	id AA02221; Tue, 15 Nov 94 12:09:55 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 82


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 82
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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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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[...continued...]
 
Given the parallels between the Nazi Weapons Law and the GCA '68 
[Gun Control Act, 1968], we concluded that the framers of the GCA 
'68 -- lacking any basis in American law to sharply cut back the 
civil rights of law-abiding Americans -- drew on the Nazi Weapons 
Law of 1938.
 
Finding the Nazi Weapons Law whetted our appetite. We wanted to 
know who implanted this Nazi cancer in America. We began by 
probing the backgrounds of lawmakers who championed gun control. 
We focused on those whose bills became part of GCA '68. GCA '68 
as enacted closely tracks proposals dating to August 1963. We 
felt that if the culprit were a lawmaker -- or a congressional 
staffer -- he or she would know Germany, German law and possibly 
even speak German. He or she probably would have spent time in 
Germany on business or during military service. Alternatively, if 
the culprit were not a member of Congress or a staffer, there 
would be testimony at the hearings to that effect.
 
Most potential suspects were quickly eliminated: they had no 
apparent ties to Germany. But one lawmaker caught our attention.
 
An old *Who's Who* entry showed he had been a senior member of 
the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nurnberg in 
1945-46. Thus, he had lived in Germany just after the Nazi 
period. His official duties required him to look at Nazi records, 
including Nazi laws. In 1963 he led the effort to greatly expand 
the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.
 
We then got a break. We told a legal scholar of our findings. He 
was intrigued. He sent us an extract from the record of hearings 
held a few months prior to the enactment of the GCA '68. At the 
end of June 1968, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to 
Investigate Juvenile Delinquency -- chaired by Thomas J. Dodd (D- 
CT) -- held hearings on bills: (1) "To Require the Registration 
of Firearms" (S.3604), (2) "To Disarm Lawless Persons" (S.3634) 
and (3) "To Provide for the Establishment of a National Firearms 
Registry" (S.3637), among others.
 
U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-MI) testified at these Senate 
hearings on gun control. Senator Joseph D. Tydings (D-MD) chaired 
some of these hearings, in Dodd's absence.
 
Rep. Dingell expressed concern that if firearms registration were 
required, it might lead to confiscation of firearms, as had 
happened in Nazi Germany. Tydings angrily accused Rep. Dingell of 
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, where they had a secret police, and a complete 
takeover?"
 
    ======================>> INSET <<=======================
    Senators Strom Thurmond and Edward Kennedy are the only 
    members of the original (1968) Senate Judiciary 
    Committee who remain in the Senate, and on the committee
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Rep. Dingell backed away.
 
(Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile 
Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Congress, 2nd 
Session, June 26, 27 and 28 and July 8, 9 and 10, 1968, pp. 479- 
80, 505-6 cited as Subcommittee Hearings.)
 
Tydings later inserted into the hearing record various documents, 
"concerning the history of Nazism and gun confiscation."
 
Exhibit No. 62 (see reproduction [see inset, CN 2.81]) is 
fascinating. This letter -- dated July 12, 1968 -- is to 
Subcommittee Chairman Dodd from Lewis C. Coffin, Law Librarian at 
the Library of Congress. Coffin wrote:
 
"...we are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on Weapons 
of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William Solyom-Fekete of [the 
European Law Division] *as* *well* *as* *the* *Xerox* *of* *the* 
*original* *German* *text* *which* *you* *supplied*" 
(Subcommittee Hearings, p. 489, emphasis added).
 
This letter makes it public knowledge that at the end of June 
1968 -- 4 months before GCA '68 was enacted -- Senator Thomas J. 
Dodd, now deceased, personally owned a copy of the original 
German text of the Nazi Weapons Law.
 
Why did Dodd own the original German text of any Nazi law? Why 
did he make known that he owned it?
 
The Library of Congress then had (and still has) the 
*Reichsgesetzblatt* in its collection. The Library of Congress 
translator, Dr. Solyom-Fekete, could easily have used the Library 
of Congress' own copy.
 
Any member of Congress who wanted to read the Nazi Weapons Law 
need only have asked for it to be produced from the shelves of 
the Library of Congress and for it to be translated by Library of 
Congress experts. Why should any member of Congress ever have 
owned the original German text of the Nazi Weapons Law?
 
Without access to Tom Dodd's personal papers, archived under his 
heirs' control, we unfortunately cannot offer definite answers.
 
Dodd could have acquired the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law 
during his time at Nurnberg. But he had no need to do so.
 
Dodd did not personally handle the prosecution of Nazi Interior 
Minister Wilhelm Frick, who signed the Nazi Weapons Law. The case 
against Frick was presented by Robert M. W. Kempner, Assistant 
Trial Counsel for the United States (see *Trial of the Major War 
Criminals before the International Military Tribunal*, cited as 
TMWC, Vol. V, pp. 352-67, Nurnberg, Germany, 1947).
 
Nor should the Nazi Weapons Law otherwise have come to Dodd's 
attention. The Nazi Weapons Law was not used as evidence against 
Frick (see Kempner's speech, TMWC, Vol. V, pp. 352-67 and *Index 
of Laws, Decrees, Orders, Directives, and the Administration of 
Justice in Nazi Germany and Nazi-Dominated Countries*, TMWC, Vol. 
XXIII, pp. 430-33). The Nazi Weapons Law is not listed among 
documents submitted as evidence to the Tribunal by the American 
prosecutors (see Vol. XXIV, pp. 98-169).
 
The prosecutors at Nurnberg doubtless knew of the Nazi Weapons 
Law. They probably saw it in the *Reichsgesetzblatt*. On the same 
day that Nazi Interior Minister Frick signed the Weapons Law, 
March 18, 1938, he signed another law governing security measures 
in newly annexed Austria. This law concerning Austria appeared in 
the *Reichsgesetzblatt* -- directly in front of the Weapons Law 
-- and was introduced into evidence at Nurnberg 
(*Reichsgesetzblatt* 1938, I, p. 262; the Nazi Weapons Law was 
published in the same volume, p. 265; see TMWC, Vol. V, p. 358 
for reference to law concerning Austria).
 
Thus, the Nazi Weapons Law appeared to have no historical merit 
at Nurnberg and should not have attracted anyone's notice, 
certainly not to the extent of causing anyone to want to keep a 
copy of it as a separate document.
 
If Dodd got his copy of the original German text of the Nazi 
Weapons Law during his time at Nurnberg, it likely was part of a 
collection of documents, for example, issues of the 
*Reichsgesetzblatt*.
 
But if he acquired the original German text of the Nazi Weapons 
Law after his service at Nurnberg, he must have done so for a 
very specific reason. The Nazi Weapons Law plainly did not figure 
at Nurnberg.
 
We may safely conclude it had little, if any, interest for those 
interested in the history of the Nazis' rise to power. For 
example, the Nazi Weapons Law is not mentioned at all in William 
L. Shirer's very thorough study of Nazi Germany, *The Rise and 
Fall of the Third Reich* (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1950).
 
At the hearings held by Dodd's subcommittee at the end of June 
1968, Rep. Dingell had objected to the firearms registration 
provision then being discussed. Dodd may have offered his copy of 
the Nazi Weapons Law to show that the specific proposal did not 
resemble anything in the Nazi law.
 
He may not have realized that he was revealing a broader truth: 
that the whole fabric of GCA '68 was based on the Nazi Weapons 
Law, even if the specific registration proposal was not so based.
 
Alternatively, Dodd may not have cared whether or not anyone knew 
that he had the German text of the Nazi Weapons Law. He doubtless 
knew that months would pass before the hearing record was printed 
and so generally available for scrutiny. Thus, even if anyone 
then noticed the parallels between the two laws, the bill would 
already have become law.
 
Rep. Dingell does not appear to have pursued the matter: the 
firearms registration provision was not included in GCA '68. The 
Congress was stampeded on gun control by public enthusiasm. 
Martin Luther King had been murdered on April 4, 1968, and Robert 
F. Kennedy had been murdered on June 6, 1968.
 
We are not the first to have seen this hearing record. But we 
appear to be the first to have recognized its importance. This 
hearing record suggests strongly that the late Senator Thomas J. 
Dodd (D-CT) himself implanted the Nazi Weapons Law into American 
law, or, at very least, helped others to do so.
 
Now you know the ugly truth about the roots of GCA '68. But you 
need to see -- with your own eyes -- the hard evidence of the 
Nazi roots of gun control in America presented in *Gun Control: 
Gateway to Tyranny*.
 
If you want to destroy gun control, you can use this book to do 
it. You can demand the immediate repeal of the Nazi-inspired GCA 
'68 and all state laws based on it.
 
Of Senate Judiciary Committee members serving in 1968, only 
Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Strom Thurmond (D-SC) are still in 
the Senate. Both are still members of the Judiciary Committee. In 
light of the evidence presented above, will they now help to 
repeal GCA '68?
 
    ======================>> INSET <<=======================
    During hearings in 1968, Rep. John Dingell expressed his 
    concerns over proposed U.S. gun restrictions mimicking 
    those of Nazi Germany, He was chastised by then-Senator 
    Joseph Tydings, and Dingell backed down.
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Few lawmakers will try to defend the Nazis. And, if they do, you 
know what to do: vote them out at the next election, or sooner, 
if your state's laws provide for recall elections.
 
The Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, cleared the way for World 
War II and Nazi genocide against Jews, Gypsies and 7,000,000 
other people. If "Never Again" is to be a reality in America, the 
Nazi-based GCA '68 must be erased. Now.
 
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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
2872 S. Wentworth Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53207
 
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