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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 81

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GUN CONTROL'S NAZI CONNECTION!

 

Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was 

lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation. We must 

call for a full investigation, and the repeal of GCA '68 -- NOW!!

 

By Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)

 

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Are you tired of being told that gun control is a chronic pain 

that you have to accept because there's no cure? Do you -- a law- 

abiding person -- want to be free: to own whichever firearms you 

want to own, regardless of where in America you live; from 

waiting periods, gun bans, magazine capacity restrictions, etc.; 

to spend your time on the range or in the field, rather than 

fighting gun control?

 

Are you tired of giving hard-earned bucks to efforts that have at 

best only slowed the gun-grabbers' push toward firearms 

registration and confiscation? If you have had enough of death by 

a thousand cuts, you are ready to take action to wipe out gun 

control -- now.

 

Members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) 

consider gun control to be an aggressive cancer. JPFO has a cure, 

a way to destroy gun control. JPFO has hard evidence that shows 

that the Nazi Weapons Law (March 18, 1938) is the *source* of the 

U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA '68). Adolph Hitler signed the 

Nazi Weapons Law. The Gestapo (Nazi National Secret Police) 

enforced it. In *Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny* we present the 

official German text of the Nazi Weapons Law and a side-by-side 

translation into English. Even more deadly: a side-by-side, 

section-by-section comparison of the GCA '68 with the Nazi 

Weapons Law. If you have this in your hands, no one can tell you 

that you're imagining things.

 

The clincher: JPFO knows *who* implanted into American law 

cancerous ideas from the Nazi Weapons Law.

 

The likely culprit is a former senator, now deceased. We have 

documentary proof -- see below -- that he had the original text 

of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession 4 months before the 

bill that became GCA '68 was signed into law.

 

This former senator was a senior member of the U.S. team that 

helped to prosecute Nazi war criminals at Nurnberg, Germany, in 

1945-46. That is probably where he found out about the Nazi 

Weapons Law. He may have gotten a copy of it then, or at a later 

date. We cannot imagine why any U.S. lawmaker would own original 

texts of Nazi laws. To find out his name, read on.

 

With this hard evidence in your hands and in your head, you can 

destroy cancerous gun control. You can challenge anyone who backs 

gun control. You can show them the Nazi ideas, line by line.

 

The parallels between the Nazi law and GCA '68 will leap at you 

from the page. For example, law-abiding firearm owners in 

Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey must carry identification 

cards based on formats from the Nazi Weapons Law. Nazi-based laws 

have no place in America. Thousands of Americans died or were 

wounded in the war to wipe out the Nazis. They did not suffer and 

die so that Hitler's ideas could live on in America and kill more 

Americans. Gun control kills law-abiding Americans. Remember 

Killeen, Texas! The 23 who died in Luby's Cafeteria there died 

because they obeyed Nazi-inspired gun control laws. The law 

forced them, unarmed, to face an armed madman.

 

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    According to JPFO, evidence strongly suggests that the 

    late Senator Thomas J. Dodd personally implanted the 

    Nazi Weapons Law into U.S. legislation. What remains 

    unknown are his motives for doing so.

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To destroy gun control before more law-abiding Americans are 

murdered by criminals or madmen helped by gun control, you need 

to get hold of the evidence as presented in *Gun Control: Gateway 

to Tyranny*. You can then challenge the media, the most 

aggressive backers of gun control. Ask media personalities in 

your city or town why they back Nazi-based laws. You can demand 

repeal of GCA '68 and the thousands of state and local laws based 

on it. You can help to erase gun control, Hitler's last legacy.

 

GCA '68 puts your life at risk right now. You have a 

constitutional civil right to be armed in order to protect 

yourself, because under U.S. law the police have no duty to 

protect the average person:

 

"There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state 

against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if 

the state fails to protect its residents against such predators 

but it does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth 

Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the 

Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative 

liberties: it tells the state to let people alone; it does not 

require the federal government or the state to provide services, 

even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order" 

(Bowers v. DeVito, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 

686F.2d616 [1982]).

 

The Supreme Court last dealt with this issue in 1856; the 1982 

decision states the position in modern language. The laws of 

virtually every state parallel federal law (see JPFO Special 

Report "Dial 911 and Die!" covered in *Guns & Ammo*, July 1992). 

This has been so ever since the Constitution was adopted in 1791. 

As a result, the framers of the Second Amendment deliberately 

created an individual civil right to be armed. It is your only 

reliable defense against criminals. GCA '68 ties your hands and 

keeps you from carrying out your legal duty to ensure your own 

self-defense. GCA '68 thus undermines a pillar of U.S. law and 

helps criminals to kill law-abiding Americans. Hitler would be 

pleased.

 

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                             The Library of Congress

                             Washington, DC  July 12, 1968

    Hon. Thomas J. Dodd

    Chairman, Special Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile 

    Delinquency, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC

 

    Dear Senator Dodd: Your request of July 2, 1968, 

    addressed to the Legislative Reference Service, for the 

    translation of several German laws has been referred to 

    the Law Library for attention.

 

    In compliance with your request and with reference to 

    several telephone conversations between Miss Frank of 

    your Office and Mr. Fred Karpf, European Law Division, 

    we are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on 

    Weapons of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William 

    Solyom-Fekete of that Division, as well as the Xerox 

    copy of the original German text which you supplied.

 

    The translation of the decree implementing the Law on 

    Weapons of March 19, 1938, and the pertinent provisions 

    of the Federal Hunting Law of March 30, 1961, is in 

    preparation and will be sent to you as soon as 

    completed.

                             Sincerely yours,

                             Lewis C. Coffin,

                             Law Librarian

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Thus, GCA '68 marked a new approach to gun control. It replaced 

the Federal Firearms Act (June 30, 1938), which was based on the 

federal power to regulate interstate commerce. The 1938 law 

required firearms dealers to get a federal license (which then 

cost $1). Only dealers could ship firearms across state lines. 

Ordinary people could receive shipments from dealers.

 

In GCA '68 the government required that in almost all cases only 

dealers could send and receive firearms across state lines. This 

ended "mail order" sales of firearms by law-abiding persons who 

are not licensed dealers.

 

GCA '68 hits you even harder. Congress gave federal bureaucrats 

in Washington, D.C., the power to decide what kinds of firearms 

you can own.

 

The framers of GCA '68 borrowed an idea -- that certain firearms 

are "hunting weapons" -- from the Nazi Weapons Law (Section 21 

and Section 32 of the Regulations, page 61 and page 73, 

respectively, of *Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny*). The 

equivalent U.S. term, "sporting purpose," was used to classify 

firearms. But it was not defined anywhere in GCA '68. Thus, 

bureaucrats were empowered to ban whole classes of firearms. They 

have, in fact, done so.

 

We wanted to know the source of these new ideas. On reading "Dial 

911 and Die!" a JPFO member told us he had seen an article -- by 

Alan Stang in *Review of the News*, October 4, 1967 (pages 15-20) 

-- the author of which felt that the Nazi Weapons Law was the 

model for GCA '68. We found the article. But Stang did not 

reproduce the Nazi law, so we could not check his conclusions.

 

We started to hunt for the text of the Nazi Weapons Law. We 

eventually found it, in the law library of an Ivy League 

university.

 

Until 1943-44, the German government published its laws and 

regulations in the *Reichsgesetzblatt*, roughly the equivalent of 

the U.S. Federal Register. Carefully shelved by law librarians, 

the 1938 issues of this German government publication had 

gathered a lot of dust. In the *Reichsgesetzblatt* issue for the 

week of March 21, 1938, was the official text of the Weapons Law 

(March 18, 1938). It gave Hitler's Nazi party a stranglehold on 

the Germans, many of whom did not support the Nazis. We found 

that the Nazis did not invent gun control in Germany. The Nazis 

inherited gun control and then perfected it: they invented 

handgun control.

 

The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and 

Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a 

center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to 

curb "gang activity," violent street fights between Nazi party 

and Communist party thugs. All firearms owners and their firearms 

had to be registered. Sound familiar? Gun control did not save 

democracy in Germany. It helped to make sure that the toughest 

criminals, the Nazis, prevailed.

 

The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms 

when they *lawfully* took power in March 1933. The Nazis used 

these inherited registration lists to seize privately held 

firearms from persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly 

who owned which firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual 

ownership permits or decline to renew them.

 

In 1938, five years after taking power, the Nazis enhanced the 

1928 law. The Nazi Weapons Law introduced handgun control. 

Firearms ownership was restricted to Nazi party members and other 

"reliable" people.

 

The 1938 Nazi law barred Jews from businesses involving firearms. 

On November 10, 1938 -- one day after the Nazi party terror 

squads (the SS) savaged thousands of Jews, synagogues, and Jewish 

businesses throughout Germany -- new regulations under the 

Weapons Law specifically barred Jews from owning any weapons, 

even clubs or knives.

 

Given the parallels between the Nazi Weapons Law and the GCA '68 

[Gun Control Act, 1968], we concluded that the framers of the GCA 

'68 -- lacking any basis in American law to sharply cut back the 

civil rights of law-abiding Americans -- drew on the Nazi Weapons 

Law of 1938.

 

Finding the Nazi Weapons Law whetted our appetite. We wanted to 

know who implanted this Nazi cancer in America. We began by 

probing the backgrounds of lawmakers who championed gun control. 

We focused on those whose bills became part of GCA '68. GCA '68 

as enacted closely tracks proposals dating to August 1963. We 

felt that if the culprit were a lawmaker -- or a congressional 

staffer -- he or she would know Germany, German law and possibly 

even speak German. He or she probably would have spent time in 

Germany on business or during military service. Alternatively, if 

the culprit were not a member of Congress or a staffer, there 

would be testimony at the hearings to that effect.

 

Most potential suspects were quickly eliminated: they had no 

apparent ties to Germany. But one lawmaker caught our attention.

 

An old *Who's Who* entry showed he had been a senior member of 

the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nurnberg in 

1945-46. Thus, he had lived in Germany just after the Nazi 

period. His official duties required him to look at Nazi records, 

including Nazi laws. In 1963 he led the effort to greatly expand 

the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.

 

We then got a break. We told a legal scholar of our findings. He 

was intrigued. He sent us an extract from the record of hearings 

held a few months prior to the enactment of the GCA '68. At the 

end of June 1968, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to 

Investigate Juvenile Delinquency -- chaired by Thomas J. Dodd (D- 

CT) -- held hearings on bills: (1) "To Require the Registration 

of Firearms" (S.3604), (2) "To Disarm Lawless Persons" (S.3634) 

and (3) "To Provide for the Establishment of a National Firearms 

Registry" (S.3637), among others.

 

U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-MI) testified at these Senate 

hearings on gun control. Senator Joseph D. Tydings (D-MD) chaired 

some of these hearings, in Dodd's absence.

 

Rep. Dingell expressed concern that if firearms registration were 

required, it might lead to confiscation of firearms, as had 

happened in Nazi Germany. Tydings angrily accused Rep. Dingell of 

using "scare tactics":

 

"Are you inferring that our system here, gun registration or 

licensing, would in any way be comparable to the Nazi regime in 

Germany, where they had a secret police, and a complete 

takeover?"

 

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    Senators Strom Thurmond and Edward Kennedy are the only 

    members of the original (1968) Senate Judiciary 

    Committee who remain in the Senate, and on the committee

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Rep. Dingell backed away.

 

(Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile 

Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Congress, 2nd 

Session, June 26, 27 and 28 and July 8, 9 and 10, 1968, pp. 479- 

80, 505-6 cited as Subcommittee Hearings.)

 

Tydings later inserted into the hearing record various documents, 

"concerning the history of Nazism and gun confiscation."

 

Exhibit No. 62 (see reproduction [see inset, CN 2.81]) is 

fascinating. This letter -- dated July 12, 1968 -- is to 

Subcommittee Chairman Dodd from Lewis C. Coffin, Law Librarian at 

the Library of Congress. Coffin wrote:

 

"...we are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on Weapons 

of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William Solyom-Fekete of [the 

European Law Division] *as* *well* *as* *the* *Xerox* *of* *the* 

*original* *German* *text* *which* *you* *supplied*" 

(Subcommittee Hearings, p. 489, emphasis added).

 

This letter makes it public knowledge that at the end of June 

1968 -- 4 months before GCA '68 was enacted -- Senator Thomas J. 

Dodd, now deceased, personally owned a copy of the original 

German text of the Nazi Weapons Law.

 

Why did Dodd own the original German text of any Nazi law? Why 

did he make known that he owned it?

 

The Library of Congress then had (and still has) the 

*Reichsgesetzblatt* in its collection. The Library of Congress 

translator, Dr. Solyom-Fekete, could easily have used the Library 

of Congress' own copy.

 

Any member of Congress who wanted to read the Nazi Weapons Law 

need only have asked for it to be produced from the shelves of 

the Library of Congress and for it to be translated by Library of 

Congress experts. Why should any member of Congress ever have 

owned the original German text of the Nazi Weapons Law?

 

Without access to Tom Dodd's personal papers, archived under his 

heirs' control, we unfortunately cannot offer definite answers.

 

Dodd could have acquired the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law 

during his time at Nurnberg. But he had no need to do so.

 

Dodd did not personally handle the prosecution of Nazi Interior 

Minister Wilhelm Frick, who signed the Nazi Weapons Law. The case 

against Frick was presented by Robert M. W. Kempner, Assistant 

Trial Counsel for the United States (see *Trial of the Major War 

Criminals before the International Military Tribunal*, cited as 

TMWC, Vol. V, pp. 352-67, Nurnberg, Germany, 1947).

 

Nor should the Nazi Weapons Law otherwise have come to Dodd's 

attention. The Nazi Weapons Law was not used as evidence against 

Frick (see Kempner's speech, TMWC, Vol. V, pp. 352-67 and *Index 

of Laws, Decrees, Orders, Directives, and the Administration of 

Justice in Nazi Germany and Nazi-Dominated Countries*, TMWC, Vol. 

XXIII, pp. 430-33). The Nazi Weapons Law is not listed among 

documents submitted as evidence to the Tribunal by the American 

prosecutors (see Vol. XXIV, pp. 98-169).

 

The prosecutors at Nurnberg doubtless knew of the Nazi Weapons 

Law. They probably saw it in the *Reichsgesetzblatt*. On the same 

day that Nazi Interior Minister Frick signed the Weapons Law, 

March 18, 1938, he signed another law governing security measures 

in newly annexed Austria. This law concerning Austria appeared in 

the *Reichsgesetzblatt* -- directly in front of the Weapons Law 

-- and was introduced into evidence at Nurnberg 

(*Reichsgesetzblatt* 1938, I, p. 262; the Nazi Weapons Law was 

published in the same volume, p. 265; see TMWC, Vol. V, p. 358 

for reference to law concerning Austria).

 

Thus, the Nazi Weapons Law appeared to have no historical merit 

at Nurnberg and should not have attracted anyone's notice, 

certainly not to the extent of causing anyone to want to keep a 

copy of it as a separate document.

 

If Dodd got his copy of the original German text of the Nazi 

Weapons Law during his time at Nurnberg, it likely was part of a 

collection of documents, for example, issues of the 

*Reichsgesetzblatt*.

 

But if he acquired the original German text of the Nazi Weapons 

Law after his service at Nurnberg, he must have done so for a 

very specific reason. The Nazi Weapons Law plainly did not figure 

at Nurnberg.

 

We may safely conclude it had little, if any, interest for those 

interested in the history of the Nazis' rise to power. For 

example, the Nazi Weapons Law is not mentioned at all in William 

L. Shirer's very thorough study of Nazi Germany, *The Rise and 

Fall of the Third Reich* (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1950).

 

At the hearings held by Dodd's subcommittee at the end of June 

1968, Rep. Dingell had objected to the firearms registration 

provision then being discussed. Dodd may have offered his copy of 

the Nazi Weapons Law to show that the specific proposal did not 

resemble anything in the Nazi law.

 

He may not have realized that he was revealing a broader truth: 

that the whole fabric of GCA '68 was based on the Nazi Weapons 

Law, even if the specific registration proposal was not so based.

 

Alternatively, Dodd may not have cared whether or not anyone knew 

that he had the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law. He doubtless 

knew that months would pass before the hearing record was printed 

and so generally available for scrutiny. Thus, even if anyone 

then noticed the parallels between the two laws, the bill would 

already have become law.

 

Rep. Dingell does not appear to have pursued the matter: the 

firearms registration provision was not included in GCA '68. The 

Congress was stampeded on gun control by public enthusiasm. 

Martin Luther King had been murdered on April 4, 1968, and Robert 

F. Kennedy had been murdered on June 6, 1968.

 

We are not the first to have seen this hearing record. But we 

appear to be the first to have recognized its importance. This 

hearing record suggests strongly that the late Senator Thomas J. 

Dodd (D-CT) himself implanted the Nazi Weapons Law into American 

law, or, at very least, helped others to do so.

 

Now you know the ugly truth about the roots of GCA '68. But you 

need to see -- with your own eyes -- the hard evidence of the 

Nazi roots of gun control in America presented in *Gun Control: 

Gateway to Tyranny*.

 

If you want to destroy gun control, you can use this book to do 

it. You can demand the immediate repeal of the Nazi-inspired GCA 

'68 and all state laws based on it.

 

Of Senate Judiciary Committee members serving in 1968, only 

Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Strom Thurmond (D-SC) are still in 

the Senate. Both are still members of the Judiciary Committee. In 

light of the evidence presented above, will they now help to 

repeal GCA '68?

 

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    During hearings in 1968, Rep. John Dingell expressed his 

    concerns over proposed U.S. gun restrictions mimicking 

    those of Nazi Germany, He was chastised by then-Senator 

    Joseph Tydings, and Dingell backed down.

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Few lawmakers will try to defend the Nazis. And, if they do, you 

know what to do: vote them out at the next election, or sooner, 

if your state's laws provide for recall elections.

 

The Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, cleared the way for World 

War II and Nazi genocide against Jews, Gypsies and 7,000,000 

other people. If "Never Again" is to be a reality in America, the 

Nazi-based GCA '68 must be erased. Now.

 

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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)

2872 S. Wentworth Avenue

Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53207

 

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