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==Nazi gun control hypothesis== ==Nazi gun control hypothesis==
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==Reactions to the hypothesis== ==Reactions to the hypothesis==

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This article is about a hypothesis regarding gun laws in Nazi Germany and other authoritarian regimes. For the history of German gun laws, see Gun legislation in Germany.

Nazi gun control is a historical revisionism hypothesis that Nazi Germany gun laws were a significant component of the Third Reich's plan, and that victims, especially Jews, might have effectively resisted repression if they had been armed.

Proponents of the Nazi gun control hypothesis are primarily U.S. gun-rights advocates, and discussion of Nazi gun laws in this context is almost exclusively aimed at U.S. gun laws and policies. When discussing the hypothesis, adherents sometimes cite other authoritarian regimes like Stalinist Russia and the Khmer Rouge.

Many consider Nazi gun control to be a fringe theory because it is not supported by history, Holocaust, or political science scholarship.

Nazi gun control hypothesis

The earliest references to the Nazi gun control hypothesis are in the U.S. Congressional hearings for what became the Gun Control Act of 1968. Proponents of the hypothesis posit a counterfactual history question: What if the Nazis had not disarmed the German Jews and other groups? They suggest such victims might have successfully resisted Nazi repression if they had been armed - or better armed.

Gun rights advocates such as gun law litigator Stephen Halbrook, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, and JFPO leader Aaron Zelman, have argued that Nazi Party policies and laws were an enabling factor in the Holocaust that prevented its victims from implementing an effective resistance. Their arguments refer to laws that disarmed "unreliable" persons, especially Jews, but relaxed restrictions for "ordinary" German citizens, and to the later confiscation of arms arms in countries it occupied. They allude to the Nazis in the context of the modern gun-control debate.

Reactions to the hypothesis

German gun law and Holocaust scholar, Michael Bryant, says gun-rights advocates Stephen Halbrook, Dave Kopel, Wayne LaPierre, Aaron Zelman, and others "use of history has selected factual inaccuracies, and their methodology can be questioned."

References

  1. Knox, Neal (2009). The Gun Rights War: Dispatches from the Front Lines 1966 - 2000. Phoenix, Arizona: MacFarlane. p. 286. ISBN 9780976863304.
  2. Winkler, Adam (2011). Gunfight:The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 339. ISBN 9780393077414.
  3. Halbrook, Stephen P. (2013). Gun Control in the Third Reich. Independent Institute. ISBN 978-1-59813-162-8.
  4. Harcourt 2004, p. 653-5. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHarcourt2004 (help)
  5. Halbrook 2000, p. 484. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHalbrook2000 (help)
  6. LaPierre 1994, p. 88-87,167-168. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLaPierre1994 (help)
  7. Harcourt 2004, p. 670,676. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHarcourt2004 (help)
  8. Halbrook 2000, p. 533,536. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHalbrook2000 (help)
  9. Bryant, Michael S. (May 4, 2012). "Holocaust Imagery and Gun Control". In Carter, Gregg Lee; James A. Beckman; Walter F. Carroll; David B. Kopel; Robert J. Spitzer; Harry L. Wilson (eds.). Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 411–415. ISBN 9780313386701. OCLC 833189121. Retrieved March 21, 2014.

Further reading

Works that endorse the Nazi gun law hypothesis

  • "Simkin, Jay; Zelman, Aaron (1992). Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. p. 139. OCLC 29535251."

Works that criticize the Nazi gun law hypothesis

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