	id AA14994; Mon, 14 Nov 94 19:20:58 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 81


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 81
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GUN CONTROL'S NAZI CONNECTION!
 
Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was 
lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation. We must 
call for a full investigation, and the repeal of GCA '68 -- NOW!!
 
By Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
 
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Are you tired of being told that gun control is a chronic pain 
that you have to accept because there's no cure? Do you -- a law- 
abiding person -- want to be free: to own whichever firearms you 
want to own, regardless of where in America you live; from 
waiting periods, gun bans, magazine capacity restrictions, etc.; 
to spend your time on the range or in the field, rather than 
fighting gun control?
 
Are you tired of giving hard-earned bucks to efforts that have at 
best only slowed the gun-grabbers' push toward firearms 
registration and confiscation? If you have had enough of death by 
a thousand cuts, you are ready to take action to wipe out gun 
control -- now.
 
Members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) 
consider gun control to be an aggressive cancer. JPFO has a cure, 
a way to destroy gun control. JPFO has hard evidence that shows 
that the Nazi Weapons Law (March 18, 1938) is the *source* of the 
U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA '68). Adolph Hitler signed the 
Nazi Weapons Law. The Gestapo (Nazi National Secret Police) 
enforced it. In *Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny* we present the 
official German text of the Nazi Weapons Law and a side-by-side 
translation into English. Even more deadly: a side-by-side, 
section-by-section comparison of the GCA '68 with the Nazi 
Weapons Law. If you have this in your hands, no one can tell you 
that you're imagining things.
 
The clincher: JPFO knows *who* implanted into American law 
cancerous ideas from the Nazi Weapons Law.
 
The likely culprit is a former senator, now deceased. We have 
documentary proof -- see below -- that he had the original text 
of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession 4 months before the 
bill that became GCA '68 was signed into law.
 
This former senator was a senior member of the U.S. team that 
helped to prosecute Nazi war criminals at Nurnberg, Germany, in 
1945-46. That is probably where he found out about the Nazi 
Weapons Law. He may have gotten a copy of it then, or at a later 
date. We cannot imagine why any U.S. lawmaker would own original 
texts of Nazi laws. To find out his name, read on.
 
With this hard evidence in your hands and in your head, you can 
destroy cancerous gun control. You can challenge anyone who backs 
gun control. You can show them the Nazi ideas, line by line.
 
The parallels between the Nazi law and GCA '68 will leap at you 
from the page. For example, law-abiding firearm owners in 
Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey must carry identification 
cards based on formats from the Nazi Weapons Law. Nazi-based laws 
have no place in America. Thousands of Americans died or were 
wounded in the war to wipe out the Nazis. They did not suffer and 
die so that Hitler's ideas could live on in America and kill more 
Americans. Gun control kills law-abiding Americans. Remember 
Killeen, Texas! The 23 who died in Luby's Cafeteria there died 
because they obeyed Nazi-inspired gun control laws. The law 
forced them, unarmed, to face an armed madman.
 
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    According to JPFO, evidence strongly suggests that the 
    late Senator Thomas J. Dodd personally implanted the 
    Nazi Weapons Law into U.S. legislation. What remains 
    unknown are his motives for doing so.
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To destroy gun control before more law-abiding Americans are 
murdered by criminals or madmen helped by gun control, you need 
to get hold of the evidence as presented in *Gun Control: Gateway 
to Tyranny*. You can then challenge the media, the most 
aggressive backers of gun control. Ask media personalities in 
your city or town why they back Nazi-based laws. You can demand 
repeal of GCA '68 and the thousands of state and local laws based 
on it. You can help to erase gun control, Hitler's last legacy.
 
GCA '68 puts your life at risk right now. You have a 
constitutional civil right to be armed in order to protect 
yourself, because under U.S. law the police have no duty to 
protect the average person:
 
"There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state 
against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if 
the state fails to protect its residents against such predators 
but it does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth 
Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the 
Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative 
liberties: it tells the state to let people alone; it does not 
require the federal government or the state to provide services, 
even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order" 
(Bowers v. DeVito, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 
686F.2d616 [1982]).
 
The Supreme Court last dealt with this issue in 1856; the 1982 
decision states the position in modern language. The laws of 
virtually every state parallel federal law (see JPFO Special 
Report "Dial 911 and Die!" covered in *Guns & Ammo*, July 1992). 
This has been so ever since the Constitution was adopted in 1791. 
As a result, the framers of the Second Amendment deliberately 
created an individual civil right to be armed. It is your only 
reliable defense against criminals. GCA '68 ties your hands and 
keeps you from carrying out your legal duty to ensure your own 
self-defense. GCA '68 thus undermines a pillar of U.S. law and 
helps criminals to kill law-abiding Americans. Hitler would be 
pleased.
 
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                             The Library of Congress
                             Washington, DC  July 12, 1968
    Hon. Thomas J. Dodd
    Chairman, Special Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile 
    Delinquency, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC
 
    Dear Senator Dodd: Your request of July 2, 1968, 
    addressed to the Legislative Reference Service, for the 
    translation of several German laws has been referred to 
    the Law Library for attention.
 
    In compliance with your request and with reference to 
    several telephone conversations between Miss Frank of 
    your Office and Mr. Fred Karpf, European Law Division, 
    we are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on 
    Weapons of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William 
    Solyom-Fekete of that Division, as well as the Xerox 
    copy of the original German text which you supplied.
 
    The translation of the decree implementing the Law on 
    Weapons of March 19, 1938, and the pertinent provisions 
    of the Federal Hunting Law of March 30, 1961, is in 
    preparation and will be sent to you as soon as 
    completed.
                             Sincerely yours,
                             Lewis C. Coffin,
                             Law Librarian
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Thus, GCA '68 marked a new approach to gun control. It replaced 
the Federal Firearms Act (June 30, 1938), which was based on the 
federal power to regulate interstate commerce. The 1938 law 
required firearms dealers to get a federal license (which then 
cost $1). Only dealers could ship firearms across state lines. 
Ordinary people could receive shipments from dealers.
 
In GCA '68 the government required that in almost all cases only 
dealers could send and receive firearms across state lines. This 
ended "mail order" sales of firearms by law-abiding persons who 
are not licensed dealers.
 
GCA '68 hits you even harder. Congress gave federal bureaucrats 
in Washington, D.C., the power to decide what kinds of firearms 
you can own.
 
The framers of GCA '68 borrowed an idea -- that certain firearms 
are "hunting weapons" -- from the Nazi Weapons Law (Section 21 
and Section 32 of the Regulations, page 61 and page 73, 
respectively, of *Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny*). The 
equivalent U.S. term, "sporting purpose," was used to classify 
firearms. But it was not defined anywhere in GCA '68. Thus, 
bureaucrats were empowered to ban whole classes of firearms. They 
have, in fact, done so.
 
We wanted to know the source of these new ideas. On reading "Dial 
911 and Die!" a JPFO member told us he had seen an article -- by 
Alan Stang in *Review of the News*, October 4, 1967 (pages 15-20) 
-- the author of which felt that the Nazi Weapons Law was the 
model for GCA '68. We found the article. But Stang did not 
reproduce the Nazi law, so we could not check his conclusions.
 
We started to hunt for the text of the Nazi Weapons Law. We 
eventually found it, in the law library of an Ivy League 
university.
 
Until 1943-44, the German government published its laws and 
regulations in the *Reichsgesetzblatt*, roughly the equivalent of 
the U.S. Federal Register. Carefully shelved by law librarians, 
the 1938 issues of this German government publication had 
gathered a lot of dust. In the *Reichsgesetzblatt* issue for the 
week of March 21, 1938, was the official text of the Weapons Law 
(March 18, 1938). It gave Hitler's Nazi party a stranglehold on 
the Germans, many of whom did not support the Nazis. We found 
that the Nazis did not invent gun control in Germany. The Nazis 
inherited gun control and then perfected it: they invented 
handgun control.
 
The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and 
Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a 
center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to 
curb "gang activity," violent street fights between Nazi party 
and Communist party thugs. All firearms owners and their firearms 
had to be registered. Sound familiar? Gun control did not save 
democracy in Germany. It helped to make sure that the toughest 
criminals, the Nazis, prevailed.
 
The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms 
when they *lawfully* took power in March 1933. The Nazis used 
these inherited registration lists to seize privately held 
firearms from persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly 
who owned which firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual 
ownership permits or decline to renew them.
 
In 1938, five years after taking power, the Nazis enhanced the 
1928 law. The Nazi Weapons Law introduced handgun control. 
Firearms ownership was restricted to Nazi party members and other 
"reliable" people.
 
The 1938 Nazi law barred Jews from businesses involving firearms. 
On November 10, 1938 -- one day after the Nazi party terror 
squads (the SS) savaged thousands of Jews, synagogues, and Jewish 
businesses throughout Germany -- new regulations under the 
Weapons Law specifically barred Jews from owning any weapons, 
even clubs or knives.
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
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