The Rude Pundit - Sorry, Gun Nuts: Hitler Actually Relaxed Most Gun Laws

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101. I refer you to The Magistrate's excellent summary.

While it does not support the position we were debating, it's a good summary of the history.

Interestingly enough, you haven't disputed the fact that the Nazis did indeed loosen gun control laws for "Aryans"--roughly 99% of the population

Well... I haven't disputed that it loosened gun control laws for the people Hitler wanted armed (in fact, it's part of my argument), but I do dispute this... because it isn't true. He didn't just remove access to firearms from the Jews... but from all of his opponents (or those he feared would become opponents). Those non-jew opponents were often simply called "communists", they really consisted of a number of political groups that the Nazis wanted to eliminate. The nazis would close off entire streets and go house to house conducting "criminal" raids - seizing firearms and arresting opponents - under the propaganda that the communists were about to turn terrorist

And they made up MUCH more than 1% of the population. The notion that the nazis made up such a huge proportion of the population is simply wrong.

and somehow no viable internal resistance arose from those armed masses.

I refer you to any decent historical account. That's simply wrong (as well as irrelevant to the debate).

When actual resistance did occur, it was either in the form of non-violent underground agitation

See comment above. You're way off base. And again, since it was not just the jews who he attempted to disarm but all opponents, it's irrelevant.