Didn't Hitler outlaw firearms in Germany, the first month in office?

Question

After Jello-head leaves office, don't think some bull dyke you elect isn't going to use these laws to pull down your pants.

Answer 1

Yes, the Nazis first act was to remove the firearms from the people so there could be no opposition, only the Police, Wehrmacht, Forrestry Officials, Customs, State Security, Ss, and the shortlived Brown-Shirts had access to weapons of a military calibre.

Answer 2

Canada does not outlaw firearms. Handguns are restricted, meaning that the owner or possible purchaser must acquire proper documentation allowing that person to possess the handgun. Criminals need not apply. Bonafide collectors are eligible. As for most rifles and shotguns, a person simply needs to pass a hunter safety course and then acquire a "possession and acquistion" licence. This allows the person to acquire guns for their personal use. Several years ago the governement inplemented a law requiring all gun owners to register their guns. This was viewed with great distain by gun owners, but glee by bleeding heart city dwellers who had never seen the outdoors. This program, which has yet to be discontinued, has cost the government BILLIONS of dollars and has not met their objective. It was a waste of time and money. There is a private members bill being put forward on the floor of the House of Commons where the gun registration program be ended. I eagerly await the results. Lastly, we have what is referred to as Prohibited firearms. These being the assault rifle types. ie: AK47. These weapons are illegal to possess.

Answer 3

I don't know if it was the first month, but he did eventually outlaw gun ownership by everyone except the military and the police. When the police have all the guns, you have a police state. I don't understand why more people can't see the blatantly obvious.

Answer 4

Hitler made everyone register their firearms,then when he had the bright idea to conquer the world he had a list of everyone that had firearms and confiscated them.Many gun owners disappeared,and the citizens were unarmed to defend themselves.

Answer 5

The American government could pave the roads with the bodies of it's citizens rather they have deer rifles and .380 pistols or not. Sounds like you got something against women and gays too. Sounds like you're in the wrong country in the wrong century... you belong right there with Hitler and all the Nazi's.

Answer 6

He didn't have to. There were already laws in place that were passed in an attempt to keep him OUT of power!

Gun control, the Law on Firearms and Ammunition, was introduced to Germany in 1928 under the Weimar regime (there was no Right to Arms in the Constitution of 1919) in large part to disarm the nascent private armies, e.g. the Nazi SA (aka "the brownshirts"). The Weimar government was attempting to bring some stability to German society and politics (a classic "law and order" position). Violent extremist movements (of both the Left and Right) were actively attacking the young, and very fragile, democratic state. A government that cannot maintain some degree of public order cannot sustain its legitimacy. Nor was the German citizenry well grounded in Constitutional, republican government (as was evidenced in their choices at the ballot box). Gun control was not initiated at the behest or on behalf of the Nazis - it was in fact designed to keep them, or others of the same ilk, from executing a revolution against the lawful government. In the strictest sense, the law succeeded - the Nazis did not stage an armed coup.

The 1928 law was subsequently extended in 1938 under the Third Reich (this action being the principal point in support of the contention that the Nazis were advocates of gun control). However, the Nazis were firmly in control of Germany at the time the Weapons Law of 1938 was created. Further, this law was not passed by a legislative body, but was promulgated under the dictatorial power granted Hitler in 1933. Obviously, the Nazis did not need gun control to attain power as they already (in 1938) possessed supreme and unlimited power in Germany. The only feasible argument that gun control favored the Nazis would be that the 1928 law deprived private armies of a means to defeat them. The basic flaw with this argument is that the Nazis did not seize power by force of arms, but through their success at the ballot box (and the political cunning of Hitler himself). Secondary considerations that arise are that gun ownership was not that widespread to begin with, and, even imagining such ubiquity the German people, Jews in particular, were not predisposed to violent resistance to their government.

The Third Reich did not need gun control (in 1938 or at any time thereafter) to maintain their power. The success of Nazi programs (restoring the economy, dispelling socio-political chaos) and the misappropriation of justice by the apparatus of terror (the Gestapo) assured the compliance of the German people. Arguing otherwise assumes a resistance to Nazi rule that did not exist. Further, supposing the existance of an armed resistance also requires the acceptance that the German people would have rallied to the rebellion. This argument requires a total suspension of disbelief given everything we know about 1930s Germany. Why then did the Nazis introduce this program? As with most of their actions (including the formation of the Third Reich itself), they desired to effect a facade of legalism around the exercise of naked power. It is unreasonable to treat this as a normal part of lawful governance, as the rule of law had been entirely demolished in the Third Reich. Any direct quotations, of which there are several, that pronounce some beneficence to the Weapons Law should be considered in the same manner as all other Nazi pronouncements - absolute lies.

The simple conclusion is that there are no lessons about the efficacy of gun control to be learned from the Germany of the first half of this century. It is all too easy to forget the seductive allure that fascism presented to all the West, bogged down in economic and social morass. What must be remembered is that the Nazis were master manipulators of popular emotion and sentiment, and were disdainful of people thinking for themselves. There is the danger to which we should pay great heed. Not fanciful stories about Nazi's seizing guns.

Answer 7

You want contact agency call AIPAC they able to give you accuracy answer. They crazy about hitler and probably adore him.

Answer 8

I know that he did, but I'm not exactly sure the date.

Answer 9

hooooweeee....you can have ma gun when ya prize it from ma col' dead fangers! Yeeeeehaaaaaaa!

Answer 10

Do you think that if the government wanted to crush you, you having a gun or gun(s) would stand in their way?