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To: dvan

Although the Nazis made good use of gun laws, I believe gun control was established under the Weimar Republic. Such laws ironically were put in place to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis and communists.


2 posted on 11/17/2007 8:04:29 PM PST by Ajnin (Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
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To: Ajnin
Although the Nazis made good use of gun laws, I believe gun control was established under the Weimar Republic. Such laws ironically were put in place to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis and communists.

And I believe that the GCA of 1968 was directly based on the German gun control laws.

Mark

9 posted on 11/17/2007 8:38:15 PM PST by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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