thebok@dreamon.com (The Bok) wrote:

> If I remember correctly, there is an atricle right here on this
> newsgroups which contains the German Gun laws. Nowhere is there
> evidence that the German government "banned guns", actually just the
> opposite. They relaxed regulations put into place by the Liberal
> Weimar Government in 1928.

IAN: Here's a Nazi gun law that was a key feature of the holocaust:


        REGULATIONS AGAINST JEW'S POSSESSION OF WEAPONS

        11, November 1938

        With a basis in code 31 of the Weapons Law of 18 March 
        1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt 1, p. 265), Article III of the Law 
        on the Reunification of Austria with Germany of 13 March 
        1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt 1, p. 237), and code 9 of the Fuhrer 
        and Chancellor's decree on the administration of the Sudeten-
        German districts of 1 October 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt 1, p. 
        1331) are the following ordered:

        Code 1

        Jews (code 5 of the First Regulations of the German Citi-
        zenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt 1, p. 
        1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carry-
        ing firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons of stabb-
        ing weapons. Those no possessing weapons and ammunition are 
        at once to turn them over to the local police authority. 

        Code 2

        Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew's possession will 
        be forfeited to the government without compensation.

        Code 3

        The Minister of the Interior may make exceptions to the 
        Prohibition in code 1 for Jews who are foreign nationals. 
        He can entrust other authorities with this power.

        Code 4

        Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions 
        of code 1 will be punished wit imprisonment and a fine. 
        In especially severe cases of deliberate violations, the 
        punishment is imprisonment in a penitentiary for up to 
        five years.

        Code 5 

        For the implementation of the regulation, the Minister 
        of the Interior waives the necessary and administrative 
        provisions.

        Code 6

        The regulation is valid in the state of Austria and in
        the Sudeten-German districts.

        Berlin, 11 November 1938

        Minister of the Interior

        Frick


Reprinted in, "LEATHAL LAWS: Gun Control is the Key to Genocide."
By Jay Simkin, Aaron Zelman and Alan M. Rice, 
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

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