A book has just been published titled "Gun Control in the Third Reich", written by Stephen Halbrook.
I am going to provide a part of a book report written by Dave Kopel. It is as follows... A 1928 law required a licence for the acquisition of a firearm, or for the purchase of ammunition. All licences were registered, so the ammunition requirement had the effect of providing the government with a list of people who already owned guns. In 1931, the government further tightened the laws against carrying any arm (even a knife or truncheon) in public, and authorized the German states to require retroactive registration of all firearms.
.......The Weimar government itself had worried about the dangers of registration lists falling in the hands of extremists. On Jan 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was lawfully appointed chancellor of Germany. When the Government itself fell into the hands of extremists, so did the registration lists. The lists were quite useful for the Nazi confiscations.
...Over the next five years , the Nazis worked methodically to force all elements of society into line.. For example, independent gun or shooting sports clubs were outlawed. ..., clubs were registered with the state , ruled by a Nazi political officer. Many clubs disbanded instead.
The 1938 law...further ensuring that only the Nazis and their politically reliable supporters could have arms.
... In October 1938, the Nazis used the arms registration lists to complete the disarmament of the Jews.
....As for the rest of the German population, resistance might have been possible in 1933-34, but now it was too late. The nation that had once been amongst the most civilized and tolerant in the world was now disarmed and supine....
Please focus on the phrase "disarmed and supine". Supine pronounced syoo-pyn means 'failing to act as a result of laziness or lack of courage'.
The book is available at
www.independent.org
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