“Saxony’s Interior Ministry wants to revoke hunting licenses of AfD [Alternative for Germany] supporters,” Berliner Zeitung reported Sunday. “Anyone in Saxony who is an AfD member or attends party events risks losing their firearms license. A new decree now reverses the burden of proof.”
“Saxony’s Interior Ministry confirmed the existence of the measure, issued last July, but declined to publish it, describing it as an ‘internal document,’” RT explained, noting the reason was the AfD Party has been classified as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization due to its “anti-immigration platform and oppos[ition to] sanctions on Russia and support for Ukraine.” A challenge to that designation was rejected on appeal, showing the establishment fears a rapidly growing populist movement that reflects voter dissatisfaction with current government policies.
The requirement to “demonstrate reliability” and burden of proof is on AfD members “to show clear distancing from the party’s positions,” the report explains, further noting, “simply having no criminal record is insufficient.”
That such prior restraints can be codified into “law” is made inevitable by German weapons laws, among the strictest in Europe, which do not recognize a right to keep and bear arms, but instead read like a wish list for U.S. gun prohibitionists to template off of.
Disarming anyone disfavored by the state is one of the oldest power guarantors devised by governments, and this happening in Germany recalls another set of laws imposed within the lifetimes of people still living. From the Nazi Weapons Law of November 11, 1938, Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons:
“Jews (§ 5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt 1, p. 1332) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.”
That AfD, characterized by its critics as Nazis and neo-Nazis, is now being discriminated against with a virtual clone of Nazi Weapons Law, is a valid point to make, and one the political establishment and its media propagandists will, naturally, not admit to. And that’s reflected by Democrats increasingly employing Antifa-type slurs and smearing Republicans in general, and MAGA supporters in particular, as “Nazis” and “fascists.”
What’s being buried in those lies are two inconvenient truths.
The late UK Liberal Party supporter George Watson definitively debunked the former in his landmark Hitler and the Socialist Dream, documenting:
“It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too.”
And The Misinformation Antidote does the same with Benito Mussolini:
“Do not imagine that by tearing up my membership card in the Socialist Party you can forbid my socialist faith or prevent me from continuing to work for the cause of socialism and the revolution”
As the Founders’ Republic approaches its midterm elections and Semiquincentennial, it’s important to note the Framers rejected European tyranny and brought forth instead a form of government centered on the individual that included what the collectivists deceptively promise but never deliver: the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever devised. That, of course, was the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
As it stands now, there appears to be a good chance unthinking and uninformed heirs of liberty, that is, useful idiots, stand ready to demand a new and dangerous era of socialist collectivism through a “tyranny of the majority.” Who thinks for a minute a Democrat supermajority — with the unchallengeable ability to pass whatever gun edicts they want and have them upheld by a packed Supreme Court — won’t make disarming political opposition, that is, “extremists,” a priority?
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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
