or zombie army invading her home...

Anyone from Europe sharing this feelings of shock with this thread?