Ray Keller
2013-01-10 20:20:55 UTC
http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id14.html
Nazi Gun Control
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall
by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to
the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So
let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will
bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout
the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points
must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler
...excerpt...
Armed citizens were hurting the Nazis, who took the sternest measures. The
Nazis imposed the death penalty on a Pole or Jew: "If he is in unlawful
possession of firearms, . . . or if he has credible information that a Pole
or a Jew is in unlawful possession of such objects, and fails to notify the
authorities forthwith."
Given the above facts, it is not difficult to understand why the National
Rifle Association opposed gun registration at the time and still does. The
American Riflemen for February 1942 reported:
From Berlin on January 6th the German official radio broadcast--"The
German military commander for Belgium and Northern France announced
yesterday that the population would be given a last opportunity to surrender
firearms without penalty up to January 20th and after that date anyone found
in possession of arms would be executed."
So the Nazi invaders set a deadline similar to that announced months ago
in Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in Norway, in Romania, in Yugo-Slavia, in
Greece.
How often have we read the familiar dispatches "Gestapo agents accompanied
by Nazi troopers swooped down on shops and homes and confiscated all
privately-owned firearms!"
What an aid and comfort to the invaders and to their Fifth Column cohorts
have been the convenient registration lists of privately owned
firearms--lists readily available for the copying or stealing at the Town
Hall in most European cities.
What a constant worry and danger to the Hun and his Quislings have been
the privately owned firearms in the homes of those few citizens who have
"neglected" to register their guns!16
During the war years the Rifleman regularly included pleas for American
sportsmen to "send a gun to defend a British home. British civilians, faced
with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their
homes." Indeed, the New York Times carried the same solicitations. After two
decades of gun control, British citizens now desperately needed rifles and
pistols in their homes, and they received the gifts with great appreciation.
Organized into the Home Guard, armed citizens were now ready to resist the
expected Nazi onslaught.
...
Timely review of history -- good read
Nazi Gun Control
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall
by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to
the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So
let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will
bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout
the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points
must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler
...excerpt...
Armed citizens were hurting the Nazis, who took the sternest measures. The
Nazis imposed the death penalty on a Pole or Jew: "If he is in unlawful
possession of firearms, . . . or if he has credible information that a Pole
or a Jew is in unlawful possession of such objects, and fails to notify the
authorities forthwith."
Given the above facts, it is not difficult to understand why the National
Rifle Association opposed gun registration at the time and still does. The
American Riflemen for February 1942 reported:
From Berlin on January 6th the German official radio broadcast--"The
German military commander for Belgium and Northern France announced
yesterday that the population would be given a last opportunity to surrender
firearms without penalty up to January 20th and after that date anyone found
in possession of arms would be executed."
So the Nazi invaders set a deadline similar to that announced months ago
in Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in Norway, in Romania, in Yugo-Slavia, in
Greece.
How often have we read the familiar dispatches "Gestapo agents accompanied
by Nazi troopers swooped down on shops and homes and confiscated all
privately-owned firearms!"
What an aid and comfort to the invaders and to their Fifth Column cohorts
have been the convenient registration lists of privately owned
firearms--lists readily available for the copying or stealing at the Town
Hall in most European cities.
What a constant worry and danger to the Hun and his Quislings have been
the privately owned firearms in the homes of those few citizens who have
"neglected" to register their guns!16
During the war years the Rifleman regularly included pleas for American
sportsmen to "send a gun to defend a British home. British civilians, faced
with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their
homes." Indeed, the New York Times carried the same solicitations. After two
decades of gun control, British citizens now desperately needed rifles and
pistols in their homes, and they received the gifts with great appreciation.
Organized into the Home Guard, armed citizens were now ready to resist the
expected Nazi onslaught.
...
Timely review of history -- good read