On 1/22/2013 5:43 PM, Chemo wrote:
> Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
> of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves
> were rounded up and exterminated.


Gun control in German was instituted after WW1. In 1938, the laws were
actually relaxed to make it easier for German citizens to own guns.
Jews were not prohibited from owning weapons but they were prohibited
from manufacturing or selling them.

Of the 13 million who were killed, 6 million were Jews, the rest were
Romanians, Poles, Slavs and Russian POW's..... none of which were
affected by German gun laws.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible things in history, but to
link it to the issue of gun control is a bit of a reach.

For more information, you could read:

Gun registration and licensing (for long guns as well as for handguns)
were legislated by an anti-National Socialist 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 amel ior a ting 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.
http://www.natvan.com/national-vangu...gunhitler.html


George L