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Thanks for this post.

I know (well) two of the people at the heart of the JPFO project to translate the Weimar and Nazi weapons laws. They also cooperated on a book about 20th century genocides in other countries. They have emphasized to me, time and time again, that the actual danger of gun control is not at the time of enactment, when a generally reasonable government is enacting the controls for some "reasonable" purpose. No, the true danger comes later, when a tyrant acquires sufficient power to get access to the information so freely given to a trusted government and to enforce the laws (usually through emergency decrees).

The 1928 Weimar Republic registration law gave the Nazis, once they assumed power, enough information to disarm most of their actual and potential opponents. Similar laws in other countries gave the Nazis a perfect tool to quash resistance, once the Wehrmacht had defeated the defending armed forces thereby allowing the Gestapo access to the police stations.

The historical lesson is: don't EVER let registration happen, because inevitably some person or group with no morality of any kind or respect for the rule of law will come to power. He or they will use everything at his/their disposal to destroy opposition, and a list of who has which guns and where they live is the most valuable information such people could ever acquire.

I, as someone who lost many relatives in the Shoah (a.k.a. Holocaust) will not allow myself to be disarmed. Ever. Period. I know all too well what happens to Jews who have no guns. One of my wife's close relatives, whom I have had the privilege of getting to know well, survived Bergen-Belsen, and has the tatoo to prove it (though he doesn't talk about it much). He saw his father and brother killed, and lost his whole family. He has lots of guns, including at least one full-auto Uzi, and always has at least one gun with him. I'll take my lessons from him.

If I somehow lose my guns, I WILL acquire more, even if I have to hit someone over the head with a rock, brick or baseball bat (let's see them outlaw those). With regard to what to do with a single gun against a tyrannical regime, the following threads are, shall we say, interesting:

What good can a handgun do against an Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37519eb3511d.htm

What good can a handgun do against an Army? Thread II
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38fcb918771f.htm

What good can a handgun do against an Army? Thread III
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b8a3ddb4869.htm