Chipping Away at the Second Amendment

In 1993, Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman of the group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership published a document titled "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny," which highlights the similarities between the Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938 and the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968. Dedicated to the "tens of millions of victims of Nazi 'gun control," the book maintains that "the Nazi Weapons Law is the blueprint for 'gun control' in America." The following is a synopsis of their points:

Access to ammunition and reloading components (bullets, gun powder, brass, and especially primers) will be controlled. Police-issued ammunition and reloading components acquisition permits will be required.. A Firearms Owner Identity card issued by the federal government will be required. (In fact, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Jersey already have such cards.)

I know Jay Simkin, and I spoke with Aaron Zelman back in the ‘90s. Two more truthful and sincere people you could not hope to meet...nor two more pro-gun people.

Zelman specifically formed JPFO to counter the (still strong) impression that all Jews were anti-gun. He perceived this belief to be the cause of yet more anti-Semitism, and wanted to both avoid that and to keep this nation strong with an armed populace (the militia). Two of his most hated politicians were people he viewed as traitors to their own people, Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein. Alas, both are still sitting Senators, while Aaron is no longer with us...but his ideas will live on.

WRT the topic of this thread, the Nazi Weapons Law WAS the basis for the ‘68 Gun Control Act. One of its chief sponsors and proponents was Senator Thomas Dodd of CT (Chris Dodd’s father). Thomas Dodd was one of the lawyers for the US during the Nuremberg trials, and had more than adequate access to this material.

From the JPFO website selling this book:

“Produced by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, this book contains the German language original of the Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, a page-by-page translation, and then a page-by-page comparison with the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968. The similarities are striking. The book also contains an actual copy of the correspondence between the U.S. bill’s sponsor, Sen. Thomas Dodd, and the Library of Congress which translated the Nazi law for him.” http://shop.jpfo.org/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=24

It is the height of historical irony that a law passed in Nazi Germany was used as the intellectual and ideological basis for a severe gun control measure in the US, and was/is strongly backed by Jews whose relatives were among the first victimized by the original law. For me, as an unfailingly pro-gun American of Jewish heritage, it is a fact that enrages me every time that I think about it. Frankly, Jews should oppose it JUST BECAUSE its origin was in Nazi Germany and its fanatical desire to disarm (in preparation for massacre) its “sub-human” victims.

“Nazis are socialists. So are the gun grabbers.”

Indeed. My family has been victimized by both Russian Leftists (Socialists from the economic standpoint) and German Leftists. The Russian ones, A.K.A. Communists, beat my 74-year-old great grandfather so badly that he died shortly after being released from an NKVD dungeon, and they essentially imprisoned the rest of the family (except for my grandfather and one of his brothers) in the gigantic open-air prison known as the USSR. As for the German Leftists...they murdered over 100 people in my extended family in Poland. BTW, I’ve studied the Holocaust rather extensively, and have yet to come across a film or written account of Jews getting on to cattle cars armed. In fact, it is a feature of Nazi gun control that it facilitates the self-loading of cattle cars.

The Leftist scum - regardless if they are my fellow citizens or UN invaders - will never get any of my firearms. They may kill me to get them, but this time it will not be for free.

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