Germany again tightens rules governing (American's) privately-owned firearms

Stars and Stripes ^ | January 2, 2003 | Jon R. Anderson

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmm....Hitler's returning?

[Winston Smith]

I hear the echo's of 1938,193,19,1....

[Sparta]

Ping!!!

If you want on or off my Germany ping list, let me know.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Have I mentioned lately that Germany should go piss up a rope?

[lizma]

I don't think he ever left.

Heck these people haven't shaken off an aristocratic monocracy yet. None of Europe has.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

bang

[GreenCell]

This is pure unadulterated BS...Gestapo actions re-emerging and U.S. soldiers being affected. We should pull completely out of that country and let them go their separate ways...albeit probably back to goose-stepping Nazi's....This Germany is a poor excuse for a country...it's an emberassment to NATO and other countries tyring to get ahead.

[HogFixer]

And, OUR government will help them. Makes me sick. Another country I don't want an assignment for.

[Sparta]

German police checking gun registrations

[Mulder]

What purpose does having US troops in Germany serve now that the Soviet threat is gone?

We need to pull out of Germany, especially if they are going to harass American servicemen with obscene regulations.

[GreenCell]

There still are some good things to see and do in Germany and it used to be a great assignment but, the Neo-Socialist Pre-Nazi's have ruined everything.....

[goodnesswins]

My husband used to want to travel to Europe - England, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, etc.....as he has never flown across the pond. Over the last few years that desire has been blotted out - because they have become so CRAZY in their politics.

[Fiddlstix]

Hmmmm.....maybe they're planning on starting another world war and you can't have private ownership of guns if that's your plan....
(After all, they were successful at that twice in a row)
(.....of their "many" real successes)
</sarcasm>

[Bedford Forrest]

"We need to pull out of Germany, especially if they are going to harass American servicemen with obscene regulations."

The land of Himmler, Fassbinder and Goebbels is itself an obscenity. Nothing left of it now but a pack of cowardly degenerates and fascist corporatists desperately trying to find a safe place for their money. Why we waste money protecting these arrogant vermin from the sand goblins is beyond comprehension. But we have also wasted a lot more lives and money by putting clapped out Army generals and the odd Kraut scribbler in the SecState slot. Such people tend to overestimate [by orders of magnitude]the costs we might incur by telling all of the Eurotrash states to go pound sand on their dime, not ours.

[PatrioticAmerican]

So? Several states have outrights bans on soem guns.

[muawiyah]

Germany's greatest problems have never arisen as a consequence of the private ownership of guns. Actually, it's been the other way around - Deutschlanders have suffered mightily from the state monopoly of violence.

One would imagine they enjoy this situation!

[Imal]

The new rule is the latest evolution in gun regulation changes that began in 1999

Actually, that process began in 1928, when the Weimar Republic enacted the first of a series of "gun control" laws that ended up assisting the Nazis in seizing and maintaining power.

This particular act has a ring to it. From Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons, enacted on November 11, 1938:

§1 Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.

§2 Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew's possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation.

[expatpat]

Well..., the current mess in Germany looks a lot like the Weimar Republic.

[Clemenza]

From what I hear, UK gun laws make Germany, to say nothing of New York State, look like Texas.