Quite a useless questionGeli wrote: The author theorizes that firearms legislation in these years before WWII had an impact on Germans who may have formed an armed resistance movement.
- because resistance movements against Nazi Germany (and Stalinist Russia) were invariably unsuccessful as long as those totalitarian regimes could spare resources to fight them. They were able to defeat them all, frequently with shocking efficiency. And on their own territory those resources were always available. But on the other hand, both regimes were seriously information-starved about its citizens/opponents. At that time states had at their disposal very limited information about its citizens, and frequently even the information available was hard to analyze/evaluate, or even to access. So a relatively modern database/registry of gun owners would be very useful to the Gestapo. In similar manner the registries maintained by various political parties/organizations for their own internal purposes were used very effectively against them.
But still the totalitarian methods used by both regimes were more than sufficient to offset that informational disadvantage.
Exactly, and it wasn't laws but favors dispensation rules of a political patronage system, rewards granted to the faithful by the ruling regime.Geli wrote:On page 668, Harcourt quotes a National Alliance pamphlet that says that Hitler did not ban private gun ownership. I think they make a twisted point here. Hitler did not ban private gun ownership for everyone, just the Jews, Gypsies, and anyone the Nazis deemed “unreliable.” That is still banning private gun ownership, they were banning selectively. The German people were most certainly disarmed because of their religion, ethnicity or political beliefs. Not a good thing.
The earlier harsh laws weren't arbitrary or groundless. They were required by the Versailles Treaty, and later deemed necessary because of the collapse of public order brought the 1920s depression, the November Revolution, Spartacist/Ruhr Uprisings, Hamburg Uprising, Munich coup, the Greater Poland Uprising (despite the name it wasn't in Poland), Silesian Uprisings.
In comparison, the Nazi laws were truly arbitrary, groundless and unnecessary.