keso wrote:Tea Party Propaganda.
Can we spot the misrepresentation?
I've spotted one here immediately.
George III, Adolf Hitler, and Barack Hussein Obama never spoke against gun ownership, and none of them carried out mass disarmament of regular citizens. People often express surprise, since Americans have created a whole mythology about Hitler gun-confiscations, which actually did not happen.
'Gun Control in National Socialist Germany, 1928-1945', Dr. William L. Pierce, 1994 (emphasis added) wrote:A common belief among defenders of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is that the National Socialist government of Germany under Adolf Hitler did not permit the private ownership of firearms. Totalitarian governments, they have been taught in their high school civics classes, do not trust their citizens and do not dare permit them to keep firearms. Thus, one often hears the statement, "You know, the first thing the Nazis did when they came to power was outlaw firearms," or, "The first thing Hitler did in Germany was round up all the guns."
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It is not just that the National Socialist firearms legislation was the opposite of what it has been claimed to have been by persons who want to tar modern gun-grabbers with the "Nazi" brush: the whole spirit of Hitler's government was starkly different from its portrayal by America's mass media.
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Gun registration and licensing (for long guns as well as for handguns) were legislated by a [liberal] government in Germany in 1928, five years before the National Socialists gained power. Hitler became Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Five years later his government got around to rewriting the gun law enacted a decade earlier by his predecessors, substantially ameliorating it in the process (for example, long guns were exempted from the requirement for a purchase permit; the legal age for gun ownership was lowered from 20 to 18 years; the period of validity of a permit to carry weapons was extended from one to three years; and provisions restricting the amount of ammunition or the number of firearms an individual could own were dropped). Hitler's government may be criticized for leaving certain restrictions and licensing requirements in the law, but the National Socialists had no intention of preventing law-abiding Germans from keeping or bearing arms. Again, the firearms law enacted by Hitler's government enhanced the rights of Germans to keep and bear arms; no new restrictions were added, and many pre-existing restrictions were relaxed or eliminated.
At the end of the Second World War, American GIs in the occupying force were astounded to discover how many German civilians owned private firearms. Tens of thousands of pistols looted from German homes by GIs were brought back to the United States after the war. In 1945 General Eisenhower ordered all privately owned firearms in the American occupation zone of Germany confiscated, and Germans were required to hand in their shotguns and rifles as well as any handguns which had not already been stolen. In the Soviet occupation zone German civilians were summarily shot if they were found in possession of even a single cartridge.
Interesting, looks like
the Allies were the gungrabbers. Of course, this is not surprising to anyone who actually was on Axis' side, but those who were on the Allied side and had Allied parents, they've been completely washed in propaganda and are unaware of this.
So, what was the framework used by Nazi Europe in summary? This:
ibid wrote:- Handguns may be purchased only on submission of a Weapons Acquisition Permit (Woffenerwerbschein), which must be used within one year from the date of issue. Muzzle-loading handguns are exempted from the permit requirement.
- Holders of a permit to carry weapons (Waffenschein) or of a hunting license do not need a Weapons Acquisition Permit in order to acquire a handgun.
- A hunting license authorizes its bearer to carry hunting weapons and handguns.
- Firearms and ammunition, as well as swords and knives, may not be sold to minors under the age of 18 years.
- Whoever carries a firearm outside of his dwelling, his place of employment, his place of business, or his fenced property must have on his person a Weapons Permit (Waffenschein). A permit is not required, however, for carrying a firearm for use at a police-approved shooting range.
- A permit to acquire a handgun or to learn firearms may only be issued to persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a permit. In particular, a permit may not be issued to:
- 1. persons under the age of 18 years;
- 2. legally incompetent or mentally retarded persons;
- 3. Gypsies or vagabonds;
- 4. persons under mandatory police supervision [i.e., on parole] or otherwise temporarily without civil rights;
- 5. persons convicted of treason or high treason or known to be engaged in activities hostile to the state;
- 6. persons who for assault, trespass, a breach of the peace, resistance to authority, a criminal offence or misdemeanor, or a hunting or fishing violation were legally sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than two weeks, if three years have not passed since the term of imprisonment.
- The manufacture, sale, carrying, possession, and import of the following are prohibited:
- 1. "trick" firearms, designed so as to conceal their function (e.g., cane guns and belt-buckle pistols);
- 2. any firearm equipped with a silencer and any rifle equipped with a spotlight;
- 3. cartridges with .22 calibre, hollow-point bullets.
That was all it was.