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So, /u/useless_aether you firstly claim, Hitler alone, when he obtained power took away all the guns. That's a lie, no going around that. That never occurred. Hitler eliminated and ameliorated gun control laws imposed in Weimar Germany for Germans. Later on, it was said registration was imposed on suspected Bolsheviks and communists, mostly Jews for paranoia of a revolution, in which case they were almost successful some 20 years ago in Germany.

Furthermore, gun registration on long guns and handguns was legislated in 1928, before Hitler came to power.

In the law, which revoked the past gun-control laws, guns were exempted from the requirement for a purchase permit; the legal age for gun ownership was lowered from 20 to 18 years; the period of validity of a permit to carry weapons was extended from one to three years; and provisions restricting the amount of ammunition or the number of firearms an individual could own were dropped).

Hitler's government may be criticized for leaving certain restrictions and licensing requirements in the law, but the National Socialists had no intention of preventing law-abiding Germans from keeping or bearing arms.

Again, the firearm s law enacted by Hitler's government enhanced the rights of Germans to keep and bear arms; no new restrictions were added, and many pre-existing restrictions were relaxed or eliminated.

At the end of the Second World War, American GIs in the occupying force were astounded to discover how many German civilians owned private firearms. Tens of thousands of pistols looted from German homes by GIs were brought back to the United States after the war.

In 1945 General Eisenhower ordered all privately owned firearms in the American occupation zone of Germany confiscated, and Germans were required to hand in their shotguns and rifles as well as any handguns which had not already been stolen.

In the Soviet occupation zone German civilians were summarily shot if they were found in possession of even a single cartridge.

Jews, it should be noted, were not Germans, even if they had been born in Germany.

The National Socialists defined citizenship in ethnic terms, and under Hitler Jews were not accorded full rights of citizenship. National Socialist legislation progressively excluded Jews from key professions:

• teaching;

• the media;

• the practice of law, etc.

The aim was not only to free ethnic German life from what they called oppressive Jewish influence, but to persuade Jews to emigrate. Which created the Israel we observe today.

The German Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, specifically excluded Jews from manufacturing or dealing in firearms or munitions, but it did not exclude them from owning or bearing personal firearms. The exclusion of Jews from the firearms business rankled them as much as any other exclusion, and in their typically ethnocentric fashion they have misrepresented the law involved as an anti-gun law in an effort to cast their enemies in a bad light.

So, it was not when Hitler obtained power and it was much later on that he imposed restrictive measures concerning firearms when it came to Jews. And even then there was not an outright ban and confiscation.

It should be noted in passing that the restrictions placed on Jews by the National Socialists had the intended effect: between 1933 and 1939 two-thirds of the Jews residing in Germany emigrated, reducing the Jewish population of the country from 600,000 when Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 to 200,000 at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

The tendency of Germany's new rulers after the First World War was much the same as it is for the faux liberals in America today: they promoted cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and egalitarianism.

By 1923 economic conditions in Germany had become catastrophic, and there was much public unrest. The communists had made major inroads into the labor movement and were a growing threat to the country.

Hitler had indeed gone into politics, and his National Socialists battled the communists in the streets of Germany's cities and gradually came to be seen by many Germans in the working class and those who were farmers and quite poor and the middle class as the only force which could save Germany from a communist takeover and total ruin.

Hitler's National Socialists continued to win recruits and gain strength during the 1920s. The communists, with aid from the Soviet Union, also continued to grow. The political situation became increasingly unstable as the government lost popular support.

The government's response was to substantially tighten up restrictions on the rights of German citizens to keep and bear arms. The Law on Firearms and Ammunition of April 12, 1928, was the most substantial effort in this regard. This law was enacted by a left-center government hostile to the National Socialists (the government was headed by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and consisted of a coalition of Socialists, including many Jews, and Catholic Centrists). /u/Tom_Bombadil