All the dictators agree - gun control works... Sounds great, wonderful propaganda hot off the press to use in the promotion of an idea - sadly in one aspect we take the low ground with simplistic platitudes...
The NSDAP and gun control.
Read the real and unbiased history and be shocked if you have never seen this material.
The limited sense is that gun laws for both ethnic Germans and non-German ethnic people were greatly released as compared to the Weimar (leftist/socialist) under NSDAP. Later gun laws were to be greatly increased for non-German ethnic people (Jews, Gypsies, and some specific Church members considered "dangerous"). This makes it almost impossible to make a simple clear answer the the question - the typical American wants a simple answer, and in politics and political history a simple answer is difficult to "boil down to".
Weimar Germany's laws were the basis for the Gun Control Act of 1968 and strangely even they had to remove some restrictions from an earlier transition period.
Both the NSDAP and the Soviets depended on loyal local bureaucracies to extend power, and in many cases this translated to extreme inconsistencies in practice.
The difference is that generally the "right" is gun friendly for it's "approved groups" and the "left" is very gun restrictive, clearly Obamonation is leftist - as gun owners this will bode ILL for us.
For a critique of the JPFO argument and identification of their work as "cultural" and how you have strange bedfellows in the "pro-gun" movement... Worth the read, an accurate look at the strange bedfellows pro and con...
Critique of gun control propaganda, pro and con - PDF
"The 1928 law put into effect a strict licensing scheme that covered all
aspects of firearms—from the manufacture to the sale, including repair and
even reloading ammunition.68 It explicitly revoked the 1919 Regulations on
Weapons Ownership,69 which had banned all firearms possession, and thereby
liberalized firearms regulation. As Halbrook himself notes, based on review of
contemporaneous newspaper reports and official commentary, “the 1928 law
was seen as deregulatory to a point but enforceable, in contrast to a far more
restrictive albeit unenforceable [1919] order.”70 Halbrook continues: “Within
a decade, Germany had gone from a brutal firearms seizure policy which, in
times of unrest, entailed selective yet immediate execution for mere possession
of a firearm, to a modern, comprehensive gun control law.”71
Second, with regard to gun possession, the 1938 Nazi gun laws
represented a further liberalization of gun control regulations. In fact, most of
the changes in the law reflected a loosening of the regulations, not a tightening.
The Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, is patterned on the Law on Firearms
and Ammunition of April 12, 1928. The two laws have the same structure,
similar section headings, and broadly similar language."
"The Minister of the Interior, Frick, passed
Regulations Against Jew’s Possession of Weapons on November 11, 1938,
which effectively deprived all Jews of the right to possess firearms or other
weapons. It was a regulation prohibiting Jews from having any dangerous
weapon—not just guns. Under the regulations, Jews “are prohibited from
acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as
truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and
ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.”95
Moreover, prior to that, the German police and Nazis used the 1938 firearms
law as an excuse to disarm Jews. In Breslau, for instance, the city police chief
decreed the seizure of all firearms from Jews on the ground that “the Jewish
population ‘cannot be regarded as trustworthy’”—the language from the 1928
and 1938 firearms laws.96
It seems fair to conclude, then, that the 1938 Nazi gun law represented
a slight relaxation of gun control. Though the Nazis were intent on killing
Jews and used the gun laws to that effect, they aspired to relaxation of gun
laws for the “ordinary” or “law-abiding” German citizen, for those who were
not, in their twisted minds, “enemies of the National Socialist state."
Just not a simple or clear answer, unless you want to boil it down to - if you don't like or trust someone, make sure they don't have weapons... but that is almost too simple to be useful in anything but the bumper sticker level conversation.
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