Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Gun Control in the Third Reich is a non-fiction book that describes the gun control policies used in Germany from the 1918 Weimar Republic, through the Third Reich in 1938. The book focuses on actions by the Nazi party against what they perceived to be enemies of the state and against the Jewish populations living in Germany at the time. The book is based on documents from the German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time.The book is written by Stephen P. Halbrook, a lawyer who has argued and won three cases before the US Supreme Court and is well known for his involvement in Second Amendment and gun control litigation.In an interview in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Halbrook said that he decided to research the topic because "Nobody has ever researched it. I first heard about it when I was an undergraduate in college in 1968, and there were these gun registration bills proposed in Congress. [...] The proponents of the bill challenged that and said they actually had commissioned a Library of Congress study saying there was no use of gun registration lists by the Nazis, either in Germany or in occupied countries, which was blatantly stupid. When (the Nazis) took power in 1933, they immediately used the (gun registration) records to disarm political enemies." In a November 2013 review of the book in The New Republic, senior editor Alec MacGillis said Halbrook told him that he wanted the book to be seen as a scholarly work. As for analogies between Nazi gun laws and today's gun control debates, Halbrook said: "The Nazis thought it was really important to disarm political enemies and Jews, but as far as contemporary comparisons, I’m very aware of how loosely people use these comparisons, and it does a disservice to the victims of the Holocaust.". }
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- Gun_Control_in_the_Third_Reich_(book) abstract "Gun Control in the Third Reich is a non-fiction book that describes the gun control policies used in Germany from the 1918 Weimar Republic, through the Third Reich in 1938. The book focuses on actions by the Nazi party against what they perceived to be enemies of the state and against the Jewish populations living in Germany at the time. The book is based on documents from the German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time.The book is written by Stephen P. Halbrook, a lawyer who has argued and won three cases before the US Supreme Court and is well known for his involvement in Second Amendment and gun control litigation.In an interview in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Halbrook said that he decided to research the topic because "Nobody has ever researched it. I first heard about it when I was an undergraduate in college in 1968, and there were these gun registration bills proposed in Congress. [...] The proponents of the bill challenged that and said they actually had commissioned a Library of Congress study saying there was no use of gun registration lists by the Nazis, either in Germany or in occupied countries, which was blatantly stupid. When (the Nazis) took power in 1933, they immediately used the (gun registration) records to disarm political enemies." In a November 2013 review of the book in The New Republic, senior editor Alec MacGillis said Halbrook told him that he wanted the book to be seen as a scholarly work. As for analogies between Nazi gun laws and today's gun control debates, Halbrook said: "The Nazis thought it was really important to disarm political enemies and Jews, but as far as contemporary comparisons, I’m very aware of how loosely people use these comparisons, and it does a disservice to the victims of the Holocaust."".