"Warning!

This is not a gun free zone,” yells in large letters from the sign outside by the entrance.

Revolvers, hunting rifles and carbide lamps lie in the shop window, surrounded by American flags.

But this is not a gun shop, but a burger restaurant: The "Shooters Grill" is located in the small town of Rifle in the US state of Colorado.

Rifle, like gun.

That's the real name of the city.

At “Shooters”, as the locals call the place, shooting irons are as important as the waffle irons in the kitchen.

A cardboard cutout of the President greets guests at the front, and T-shirts can be purchased that advertise "God, Guns, and Trump."

The friendly waitress is holding a notepad and has a .40 caliber Beretta on her belt. “Some customers give us ammunition as tips,” the young woman says, winking at me.

“Nobody would dare to attack here”

In the "Shooters" the entire staff is armed, the colt on the hip is part of the regular program here.

The dishes are called "Smoking Gun" steaks, "M16 burritos" and "Swiss & Wesson" sandwiches (with Swiss cheese), the appetizers are called "Target Practice".

That goes down well with the guests.

"We feel very comfortable here," says Ken Kriz, a Vietnam War veteran who dines here regularly.

His wife Karma agrees, "It's the safest place in town.

Nobody would dare to attack here.”

The waitresses, the cardboard Trump, the menu: all of this sounds like a funny advertising gimmick, like photo motifs that do well on Facebook and Instagram and attract new customers.

That's the page.

But there is a political dimension behind the restaurant concept.

The "Shooters" implements all the demands that the powerful gun lobby demands for the entire country on a small scale: no restrictions, no bans, no guilty conscience.

Around 300 million guns are in circulation in the United States, statistically there is one rifle or pistol for every inhabitant.

Big cities like Chicago and Baltimore, where hundreds die in shootings every year, are increasingly banning guns in restaurants, bars and shopping malls.

The supermarket chain Walmart followed suit last year, and the powerful lobby group “National Rifle Association” (NRA) was furious.

Instead of denouncing criminals, the company criminalizes innocent citizens.

Soon, the NRA predicted, people would be shopping elsewhere -- at stores that "support America's fundamental freedoms."

Especially in rural areas, the second amendment of the American constitution, which guarantees all citizens the right to own a gun,

"We grow up with this mentality, it's normal for us," said Barbara Clifton, the mayor of Rifle.

She doesn't think her town of 10,000 is particularly conservative: the garbage is separated, marijuana is legal, the roofs of the municipal buildings are paved with solar panels.

Only when it comes to weapons do the locals not understand fun: "We even have two city councilors who come to our meetings armed."

This mentality is difficult for outsiders to understand, as Colorado in particular has recently suffered various victims from armed assassins: around 1999, the killing spree in Columbine High School with 15 dead caused a sensation, in 2012 the cinema massacre in Aurora, in which twelve People died.

"Fortunately, we don't have such incidents here," says Mayor Clifton.

There isn't an area in Rifle that she wouldn't walk through alone at night.

And if something does happen?

"Then I'll know how to fight back." She holds a gun license that allows her to carry a pistol concealed (you don't need a license to carry it openly in Colorado).