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NEAL KNOX REPORT JPFO PROVES ME WRONG By Neal Knox



The 1968 Gun Control Act mirrors the Nazi gun laws of 1938.



WASHINGTON, D.C. (May20) -- Last fall I reported to you about a new

book from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership which

charges that the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA) was a direct copy of the

Nazi gun laws of 1938, except for the registration provisions and the

flat prohibition against Jews being allowed to buy or possess guns.



The authors of "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny", Jay Simkin and Aaron

Zelman (2872 Wentworth, Milwaukee. Wis. 53207; $19.95 + $2.95 S&H),

had obtained and translated the German 1928 and 1938 laws, and laid

them out side-by-side with GCA '68. The similarities are astounding.



I was particularly struck by the sameness of the German provisions to

parts of the original Dodd bills which were later changed or

eliminated. For instance, the first Dodd bill -- like the German law -

defined as antiques guns made before 1870 (the approximate era of

non-cartridge guns).



However, a reasonable person could argue that the methods used to

regulate transfers of sales in both laws could easily be devised

independently -- So I wrote last October: "Did the authors of the 1968

Act dig out a dusty, brittle copy of the Nazi law and translate it

into Amendment 90 of S.1? Not likely."



Well, it appears I was wrong, Senator Tom Dodd (D-Conn.), author of

the 1968 Gun Control Act and its predecessor bills, did have a copy of

the German law.



According to a letter dated July 12, 1968 -- shortly after passage of

the Omnibus Crime Act, which contained most of GCA '68, but four

months before enactment of the full law -- the Library of Congress

provided Senator Dodd a requested translation of the 1938 German Law

on Weapons and returned "the Xerox copy of the original German text

which you supplied."



Where did Tom Dodd get the German law? When did he get it?



Zelman and Simkin, in an article in the May 1993 "Guns & Ammo"

magazine, make the reasonable guess that Dodd acquired a copy during

1946 when he was a senior member of the U.S. prosecution team during

the Nurnberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.



Why did he want it translated in June, 1968, when he had long been

pushing virtually the same law -- indicating that he had a translation

years before? Dodd's papers might answer that perplexing question, but

they are at the Connecticut State Library under limited access

controlled by his son, Chris Dodd, the present Senator from

Connecticut.



The hearings of June and July 1968 concerned not just the Gun Control

Act but two gun registration bills -- both of which Dodd opposed. I

don't know whether Dodd's opposition came from true conviction or

because he had continuously denied that the "Dodd Bill" was a "first

step" toward gun registration, and was made a liar when President

Johnson and Senator Joe Tydings (D-Md.) tried to push through gun

registration immediately after passage of the Omnibus Crime Act.



But a person close to Dodd -- who must remain nameless even today --

told me at the time that Dodd was very upset by the registration bills

and had told him: "That's a Nazi bill."



Dodd's unusual comment, which had banged around my brain for 25 years,

took on a new meaning when I learned that Simkin had found evidence

that Dodd possessed a copy of the Nazi Weapons Law, and wasn't being

rhetorical, but was stating a fact.



Represenative John Dingell testified during the hearings that the

Nazis had used registration laws to disarm "unreliable" Germans and

citizens of invaded countries.



He was upbraided by Tydings -- who was chairing Dodd's committee - for

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...?" Tydings then said he was inserting items in the hearings

record concerning the German gun laws and confiscations.



Many months later, after registration had failed and GCA '68 had

passed, the hearing record was published. No one noticed that Tydings'

Exhibit 62, the translation of the Nazi gun laws, showed that he and

President Johnson were, indeed, trying to emulate the Nazi

registration laws -- and that with the Omnibus Crime Act and Gun

Control Act Dodd had copied the rest.





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