From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ NEAL KNOX REPORT JPFO PROVES ME WRONG By Neal Knox The 1968 Gun Control Act mirrors the Nazi gun laws of 1938. WASHINGTON, D.C. (May20) -- Last fall I reported to you about a new book from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership which charges that the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA) was a direct copy of the Nazi gun laws of 1938, except for the registration provisions and the flat prohibition against Jews being allowed to buy or possess guns. The authors of "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny", Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman (2872 Wentworth, Milwaukee. Wis. 53207; $19.95 + $2.95 S&H), had obtained and translated the German 1928 and 1938 laws, and laid them out side-by-side with GCA '68. The similarities are astounding. I was particularly struck by the sameness of the German provisions to parts of the original Dodd bills which were later changed or eliminated. For instance, the first Dodd bill -- like the German law - defined as antiques guns made before 1870 (the approximate era of non-cartridge guns). However, a reasonable person could argue that the methods used to regulate transfers of sales in both laws could easily be devised independently -- So I wrote last October: "Did the authors of the 1968 Act dig out a dusty, brittle copy of the Nazi law and translate it into Amendment 90 of S.1? Not likely." Well, it appears I was wrong, Senator Tom Dodd (D-Conn.), author of the 1968 Gun Control Act and its predecessor bills, did have a copy of the German law. According to a letter dated July 12, 1968 -- shortly after passage of the Omnibus Crime Act, which contained most of GCA '68, but four months before enactment of the full law -- the Library of Congress provided Senator Dodd a requested translation of the 1938 German Law on Weapons and returned "the Xerox copy of the original German text which you supplied." Where did Tom Dodd get the German law? When did he get it? Zelman and Simkin, in an article in the May 1993 "Guns & Ammo" magazine, make the reasonable guess that Dodd acquired a copy during 1946 when he was a senior member of the U.S. prosecution team during the Nurnberg Trials of Nazi war criminals. Why did he want it translated in June, 1968, when he had long been pushing virtually the same law -- indicating that he had a translation years before? Dodd's papers might answer that perplexing question, but they are at the Connecticut State Library under limited access controlled by his son, Chris Dodd, the present Senator from Connecticut. The hearings of June and July 1968 concerned not just the Gun Control Act but two gun registration bills -- both of which Dodd opposed. I don't know whether Dodd's opposition came from true conviction or because he had continuously denied that the "Dodd Bill" was a "first step" toward gun registration, and was made a liar when President Johnson and Senator Joe Tydings (D-Md.) tried to push through gun registration immediately after passage of the Omnibus Crime Act. But a person close to Dodd -- who must remain nameless even today -- told me at the time that Dodd was very upset by the registration bills and had told him: "That's a Nazi bill." Dodd's unusual comment, which had banged around my brain for 25 years, took on a new meaning when I learned that Simkin had found evidence that Dodd possessed a copy of the Nazi Weapons Law, and wasn't being rhetorical, but was stating a fact. Represenative John Dingell testified during the hearings that the Nazis had used registration laws to disarm "unreliable" Germans and citizens of invaded countries. He was upbraided by Tydings -- who was chairing Dodd's committee - for 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...?" Tydings then said he was inserting items in the hearings record concerning the German gun laws and confiscations. Many months later, after registration had failed and GCA '68 had passed, the hearing record was published. No one noticed that Tydings' Exhibit 62, the translation of the Nazi gun laws, showed that he and President Johnson were, indeed, trying to emulate the Nazi registration laws -- and that with the Omnibus Crime Act and Gun Control Act Dodd had copied the rest. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan site by the archive maintainer. All files are ZIP archives for fast download. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)