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THOMAS JEFFERSON
Many of us living today were not yet born during the reign of terror
of Adolph Hitler and his German Nazi party. Yet,
every one of us have been told about the horrors and inhuman crimes
perpetrated by the Nazis against select groups of people throughout all
of Europe. We refer to Hitler and the Nazis as a group
of criminals who took over a legitimate government and turned it into a
killing machine. We heave a sigh of relief and thank God that kind of
thing could never happen here in America.
Germany's Nazis were criminals .... mass murderers.
About 12,000,000 civilians were murdered by the Nazis, among
them thousands of women and children. Jews and Gypsies were targeted by
the Nazis for total extermination. Some died from gassing in
concentration camps. Some died from starvation in ghettos. Some were
lined up in front of open graves and shot.
In 1928, five years before the rise of Hitler,
Germany's freely elected government enacted a "Law on
Firearms and Ammunition." This law required anyone who
owned a firearm, or who wanted to own a firearm, to make
themselves known to the authorities. Anyone who wanted to purchase
a firearm had to get a "Firearms Acquisition Permit."
If you needed ammunition, you had to get an "Ammunition Acquisition Permit."
When you wanted to go hunting, you had to get an "Annual Hunting Permit."
Every firearm that changed hands professionally had to have a
serial number and the maker's or dealers name stamped into the
metal. "Proof of need" was made a condition
for issuance of all licenses, not just the carry permit. Mandatory
prison sentences were imposed on anyone who professionally sold or
transferred a firearm or ammunition without a license. Truncheons and
stabbing weapons were subject to the same licensing requirements as
firearms, in terms of their manufacture and sale.
As a result of the 1928 Law, all firearms and
firearms owners were registered. To take firearms from anyone
they
distrusted, the Nazis simply did not renew permits. Under the
law,
their privately created law, the Nazis could now easily
confiscate all
firearms and ammunition from any, or all, selected groups. The
gun law of 1928 had served the Nazis well. It made almost all
law abiding firearms owners known to the authorities.
The 1928 law on firearms and ammunition helped the Nazis to destroy
democracy in Germany, by disarming the law abiding majority,
whom
they feared.
By the end of 1931, a rising tide of violence, mainly between
Nazi and Communist street fighters, moved the authorities to
tighten restrictions. Under new regulations, the police could order
everyone's firearms and ammunition ... even items not
normally used as weapons ... to be put into
police custody,
"If the maintenance of public security and order require
it."
'1, Fourth Regulations of the President for the Protection
of the Economy and Finance, and on the
Defense of Civil Peace, December 8, 1931
of the Economy and Finance, and on the
Defense of Civil Peace, December 8, 1931
The Nazis came to power legally. They were voted into power. In
elections held on March 5, 1933, the Nazis fell short of
50 percent of the vote. Hitler, afraid the public might oust
him, didn't plan to hold more elections. On March 23, 1933,
parliament voted to give him emergency powers under the
Constitution. There were no more elections in Germany until after
World War II. The Nazis were far from being popular with the
German people. The Nazis knew that many Germans opposed them. The
Nazis used the 1928 Law on Firearms and Ammunition to
disarm their opponents and to prevent any armed resistance. The Nazis,
at most, were a minority of the German population, not the
majority. The Nazis operated within the Law. But in Germany,
as here, a small private elite group wrote and defined the Law. WHEN
YOU CREATE THE LAW, YOU CAN DEFINE THE LAW. IT CAN BE AS LEGAL TO
ABOLISH LAWS AS IT IS TO INSTITUTE THEM. Hitler not
only came to power legally, but instituted dictatorship legally.
On taking power in 1933, the Nazis did not immediately begin
killing Jews. In April 1933, the Nazis enacted a law that
kept Jews out of the civil service, universities, and most
professions. In September 1935, the Nuremberg Laws
were enacted: Jews lost their civil rights.
In November 1938, the Nazi SS troops were
unleashed against Germany's Jews. Jewish property was confiscated.
On March 18 1938, the Nazis enacted a new, tougher,
gun control law. The Nazi Weapons Law (Waffengesetz)
ensured that only Nazis and their friends could own or carry weapons,
especially handguns. Licenses to sell, own, or carry firearms were
required, except for exempted Nazi organizations and officials.
Private persons were not exempt, but a Nazi Party
Membership Card was proof of political reliability. The Nazi Weapons Law
stated that no Jew could be involved in any business involving
firearms. On November 11 1938, one day after the SS were
unleashed against the Jews, new regulations under the Nazi Weapons Law
barred Jews from owning any weapons.
Gun control in Nazi Germany was not difficult to enforce. Being
a police state, (operating under the police power,
not law) to get a "Firearm Acquisition License",
one had to prove one's identity ---- the national
identity card) --- and one's political loyalty
(nazi party membership card). With strong police state
controls over people, (loss of civil rights) gun control
was easily enforced. A disarmed population is helpless. Bureaucrats and
obedient civil servants "just doing their job",
helped the Nazis carry out their plans. Without the help of those good
people who were just doing what they were told, the Nazis could never
have murdered as many people as they did.
The Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938 is
the blueprint for "Gun Control" in America today.
America could not make Nazi style gun control work without the
documents that Nazi style gun control needs. THE
NAZI STYLE GUN CONTROL LAWS WERE ENACTED BY THE
FEDERAL CONGRESS AS THE U.S. GUN CONTROL ACT
OF 1968. Under this Act: every law abiding
firearm owner had to prove that he/she was law abiding;
firearms dealers had to record purchases and sales of firearms on
behalf of the federal government. Federal and/or
state bureaucrats (un-elected civil servants) got the new and
broad power to decide who, among law abiding persons, may own and/or
carry firearms and under what conditions what type of firearms may
lawfully be owned. The vague concept of "sporting purpose"
as a way of classifying firearms was introduced. Transactions in
ammunition had to be recorded (this is no longer so).
Ammunitions that were "legal" were subject to
control by bureaucrats.
The Nazi gun control law required nation wide identification
papers. Here in America the "social security number"
created by Executive Order under President Franklin Roosevelt,
is used as a national identifier. The Nazi gun law required a
"Firearm Owner Identity Card." In Illinois,
a person who wants to own a firearm has to get a "Firearm Owner
Identification Card" complete with photograph. This
takes 4 to 6 weeks. This "FOID" card is
the direct descendent of the Nazi "Firearm Acquisition Permit"
(Waffenerwerbschein), concealed carry permits are generally not
available. No special permit is needed to transport a firearm from home
to a target range if it is locked in the trunk of a car.
In Massachusetts, a "FOID" (Waffenerwerbscheine)
card is necessary to own a firearm. To transport a pistol,
even in a locked gun case in a locked trunk requires
a "carry permit," the direct descendant of
the Nazi "Firearm Carry Permit" (Waffenschein).
To get this permit, or a permit for general concealed carry,
three (3) letters of reference are required, as is a
safety course at applicant's cost, a test of
one's knowledge of firearm law, and a talk with the
chief of police. The chief of police may still
withhold the permit. If he agrees to issue the permit, the applicant is
then finger printed.
In New Jersey, an applicant must first get a "Firearm Purchaser
Identification Card" (Waffenerwerbschein), which
requires finger printing. There is a special document for would be
handgun owners, the "Permit to
Purchase a Handgun." It is valid for 90 days,
(extendable for 90 days for "good cause")
and only for one handgun. Copies of this permit must be sent to the
issuing authority (the local police) and the
state police; the seller keeps a copy and the purchaser keeps a
copy. Concealed carry permits (Waffenschein) are
only rarely issued and are valid for no more than 2 years. A "justifiable need"
must be shown, but the term is not defined. The local police chief
must approve it. His approval is reviewed by the Court in the applicants
county of residence.
For the Nazis, society was the end, individuals the means, and
its whole life consisted in using individuals as instruments for
its social ends. Individuals rights were only recognized in so
far as they were implied in the rights of the state. The state was
conceived as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or
groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the
state. The Nazi state was viewed as an embodied will to
power and government. The Nazi's ruled under Police Power. The
essential method of the police power is that of regulation,
restriction, or prohibition, but not that of taking for
public use. This power or means is used where the government does
not desire ownership of anything, but wishes rather to control the
conduct of individuals. Sometimes regulation is much easier when a
license is required. Some courts here in America have held that the
taking of a few dollars for licenses, the primary purpose not being
revenue, is an exercise of the police power. The courts have held
that where "regulation goes too far it will be recognized
as a taking." In operation, it may be defined as the power
of the state (government) to regulate the conduct of individuals to
the point of complete prohibition of certain acts of conduct or
even to the destruction of the things involved. This belief in the
police power is the theory that animates a number
of dictatorial and totalitarian regimes throughout the world
today.
The Nazi Doctrine rejected the whole idea of democracy
and representative government. Rules of morality do not apply to the
state or to its workers when serving the state (absolute immunity).
Fraud, treachery, torture, even murder, are right if committed in
the interest of the state (Waco, Texas). The people, incapable of
governing, must be led by an "elite," a group
or party that is able to seize and to hold power. Freedom of
speech, press, thought, and religion must not be permitted; they are
foolish democratic ideas, like elections and representative government.
The state is not simply a means to attain the welfare of men. Instead it
uses men to achieve its higher purpose, and that purpose is nothing less
than power, power and more power. To avoid war and seek peace is only
democratic weakness. War is the very life of the state in Nazi doctrine.
As strange as it may appear, Nazi ideas have been imported into the
United States, and have found secret as well as open and avowed
recruits among both ordinary American citizens and many
elected officials. One need only look to Washington D.C.,
as well as to elected public servants in the Union States,
where you can find many supporters of the Nazi Doctrine.
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