“Actually Ma’am, Hitler was a gun grabber. Y’know, just like you.”
Actually the Weimar Republic passed the gun confiscation law in 1919 due to provisions in the Treaty of Versailles and again in 1920 fearing armed rebellion.
The possession of any type of gun or ammunition would cost the guilty party up to 5 years in prison and a 100,000 Mark fine.
In 1928 the gun laws were relaxed some.
In 1938 the NAZI government relaxed them again.
Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition.
The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, and the possession of ammunition.
The legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18.
Permits were valid for three years, rather than one year.
Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.
Manufacture of arms and ammunition continued to require a permit, with the proviso that such permits would no longer be issued to any company even partly owned by Jews; Jews could not manufacture or deal in firearms or ammunition.
The 1938 Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons, which came into force the day after Kristallnacht, effectively deprived all Jews living under the Third Reich within the occupied Sudetenland and Austria of the right to possess any form of weapons, including truncheons, knives, firearms and ammunition. Exceptions were made for Jews and Poles who were foreign nationals under §3 of the act.
Before that, some police forces used the pre-existing “trustworthiness” clause to disarm Jews on the basis that “the Jewish population ‘cannot be regarded as trustworthy’”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany
Thank you for that research that indicates Hitler relaxed many of the gun controls - but stiffened them for the Jews. Obviously the Jewish kid can still use it as an argument against his teacher.