It has been stated, over and over and over again, until it was beaten into the American consciousness, that the Nazis instituted strict gun control laws in order to maintain control over their population. Historians, scholars, and fact-checkers agree: this is historical revisionism at best. Germany prior at had some forms of gun control, but almost all of these were lifted under Nazi Germany. It turns out that facism is much easier to implement if the ultranationalists and racists who agree with your views are armed to the teeth. They can intimidate local governments and peaceful populations into going along...
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