MAJOR 20TH CENTURY GENOCIDES: The cost of "Gun Control" |
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Perpetrator Government | Date | Target | # Murdered (Estimated) | Permit or Registration Required | Date of "Gun Control" Law |
Source Document |
Ottoman Turkey | 1915-1917 | Armenians | 1-1.5 million | yes | 1866 1911 |
Art. 166, Penal Code |
Soviet Union* | 1929-1953 | Anti-Communists Anti-Stalinists |
20 million | yes | 1929 | Art. 182, Penal Code |
Nazi Germany** & Occupied Europe |
1933-1945 | Jews, Gypsies, Gays & Lesbians, People with chronic illnesses, Anti-Nazis | 13 million | yes | 1928
1938 |
Law on Firearms & Ammunition, April 12
Weapons Law, March 18 |
China* | 1949-1952
1957-1960 1966-1976 |
Anti-Communists
Rural Populations Pro-Reformers |
20 million | yes | 1935
1957 |
Arts. 186-7, Penal Code
Art. 9, Security Law Oct. 22 |
Guatemala | 1960-1981 | Maya Indians | 100,000 | yes | 1871
1964 |
Decree 36, Nov. 25
Decree 283, Oct. 27 |
Uganda | 1971-1979 | Christians, Political Rivals | 300,000 | yes | 1955
1970 |
Firearms Ordinance
Firearms Act |
Cambodia | 1975-1979 | Educated Persons | 1 million | yes | 1956 | Arts. 322-8, Penal Code |
Rwanda | 1994 | Tutsi | 800,000 | yes | 1964 | Law of 21 November 1964 on the Control of Firearms |
* The law(s) mentioned are part of an older and/or
wider body of law on and regulation of private firearms ownership.
** For a complete translation of these laws, including regulations specifically banning Jews from owning any weapons and a side-by-side comparison of the Nazi Weapons Law with the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968, see "Gun Control": Gateway to Tyrrany , J.E. Simkin & A. Zelman, 1992; available from JPFO |