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Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by iso1210 on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:06AM (#26670745)
In which countries?
Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by donw on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:42PM (#26677409)
England and Switzerland come to the top of my mind, I’ll need to dig for a comprehensive list.
Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by thrower123 on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:32AM (#26670895)
Nearly all of them, at least up through the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

I believe it became less popular with the popular revolutions of 1848 and the advent of universal conscription.

Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by ceejayoz on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:37AM (#26671302)
I'm not a historian, but this doesn't match my understanding; that true weapons like swords and crossbows tended to be restricted, and peasants used scythes, clubs, etc. instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/268dmc/how_w...

Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by iso1210 on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:39AM (#26671770)
Arround 1400, the King proclaimed that "every Englishman or Irishman dwelling in England must have a bow of his own height", at one point Tennis was banned to give more time to bow practice. By 1500s every man had to buy his 7 year old son a bow and teach him how to use it, and a bow+arrows must be kept in everyones house.

Crossbows on the other hand were practically banned, but this was more because a highly skilled longbowman was more deadly

Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas by ceejayoz on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:13AM (#26672065)
That's fairly unique to England, though, whose military power relied on longbows in a way not matched by rivals.