</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">If a person passed away while still on active military duty, would the authorities come to his home to collect the weapons...?
[/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">No because the family turns it in before the police has to come

. Unless of course there is no family to do it. In this case the authorities would come in any case.
Military guns are only issued to those who have regularly completed their military duty. Dying is not a regular way of completing military duty in Switzerland (only in ennemy armies

).