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'''ProTell''' (formally: "The Society for Liberal Weapons Rights"<ref name="HomePage"/>) is a Swiss  [[Right to keep and bear arms|gun-rights]] [[advocacy group]] based in [[Bern]], [[Switzerland]].

The [[voluntary association|association]] was founded in 1978 with the purpose of defending the right of law-abiding citizens to carry arms, and is opposed to any restrictions in this regard.<ref name="HomePage">{{cite web | title=Startseite - ProTell | url=http://www.protell.ch/de/ | publisher=ProTell.ch | accessdate=March 19, 2016}}</ref>  Its name refers to the famous legend of [[Wilhelm Tell]], shooting the apple off his son's head with a single arrow.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Nelson | first1=Soraya Sarhaddi | title=What's Worked, And What Hasn't, In Gun-Loving Switzerland | url=https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174758723/facing-switzerland-gun-culture | date=March 19, 2013 | publisher=[[NPR]] | accessdate=March 19, 2016}}</ref> ProTell reports some 8500 members as of 2016.<ref>[http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/eklat-bei-waffenlobby-pro-tell/story/28781345 tagesanzeiger.ch] 12 September 2016</ref> This corresponds to some 6.4% of the number of registered shooters in the ''[[Schweizer Schiesssportverband]]''.

ProTell was one of the principal opponents to the [[federal popular initiative]] "[[Swiss gun control referendum, 2011|For the protection against gun violence]]", brought to referendum on February 13, 2011. The initiative was broadly rejected by the voters.<ref>{{cite web | title=Swiss Overwhelmingly Reject Plan to Tighten Gun Control in Referendum | url=http://www.france24.com/en/20110213-swiss-vote-army-arms-guns-home-high-suicide-rate-referendum-law | date=February 13, 2011 | publisher=France24.com | accessdate=March 19, 2016}}</ref>