MAJOR 20TH CENTURY GENOCIDES:
The cost of "Gun Control"
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


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