Nazi Registration

[Frosty]

Interesting read regarding gun registration by the Nazi's and why we must stand our ground regarding this issue amongst the many anti-gun issues the libs/progressive/marxist/socialists want. History does repeat itself.

http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/registration_article/registration.html

[tombogan03884]

Nazi Registration ?
Is that anything like a "Short arm inspection" ?

[Combat Diver]

Thanks for the history lesson.  Time for another email with attached letter to my reps.


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[oldkat69]

Halbrook is a great scholar and thoughtful advocate for freedom.  

I have corresponded with him on occasion about Switzerland and its take on freedom and being armed.

Remember it was NOT the National Socialists  that began firearm registration in Germany.  

That was handled by the liberal Wiemar Republicans in 1925.

You know just to make sure guns didn't fall in to the wrong hands like gypsies and the criminal element.

[tombogan03884]

Halbrook is a great scholar and thoughtful advocate for freedom.  

I have corresponded with him on occasion about Switzerland and its take on freedom and being armed.

Remember it was NOT the National Socialists  that began firearm registration in Germany.  

That was handled by the liberal Wiemar Republicans in 1925.

You know just to make sure guns didn't fall in to the wrong hands like gypsies and the criminal element.

While what you say is true it is not complete .
At the time the Republic introduced "gun control" they were trying to get control of a 3 way civil war that was preventing recovery from the war.
On one side were the Reds. Sparticist's, socialists, communists, and various other groups who's philosophy was more or less Marxist and were getting support from revolutionary Russia and the ComIntern headquartered in Moscow's Metropole hotel.
On the other side were returned veterans who had been formed into militias called "Frei Korps" these were essentially independent mercenary companies covertly paid and supplied by the government to suppress the leftists but not under govt control .
Forming the 3rd faction were the emasculated remains of the official German Army and police forces.
By 1925 things were finally beginning to settle down, the Sparticist revolt had been crushed, Hitlers Pustch had been defeated, and the ringleaders imprisoned, while the Army had begun disbanding the Free companies.
Under these circumstances it is reasonable to assume good faith and good intentions when the Govt moved to toughen gun laws in order to consolidate the very shaky peace that was so important if the Republic were to have any future at all.
That good faith, that sound reasoning, and those noble intentions are exactly why the Wiemar Republic and the resultant Nazi confiscations must stand as such a stark warning to all of us today .
Those politicians who started the ball rolling had only the best interests of Germany at heart, and they had little or no precedent to warn them of the possible results.
That is not true today when venal self important elitists have that example before them and only their own agenda at heart.
That was not the only lesson the world would learn from that era.
With in 15 years it would have been demonstrated that Gun control doesn't make the population safer, prohibiting products that are in high demand does not work and "World Organizations aimed at peace are a waste of time.
90 years later with Gun control, the "war on drugs, and the UN it's pretty obvious none of the lessons took.

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[oldkat69]

  This is why I hang around with you guys.  I always learn something!

Thanks!