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Revision as of 23:06, 21 March 2014 by Lightbreather (talk | contribs) (creating Nazi gun control stub; "Authoritarian gun control" and similar searches will redirect here)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) This article is about hypotheses and theories 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 blanket term for at least two controversial notions. One use is for the 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. Another use is as part of a conspiracy theory that national gun control laws and global disarmament are part of a secret plot by a New World Order to seize global power.
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.
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