"Gun Control’s" Nazi Connection
Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968
was lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation.
Reference the English translation (plus a link to the original (copy) in German.)
Original article appeared in Guns and Ammo Magazine May 1993
Are you tired of being told that "gun control" is a chronic pain
that you have to accept because there's no cure? Do you -- a law abiding
person -- want to be free: to own whichever firearms you want to own,
regardless of where in America you live; from waiting periods, gun bans,
magazine capacity restrictions, etc.; to spend your time on the range
or in the field, rather than fighting "gun control"?
Are you tired of giving hard earned bucks to efforts that have
at best only slowed the gun grabbers' push toward firearms registration
and confiscation? If you have had enough of death by a thousand cuts,
you are ready to take action to wipe out "gun control" -- now.
Members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
(JPFO) consider "gun control" to be an aggressive cancer. JPFO has a
cure, a way to destroy "gun control". JPFO has hard evidence that shows
that the Nazi Weapons Law (March 18, 1938) is the source of the U.S Gun
Control Act of 1968 (GCA ’68). Adolph Hitler signed the Nazi Weapons
Law. The Gestapo (Nazi National Secret Police) enforced it. In "Gun
Control": Gateway to Tyranny we present the official German text of the
Nazi Weapons Law and a side-by-side translation into English. Even more
deadly: a side-by-side, section-by-section comparison of the GCA ’68
with the Nazi Weapons Law. If you have this in your hands, no one can
tell you that you're imagining things.
The clincher: JPFO
knows who implanted into American law cancerous ideas from the Nazi Weapons Law.
The likely culprit is a former senator, now deceased. We have
documentary proof -- see below -- that he had the original text of the
Nazi Weapons Law in his possession 4 months before the bill that became
GCA ’68 was signed into law.
This former senator was a senior member of the U.S. team that
helped to prosecute Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, in
1945-46. That is probably where he found out about the Nazi Weapons Law.
He may have gotten a copy of it then, or at a later date. We cannot
imagine why any U.S. lawmaker would own original texts of Nazi laws. To
find out his name, read on.
With this hard evidence in your hands and in your head, you can
destroy cancerous "gun control". You can challenge anyone who backs
"gun control". You can show them the Nazi ideas, line by line.
The parallels between the Nazi law and GCA ’68 will leap at you
from the page. For example, law abiding firearm owners in Illinois,
Massachusetts and New Jersey must carry identification cards based on
formats from the Nazi Weapons Law. Nazi based laws have no place in
America. Thousands of Americans died or were wounded in the war to wipe
out the Nazis. They did not suffer or die so that Hitler's ideas could
live on in America and kill more Americans. Remember Killeen, Texas! The
23 who died in Luby's Cafeteria there died because they obeyed Nazi
inspired "gun control" laws. The law forced them, unarmed, to face an
armed madman.
To destroy "gun control" before more law abiding Americans are
murdered by criminals or madmen helped by "gun control", you need to get
hold of the evidence as presented in "Gun Control": Gateway to Tyranny.
You can then challenge the media, the most aggressive backers of "gun
control". Ask media personalities in your city or town why they back
Nazi based laws. You can help to erase "gun control",
Hitler's last legacy.
GCA ’68 puts your life at risk right now. You have a
constitutional civil right to be armed in order to protect yourself,
because under U.S law the police have no duty to protect the average
person:
"There is no constitutional right to be protected by the
state (or Federal) against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is
monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such
predators but it does not violate the due process clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the
Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: it
tells the state (gov't) to let people alone; it does not require the
federal government or the state to provide services, even so elementary a
service as maintaining law and order"
(Bowers v. DeVito, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 686F.2d 616 [1982]).
The Supreme Court last dealt with this issue in 1856; the 1982
decision states the position in modern language. The laws of virtually
every state parallel federal law (see JPFO Special Report
Dial 911 and Die!
covered in Guns & Ammo, July 1992). This has been so ever since the
Constitution was adopted in 1791. As a result, the framers of the
Second Amendment deliberately created (guaranteed) an individual civil
right to be armed. It is your only reliable defense against criminals.
GCA ’68 ties your hands and keeps you from carrying out your legal duty
to ensure your own self defense. GCA ’68 thus undermines a pillar of
U.S. law and helps criminals to kill law abiding Americans. Hitler would
be pleased.
Thus, GCA ’68 marked a new approach to "gun control". It
replaced the Federal Firearms Act (June 30, 1938), which was based on
the federal power to regulate interstate commerce. The 1938 law required
firearms dealers to get a federal license (which then cost $1). Only
dealers could ship firearms across state lines. Ordinary people could
receive shipments from dealers.
In GCA ’68 the government required that in almost all cases
only dealers could send and receive firearms across state lines. This
ended "mail order" sales of firearms by law abiding persons who are not
licensed dealers. GCA ’68 hits you even harder. Congress gave federal
bureaucrats in Washington D.C., the power to decide what kinds of
firearms you can own. The framers of GCA ’68 borrowed an idea -- that
certain firearms are "hunting weapons" -- from the Nazi Weapons Law
(Section 21 and Section 32 of the Regulations, page 61 and page 73,
respectively, of "Gun Control": Gateway to Tyranny). The equivalent U.S.
term, "sporting purpose," was used to classify firearms. But it was not
defined anywhere in GCA ’68. Thus, bureaucrats were empowered to ban
whole classes of firearms. They have, in fact, done so.
We wanted to know the source of these new ideas. On reading
"Dial 911 and Die!" a JPFO member told us he had seen an article -- by
Alan Stang in 'Review of the News,' October 4, 1967 (pages 15-20) -- the
author of which felt that the Nazi Weapons Law was the model for GCA
’68. We found the article. But Stang did not reproduce the Nazi law, so
we could not check his conclusions.
We started to hunt for the text of the Nazi Weapons Law. We eventually found it, in the law library of an Ivy League university.
Until 1943-44, the German government published its laws and
regulations in the 'Reichsgesetzblatt,' roughly the equivalent of the
U.S. Federal Register. Carefully shelved by law librarians, the 1938
issues of this German government publication had gathered a lot of dust.
In the 'Reichsgesetzblatt' issue for the week of March 21, 1938, was
the official text of the Weapons Law (March 18, 1938). It gave Hitler's
Nazi party a stranglehold on the Germans, many of whom did not support
the Nazis. We found that the Nazis did not invent "gun control" in
Germany. The Nazis inherited gun control and then perfected it: they
invented handgun control.
The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and
Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a
center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to curb "gang
activity," violent street fights between Nazi party and Communist party
thugs. All firearm owners and their firearms had to be registered.
Sound familiar? "Gun control" did not save democracy in Germany. It
helped to make sure that the toughest criminals, the Nazis, prevailed.
The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms
when they 'lawfully' took over in March 1933. The Nazis used these
inherited registration lists to seize privately held firearms from
persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly who owned which
firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual ownership permits or
decline to renew them.
In 1938, five years after taking power, the Nazis enhanced the
1928 law. The Nazi Weapons Law introduced handgun control. Firearms
ownership was restricted to Nazi party members and other "reliable"
people.
The 1938 Nazi law barred Jews from businesses involving
firearms. On November 10. 1938 -- one day after the Nazi party terror
squads (the SS) savaged thousands of Jews, synagogues and Jewish
businesses throughout Germany -- new regulations under the Weapons Law
specifically barred Jews from owning any weapons, even clubs or knives.
Given the parallels between the Nazi Weapons Law and the GCA
’68, we concluded that the framers of the GCA ’68 -- lacking any basis
in American law to sharply cut back the civil rights of law abiding
Americans -- drew on the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938.
Finding the Nazi Weapons Law whetted our appetite. We wanted to
know who implanted this Nazi cancer in America. We began by probing the
backgrounds of lawmakers who championed "gun control". We focused on
those whose bills became part of GCA ’68. GCA ’68 as enacted closely
tracks proposals dating to August 1963. We felt that if the culprit were
a lawmaker -- or a congressional staffer -- he or she would know
Germany, German law and possibly even speak German. He or she probably
would have spent time in Germany on business or during military service.
Alternatively, if the culprit were not a member of Congress or a
staffer, there would be testimony at the hearings to that effect.
Most potential suspects were quickly eliminated; they had no apparent ties to Germany. But one lawmaker caught our attention.
An old "Who's Who" entry showed he had been a senior member of
the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nuremberg in
1945-46. Thus, he had lived in Germany just after the Nazi period. His
official duties required him to look at Nazi records, including Nazi
laws. In 1963 he led the effort to greatly expand the Federal Firearms
Act of 1938.
We then got a break. We told a legal scholar of our findings.
He was intrigued. He sent us an extract from the record of hearings held
a few months prior to the enactment of GCA ’68. At the end of June
1968, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to investigate Juvenile
Delinquency -- chaired by Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT) -- held hearings on
bills: (1) "To Require the Registration of Firearms" (S.3604). (2) "To
Disarm Lawless Persons" (S.3634) and (3) "To Provide for the
Establishment of a National Firearms Registry" (S.3637), among others.
U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-MI) testified at these
Senate hearings on "gun control". Senator Joseph D. Tydings (D-MD)
chaired some of these hearings, in Dodd's absence.
Rep. Dingell expressed concern that if firearms registration
were required, it might lead to confiscation of firearms, as had
happened in Nazi Germany. Tydings angrily accused Rep. Dingell of using
"scare tactics":
"Are you inferring that our system here, gun registration or
licensing, would in any way be comparable to the Nazi regime in Germany,
where they had a secret police, and a complete takeover?"
Rep. Dingell backed away.
(Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile
Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Congress, 2nd
Session, June 26, 27 and 28 and July 8, 9 and 10. 1968, pp. 479-80,
505-6 cited as Subcommittee Hearings.)
Tydings later inserted into the hearing record various documents, "concerning the history of Nazism and gun confiscation."
Exhibit No. 62 (see reproduction) is fascinating. This letter
-- dated July 12, 1968 -- is to Subcommittee Chairman Dodd from Lewis C.
Coffin, Law Librarian at the Library of Congress. Coffin wrote:
" ... we are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on
Weapons of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William Solyom-Fekete of [the
European Law Division -- ed.] as well as the Xerox of the original
German text which you supplied" (Subcommittee Hearings, p. 489, emphasis
added).
This letter makes it public knowledge that at the end of June
1968 -- 4 months before GCA ’68 was enacted -- Senator Thomas J. Dodd,
now deceased, personally owned a copy of the original German text of the
Nazi Weapons Law.
Why did Dodd own the original German text of any Nazi law? Why did he make known that he owned it?
The Library of Congress then had (and still has) the
’Reichsgesetzblatt’ in its collection. The Library of Congress
translator, Dr. Solyom-Fekete, could easily have used the Library of
Congress’ own copy.
Any member of Congress who wanted to read the Nazi Weapons Law
need only have asked for it to be produced from the shelves of the
Library of Congress and for it to be translated by Library of Congress
experts. Why should any member of Congress ever have owned the original
German text of the Nazi Weapons Law?
Without access to Tom Dodd's personal papers, archived under his heirs’ control, we unfortunately cannot offer definite answers.
Dodd could have acquired the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law during his time at Nuremberg. But he had no need to do so.
Dodd did not personally handle the prosecution of Nazi Interior
Minister Wilhelm Frick, who signed the Nazi Weapons Law. The case
against Frick was presented by Robert M.W. Kempner, Assistant Trial
Counsel for the United States (see ’Trial of the Major War Criminals
before the International Military Tribunal,’ cited as TMWC, Vol. V, pp.
352-67, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947).
Nor should the Nazi Weapons Law otherwise have come to Dodd's
attention. The Nazi Weapons Law was not used as evidence against Frick
(see Kempner's speech, TMWC, V, pp. 352-67 and 'Index of Laws, Decrees,
Orders, Directives, and the Administration of Justice in Nazi Germany
and Nazi Dominated Countries', TMWC, Vol. XXIII, pp. 430-33). The Nazi
Weapons Law is not listed among documents submitted as evidence to the
Tribunal by the American prosecutors (see Vol. XXIV, pp. 98-169).
The prosecutors at Nuremberg doubtless knew of the Nazi Weapons
Law. They probably saw it in the ’Reichsgesetzblatt.’ On the same day
that Nazi Interior Minister Frick signed the Weapons Law, March 18,
1938, he signed another law governing security measures in newly annexed
Austria. This law concerning Austria appeared in the
'Reichsgesetzblatt' -- directly in front of the Weapons Law -- and was
introduced into evidence at Nuremberg (’Reichsgesetzblatt’ 1938, I, p.
262; the Nazi Weapons Law was published in the same volume, p. 265; see
TMWC, Vol. V, p.358 for reference to law concerning Austria).
Thus, the Nazi Weapons Law appeared to have no historical merit
at Nuremberg and should not have attracted anyone’s notice, certainly
not to the extent of causing anyone to want to keep a copy of it as a
separate document.
If Dodd got his copy of the original German text of the Nazi
Weapons Law during his time at Nuremberg, it likely was part of a
collection of documents, for example, issues of the ’Reichsgesetzblatt’.
But if he acquired the original German text of the Nazi Weapons
Law after his service at Nuremberg, he must have done so for a very
specific reason. The Nazi Weapons Law plainly did not figure at
Nuremberg.
We may safely conclude it had little, if any, interest for
those interested in the history of the Nazis’ rise to power. For
example, the Nazi Weapons Law is not mentioned at all in William L.
Shirer’s very thorough study of Nazi Germany, ’The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich’ (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1950).
At the hearings held by Dodd’s subcommittee at the end of June
1968, Rep. Dingell had objected to the firearms registration provision
then being discussed. Dodd may have offered his copy of the Nazi Weapons
Law to show that the specific proposal did not resemble anything in the
Nazi law.
He may not have realized that he was revealing a broader truth;
that the whole fabric of GCA ’68 was based on the Nazi Weapons Law,
even if the specific registration proposal was not so based.
Alternatively, Dodd may not have cared whether or not anyone
knew that he had the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law. He doubtless
knew that months would pass before the hearing record was printed and so
generally available for scrutiny. Thus, even if anyone then noticed the
parallels between the two laws, the bill would already have become law.
Rep. Dingell does not appear to have pursued the matter: the
firearms registration provision was not included in GCA ’68. The
Congress was stampeded on "gun control" by public enthusiasm. Martin
Luther King had been murdered on April 4, 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy
had been murdered on June 6, 1968.
We are not the first to have seen this hearing record. But we
appear to be the first to have recognized its importance. This hearing
record suggests strongly that the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT)
himself implanted the Nazi Weapons Law into American law, or, at very
least, helped others to do so.
Now you know the ugly truth about the roots of GCA ’68. But you
need to see -- with your own eyes -- the hard evidence of the Nazi
roots of "gun control" in America presented in "Gun Control": Gateway to
Tyranny.
If you want to destroy "gun control", you can use this book to do it.
The Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, cleared the way for
World War II and Nazi genocide against the Jews, Gypsies and 7,000,000
other people.
The 1938 Nazi Weapons Law that disarmed, enslaved &
murdered the men above, is alive and well in the United States, and is
called, "The Gun Control act of 1968", and is enforced by the modern day
Gestapo, known as the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (BATFE)."
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