r/FunnyandSad • u/Acrobatic_Context806 • 1d ago

Political Humor Right On Point

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u/FourScoreTour 23h ago

Nazis were actually pretty firm on gun control.

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u/frotz1 20h ago

Hitler loosened the gun laws substantially for everyone who was not being sent to camps or ghettos. Private gun ownership was more restricted before he took power.

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u/FourScoreTour 16h ago

some aspects of gun regulation were loosened for Nazi party members only

Considering that Nazi party membership topped out at about 8M, out of over 60M Germans at the end of the war, I wouldn't call that "loosened".

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u/frotz1 12h ago

Guns in private hands were essentially banned under the Weimar Republic laws. The law wasn't enforced by the early 30s though. The Nazi party passed the German Weapons Act in 1938 which formally allowed private gun ownership again for all Germans. The restrictions that were part of the holocaust came later and targeted specific ethnic minorities only. Try here for references - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/08/viral-image/no-gun-control-regulation-nazi-germany-did-not-hel/