[weikel]

Good article on the link between gun control and government oppression.

[weikel]

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[waterstraat]

Excellent!

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[backhoe]

I posted a link to your article ( which is quite good ) here:

-The Firing Line-Nazi Repression of Firearms Owners--

If you aren't familiar with The Firing Line, take a look around- it's a nice site & forum.

[Joe Brower]

If ever my resolve were to waver in the domestic struggle against totalitarian measures like firearms registration, all I need to do is think of this image to once again steel my take on the matter:

Wedding rings found by Allied troops after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Anyone who blithely says to themselves "It can't happen here" is whistling past the graveyard of history.

[Mulder]

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[Pharmboy]

Thanks for post and links.

Any government that wants to disarm its law-abiding citizens cannot be on their side.

[longshadow]

I have an aquaintance who, as a child of an ethnic German family living in Nazi-occupied Poland during the war, experienced first hand how the Nazi's dealt with civilians, even ethnic Germans, who kept illegal firearms.

His family had lived for 150 years in an area of Romania called Moldova, until the Soviets annexed the country in the late 1930's, and shortly thereafter they were summarily ejected off the farm they owned, along with the rest of the ethnic German minority who lived there.

After wandering around Austria, the Nazis finally ordered his family to take up residence on an abandoned farm in Poland. One day while home alone, my aquaintance was rummaging through what few possesions the family had been able to keep after fleeing the Russians, and discovered an old shotgun and some shells that his father had carefully hidden. Being a young lad of ten or twelve, he did what most boys of that age would: he rounded up some of his friends whom he thought would be "impressed" by his illicit find, and they all snuck out back of the barn to shoot the shotgun at some old boards.

Word of this adventure spread quickly, and within a day or so the Gestapo showed up to search the house, found the gun, and dragged his father away "for questioning."

Needless to say, the shotgun was confiscated. His father was eventually released after three days, but only after the Gestapo satisfied themselves that he wasn't part of some resistance group, and with the stern warning that in the future, if there was any "trouble" in that area, his father would be on the list of "the usual suspects." For the balance of the war, whenever anything suspicious occurred, my aquaintance's dad was invariably rounded up along with the other "usual suspects" and "interrogated."

And this is how the Nazis treated ethnic Germans who they caught with firearms....

[Demidog]

Given the above facts, it is not difficult to understand why the National Rifle Association opposed gun registration at the time and still does.

False. The NRA does not oppose registration. In fact they do not even oppose the 20,000 gun laws currently on the books. They are demanding that the federal government enforce them vigorously, some of which are registration schemes, including the GCA of 1934 and its amendments in 1968 which calls for the registration of all machine gun owners.