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Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
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Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
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Overview

Based on newly discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so—it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Dancing on a Volcano: The Weimar Republic

1. Insurrection and Repression
2. The 1928 Law on Firearms
3. Keeping Firearm Registrations Out of the Wrong Hands?
Part II. 1933: Enter the Führer
4. The Nazi Seizure of Power
5. Disarming the Politically Unreliable: The Case of Brandenburg
6. Defining Enemies of the State
Part III. Gleichschaltung: Forcing into Line
7. From the Night of the Long Knives to the Nürnberg Laws
8. The Gestapo
9. Hitler’s Gun Control Act
Part IV. Reichskristallnacht: Night of the Broken Glass
10. October Prelude: Arresting Jewish Firearm Owners
11. Goebbels Orchestrates a Pogrom
12. Jewish Victims Speak
Conclusion: Whither the German Resistance, Whither the Holocaust?
Bibliography

Credits for Historical Illustrations
Index

About the Author

Cover design: Denise Tsui

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  • The perennial gun control debate in America for the past half-century did not begin here. Many of the same arguments for and against the freedom to own firearms were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany's Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration and prohibition. Those measures restricted law-abiding persons who complied with the law, but had no effect on the ongoing political violence between the Communists and the emerging Nazis. There would be unintended consequences.
  • Weimar Germany’s gun registration laws set the stage for the tragic deaths of people like Alfred Flatow, a German Jew who won first place in gymnastics at the 1896 Olympics. In 1932, Flatow registered three handguns as required by a decree of the Weimar Republic. After Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, the registration records were used to identify, disarm, and attack “enemies of the state,” a euphemism for political opponents and Jews. By 1938, the Nazis had deprived Jews of the rights of citizenship and were ratcheting up measures to expropriate their assets. Police used the registration records to locate and arrest Jewish gun owners such as Flatow, who was turned over to the Gestapo and, like millions of others, was later murdered in the Holocaust.
  • Countless books about the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail to mention the firearms restrictions that rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so—it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups. Newly discovered documents reveal that even before the Nazis seized power in 1933, a future legal advisor to the Gestapo, Werner Best, proposed the execution of anyone who refused to surrender their firearms. Also, weeks before the 1938 pogrom known as the Night of Broken Glass, even Jews who surrendered their registered firearms were taken into custody by the Gestapo—a little-known fact that suggests that a major action against the Jews was already planned.
  • The history of Germany, 1918–1938, is a telling case study in the timeless gun control debate that provides an important historical perspective to recurrent questions: Should the people have a right to keep and bear arms? Should firearms be restricted to the police, military, and favored groups designated by the government? Is it possible that restrictions may go horribly wrong? What lessons does history teach?

Synopsis

A year before Adolph Hitler took power in 1933, the German Interior Minister directed that gun registration records be made secure to keep them from falling “into the hands of radical elements.” His efforts proved futile: the records fell into the hands of the Nazi government, which used them to disarm their political enemies and the Jews. By 1938, the Nazis had deprived Jews of the rights of citizenship and were ratcheting up measures to expropriate their assets.

The horrific consequences have names etched in our consciousness: the Night of Broken Glass and the Holocaust. Countless books have been written about Hitler’s dictatorship yet have failed to mention the disarming of Jews and “enemies of the state.” Attorney and author Stephen P. Halbrook fills this yawning gap with his original and eye-opening work, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State.”

Based on newly discovered documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the hidden history—in a readable but well documented, scholarly manner—of how the Third Reich made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate its power.

The book is divided into four units, each with three chapters, representing distinct historical periods. It spans the two decades from the defeat of Germany in World War I in 1918 through the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938. A concluding chapter presents a panorama of events during World War II.

Dancing on a Volcano: The Weimar Republic

Part I begins by describing the chaos in the aftermath of World War I, a time when the struggling Weimar Republic repressed Communist insurgencies as well as attempted rightist coups, such as Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch. The suppression could be brutal: those caught with arms, including Red Cross nurses in one instance, were executed on the spot. The Versailles Treaty and repressive measures resulted in confiscations of firearms from law-abiding persons, while extremist groups secreted arms caches and fought in the streets.

In 1928, after public debate involving arguments heard even today, the liberal Weimar Republic adopted Germany’s first comprehensive gun control law. The law required licenses for the acquisition and carrying of firearms, giving the authorities discretion to deny licenses based on purported lack of need or disqualification based on a subjective determination of dangerousness. The law failed to end the extremist violence.

In secret documents that were discovered by the authorities, future Gestapo legal adviser Werner Best proposed a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and those refusing to surrender their guns would be executed. Partly in reaction to the discovery of such extremist plans, the Weimar era ended with a decree that could later facilitate Best’s plan—a requirement to register all firearms and authorization to police to confiscate them. The Interior Minister warned that the registration records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group. Yet they could have anticipated by then that the Nazis, the leading extremist group, could take power.

1933: Enter the Führer

Part II describes how the Nazis seized and consolidated power. In 1933 Hitler was named Chancellor, the Reichstag was set ablaze, emergency powers were granted to suspend constitutional rights, and Hitler’s police initiated mass searches and seizures for subversive printed matter and firearms. Social Democrats and other political opponents in this onslaught were invariably described as “Communists.” Gun licenses held by Jews and the politically unreliable were cancelled. Police raids to search for and confiscate firearms and publications swept Germany, from passengers’ baggage at railway stations to offices of political parties and to entire Jewish communities.

A case study of Brandenburg, the German state that surrounds Berlin, shows how police used lists of licensed gun owners, assessed whether they were “politically reliable” to Nazism, and if they were not, cancelled their licenses and confiscated their firearms. Social Democrats were automatically disqualified. This was yet another step to nip in the bud resistance to National Socialism.

National Socialist power was consolidated in part by defining and disarming “the politically unreliable” and the “enemies of the state.” Legal theories were debated as to how to secure the New Order. The result was that persons in such categories could be disarmed, deprived of civil rights, and thrown into concentration camps.

Gleichschaltung: Forcing into Line

Part III focuses on the five years of repression that followed. During this time Nazi leaders leisurely conferred on amendments to the Weimar firearms law, which could be revised as society was cleansed by National Socialism. The Night of the Long Knives verified that Hitler could murder any opponent. Undesirables were placed in camps where labor made them “free,” and the Nürnberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship. The first major “Aryanization” of a Jewish business, seen in Europe as an attack on private enterprise, was the expropriation of a major firearm manufacturer owned by Jews.

By now Germany still had “laws” to which citizens were subject, but also Gestapo prerogative which courts could not review. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs, arresting their leaders who failed to surrender their offices to Nazis. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to police authorities throughout Germany forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews.

In 1938, Hitler signed a new firearm law which exempted Nazi Party members from some restrictions. It ostensibly made long guns easier to acquire, but the “reform” was hollow in that firearm ownership was denied to the perennial “enemies of the state,” many of whom had been removed from society. For the first time, it prohibited Jews from the firearms industry and banned ordinary .22 hollow point ammunition. The annexation of Austria had occurred just in time to apply the law there.

Reichskristallnacht: Night of the Broken Glass

Part IV begins with the prelude to the Night of Broken Glass. Weeks before the November 1938 pogrom, police ordered Jews to surrender their firearms and other weapons. Jews who turned in their registered arms at police stations were still turned over to the Gestapo. The registration records revealed those who failed to comply. This represents substantial evidence, albeit ignored by historians, that a major action against the Jewish population was already planned, as disarming them would minimize the risk of resistance. An incident was needed to unleash the pogrom.

With the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew—the incident they were waiting for—Hitler approved and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels orchestrated the Night of the Broken Glass. This massive search and seizure operation, allegedly for weapons, entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues. SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed twenty years in a concentration camp for possession of a firearm by a Jew.

Diaries and other eyewitness accounts record how the Jewish victims themselves, including gun owners as well as those not remotely connected to gun ownership, described the onslaught. Rusty revolvers and bayonets from the Great War were confiscated from Jewish veterans who had served with distinction. Valuables were stolen in house searches allegedly for guns. These accounts by the victims, many of them women and children, bring to life the horror of having one’s house ransacked by Nazis and countless husbands and fathers arrested and thrown into concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass has rightly been described as the prelude to the Holocaust.

Whither the German Resistance? Whither the Holocaust?

The book’s concluding chapter presents a potpourri of events during World War II, the second half of the “thousand year Reich,” to explore the effects of the disarming policies of the previous two decades. Jews about to be deported to death camps were searched one last time for weapons. Why was there no armed partisan movement in Germany, and why was resistance limited to small groups like the White Rose students and the military conspirators who were unsuccessful in killing Hitler? In the occupied countries, the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, but there were instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Despite the significance of the perceived necessity by the Nazis ruthlessly to disarm political enemies and Jews, historians have failed to address this critical subject. Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the first analysis of the use of gun control laws and policies to pave the way for and consolidate the Hitler regime, rendering Jews and all other “enemies of the state” defenseless.

Praise

“Stephen Halbrook’s meticulous research in Gun Control in the Third Reich sheds new and revealing light on the consolidation of Nazi power and the prosecution of the Holocaust. Everyone, including advocates of gun controls, should find this pioneering and thought-provoking book essential reading.”
James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, New York University; author, Can Gun Control Work?

Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook’s excellent history of gun control in Germany, shows that, motives notwithstanding, removing weapons from the general population always disarms society vis a vis its worst elements. In Germany the authorities tried to deal with the Nazi and Communist mobs that were shaking society's foundations indirectly, by disarming ordinary people. But their cowardice ended up delivering a helpless population to the Nazis’ tender mercies. Halbrook's richly documented history leads Americans to ask why those among us who decry violence in our society choose to try tightening the vise on ordinary citizens’ capacity to defend themselves rather than to constrain the sectors of society most responsible for the violence.”
Angelo M. Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University; author, Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury), The Character of Nations, and Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History

Gun Control in the Third Reich is a provocative book on what is surely the ‘worst case scenario’ in the history of gun control and an illuminating meditation on the role that the disarming of the Jews played in the Holocaust.”
Jonathan Kirsch, author, The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan

“What good would private arms do against a totalitarian state? That won’t remain an unanswerable rhetorical challenge for readers of Stephen Halbrook’s calm, detailed scholarly book, Gun Control in the Third Reich. As Halbrook shows, Nazi leaders went to great lengths to extend the gun control laws they inherited from the Weimar Republic. They were obsessed with disarming Jews and other designated public enemies. Potential resistance was not only physically disabled. It was morally and psychologically disarmed. Evil then became irresistible in Germany, not because it was fueled by fanaticism but because shielded by fatalism.”
Jeremy A. Rabkin,
 Professor of Law,
 George Mason University School of Law

“[L]egal scholar Halbrook has written an impressive history of the Nazi government’s campaign to penalize gun ownership with imprisonment and death, leaving political opponents and future victim groups without then means of defense. Halbrook admirably supports his densely woven book with legal, archival, and biographical information to describe how the Nazis exploited the vagaries of differing regulations; unrelenting street violence between political militias and veteran groups; the injustice of rampant anti-Semitism; and draconian punishments to disarm the population. The Weimar’s 1928 disarming of the public . . . unquestionably made it incrementally easier to subjugate and murder millions of unarmed Germans and other victims. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.”
Choice

“Even a defense with small arms against a tyrannical regime, if known, can galvanize public opinion which is the ultimate source of all political authority. That is why, as Halbrook authoritatively shows in Gun Control in the Third Reich, the Nazis—despite their massive military force—went out of their way to confiscate even small caliber weapons in Germany.”
Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Emory University

“’The devil is in the details’ as the British note. Stephen Halbrook's excellent and deeply researched book, Gun Control in the Third Reich, has revealed the anticipation of Nazi gun control techniques in Weimar attempts to control incipient civil war between Nazis and Communists. In a conservative country replete with WWI veterans, racked with unemployment and wrecked with ideological struggles among the extreme Left, the list of potential victims proliferated among whom unarmed Jews had top priority. They had been quickly disarmed by the Nazis using Weimar laws. Only armed peasants and urban refugees in the mountains and forests in the perimeters of the Reich could resist the Nazi juggernaut until saved by Allied armies. History does indeed provide important lessons for contemporary debates and Halbrook's important research should inform our contemporary debate on gun control.”
Steven B. Bowman, Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati; Miles Lerner Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; whose books include Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece, The Holocaust in Salonika, The Agony of Greek Jews 1940-1945, and The Straits of Hell: The Chronicle of a Salonikan Jew in the Nazi Extermination Camps Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee

“Attempts to draw parallels between our political debates and Nazi Germany are, as is often lamented, a dime a dozen in contemporary discourse. Rarely, however, do they run to more than 200 pages, plus bibliography. That distinction lies with a new book just published by the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Oakland: Stephen Halbrook’s Gun Control in the Third Reich. Oh no, you think. Oh yes, say the book’s marketers, who are not shy at all about framing the Nazi’s disarming of Jews and other political enemies as a giant, .950 caliber warning shot amid efforts in Washington and some states to pass new regulations on firearms. . . . I reached out to some of these academics to see if they were as worried about the parallels between Nazi Germany and contemporary gun control debates as these blurbs suggested. [Steven] Bowman, for one, most certainly is. . . . The book ‘shows what the government can do,’ Bowman said. ‘It all depends on the political winds. If you’ve got the wind behind you, you can pretty much do what you want.’”
The New Republic

“For Jews left trembling in their homes, powerless to defend against Nazi Stormtroopers, the right to possess a gun took on special meaning in the 1940’s. In Stephen Halbrook’s extraordinary book, Gun Control in the Third Reich, the consequence of disarming a population making them vulnerable to imprisonment and annihilation is told with frightening detail. It is a history with poignancy. With gun controllers in our midst today, who either do not understand the Second Amendment or choose to redefine it for their own ends, it would serve them well to read and digest the powerful arguments in this pathbreaking book.”
Herbert I. London, President, London Center for Policy Research; former President, Hudson Institute

"With Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook has written an important and disturbing book. It provides a timely reminder that self defense and the right to bear arms are fundamental human rights."
Robert J. Cottrol, Professor of Law, History, and Sociology and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, George Washington University; author, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere

“One need not agree with Stephen Halbrook’s opposition to almost all forms of firearms control in order to find Gun Control in the Third Reich, his book on regulation of firearms in post-World War I and Nazi Germany, both illuminating and challenging. The most truly serious arguments against significant regulation of firearms have always involved critiquing the proposition that a potentially oppressive state should have a monopoly over the means of violence, and Halbrook’s book very much contributes to that debate. Many no doubt would like to believe that Nazi Germany is sui generis, which, paradoxically, implies that there is not much to be learned from its specific history or policies with regard to our own dilemmas today. Others are less optimistic, and for them Halbrook's well-told narrative has implications for our contemporary debates.”
Sanford V. Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law; author, Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

“It couldn’t be clearer with what happened in Germany following World War I. Stephen Halbrook, a well-known advocate for gun rights, traces the bone-chilling path taken starting in the Weimar Republic until the beginning of World War II in his masterpiece Gun Control in the Third Reich. . . . Halbrook is careful making any parallels to gun registration in the U.S. and Nazi Germany. He merely shows what can happen, not what will happen. Nevertheless, his exposé shows that not only is gun registration useless to control gun violence, it actually encourages it since criminals have no use for laws. . . . So if you’re looking for a strong argument again gun restrictions, Gun Control in the Third Reich is a must-have for your library. It shows both the futility and the danger of gun registration, but also why an armed people is a people that stays alive.”
The Daily Caller

“In Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen P. Halbrook gives a decisive historical answer to a question which has generally been discussed without much evidence in the political discourse of recent years. Now there is no doubt: Halbrook shows that the Nazis relied on gun control to carry out its totalitarian program. Indeed, by means of painstaking historical research, he shows that the weapon confiscations and punishments of the Third Reich relied very much on the earlier registration measures of the democratic Weimar Republic. This pioneering book tells an essential story that is central to the history of the modern Leviathan state. Highly recommended!”
T. Hunt Tooley, Professor of History, Austin College; whose books include Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Battleground and Home Front in the First World War, and National Identity and Weimar Germany

“Discussions of Nazi gun control efforts are a staple of American debate, but until now there was little authoritative in-depth research to draw on. Stephen Halbrook's extensive research and clear explication in his book Gun Control in the Third Reich ensures that future discussion will be much better informed. A must-read for anyone interested in this subject.”
Glenn H. Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee

“Stephen P. Halbrook, an attorney and Research Fellow with the Independent Institute in California, has written a remarkably well-documented analysis of how Adolf Hitler and his Nazi henchmen in the government made private, ‘unauthorized’ gun ownership a capital crime, while using registration records to effectively turn ordinary Germans into instant criminals. Halbrook’s book took 15 years to research and write, and he relied on German archivists and translators to assist him in plowing through original records and files from 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s Germany. The result is Gun Control in the Third Reich, a fascinating, readable, informative and important book.”
The American Spectator

“In Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook has uncovered and thoroughly documented a long-overlooked aspect of Hitler's rise to Power and ultimate genocide of German Jews—the disarming of the citizenry made possible by gun registration and confiscation laws adopted during the Weimar Republic. The parallels to today’s gun control debates in the United States are bone-chilling, and ought to raise a red flag call to action for all freedom-loving Americans."
John C. Eastman, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, Chapman University; Founding Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

“Not only is Halbrook now one of the most respected of gun-rights scholars in America, but he has also successfully argued Second Amendment cases for the U.S. Supreme Court. In Gun Control in the Third Reich Halbrook takes us overseas to see how the Nazis used gun-restrictive laws to oppress people they deemed ‘enemies of the state.’ . . . Gun Control in the Third Reich reminds us what can happen to a people deprived of arms, but it should also remind us that in Germany it wasn’t the Third Reich that created the laws and machinery to confiscate firearms but the liberal Weimar Republic—and it was done in the name of protecting the people. Protecting them to death, as it turned out.”
Chronicles

“Stephan Halbrook’s Gun Control in the Third Reich provides a stark example of why defenders of liberty must oppose any attempts to limit our ability to defend ourselves from private and public criminals. Halbrook’s work is especially timely since so many in Washington are once again trying to convince the people they have nothing to fear from gun registration and other infringements on our Second Amendment rights.”
Ron Paul, former U.S. Congressman and candidate for President of the United States

“Steeped in rich detail, exactingly researched, and supported by newly discovered documents, Gun Control in the Third Reich is a compelling work that no one who is serious about the gun control debate in America can ignore. Stephen P. Halbrook has produced a seminal piece of scholarship that describes how the gun control policies of the liberal Weimar Republic were molded into Hitler’s strategy to disarm both the Jews and his political opponents.”
Abraham H. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Cincinnati

Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook’s extensively documented account of gun control under Nazi Germany, shows how gun control was used to keep guns out of the ‘wrong’ hands, mainly Jews. Much of the discussion these days regarding registration focuses on the claimed ability to trace crime guns. There might be no evidence of registration’s success in doing that, but Halbrook slams home the success that registration had in tracing the guns of law-abiding politically undesirable citizens, so-called ‘enemies of the people.’ Americans in even modern cities such as New York can see how discretionary licensing on who can own guns keeps blacks from owning guns, but Germany paints a picture of how discretion was used to disarm Jews and others considered undesirable. Among the many chilling discussions is how German Jews were systematically disarmed just weeks before the Night of the Broken Glass (Reichskristallnacht). Ultimately, however, just as Americans have recently learned about their IRS tax records, Halbrook shows that no one can really guarantee promises that information on gun registration will never be abused.”
John R. Lott, Jr., author, More Guns, Less Crime; President, Crime Prevention Research Center

“In Gun Control in the Third Reich, Halbrook is particularly effective in showing how the path for Nazi totalitarianism was cleared, though inadvertently, by firearms laws of Weimar Germany. The political objective of those laws was to enhance the public welfare by diminishing the ability of the population to inflict violence on each other. What followed instead was something not foreseen by the principled, well-intending Weimar democrats who carried that policy into execution. Those laws—heavily laden with official discretion—left disfavored minorities perfectly helpless when Hitler and the Nazi government came to power. Halbrook’s book is the most complete depiction of a story that is interesting in itself, and which has lessons for our own place and time.”
Daniel D. Polsby, Dean and Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

“Stephen Halbrook, a renowned expert on the subject, systematically and brilliantly examines Nazi gun-control policy in Gun Control in the Third Reich. American advocates of banning guns have tried to downplay the Nazi example because stringent control preceded the Nazis. But the fact remains that the Nazis capitalized on the fact that neither the Jews nor other victims nor the Germans in general, as well as those people in the occupied countries, could resist the Holocaust because the Nazi government had all the guns.”
Don B. Kates, Jr., author, Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control and The Great American Gun Debate (with Gary Kleck)

“In Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook presents a detailed description of Germany’s gun laws from the years immediately after World War I to the end of the Second World War. There is an inevitability to this history: the reader is taken through a documented trail consisting of minor erosions of public freedom in the interest of public safety, usually initiated by well-meaning individuals during the Weimar years. . . . For American readers this book is also relevant. In the US, short-sighted legislators funded by wealthy political meddlers such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are callously manipulating the tragedy of crime’s victims as an excuse to introduce unjust gun control laws that will only erode the ability of Americans to protect their own country. . . . There is a kind of madness that seems to take over the mind of some who in their desire to distance themselves from gun violence, fall into the error of removing the very tools needed to protect the innocent from violence. . . . I fully recommend this book to any student of this period in our history. It is a history that has for too long been ignored. In presenting this analysis of the causes of the twentieth century’s greatest upheaval, World War II, Halbrook provides important lessons for us today.”
Catholic Insight

“The fascinating book Gun Control in the Third Reich deals with firearms regulation in Germany from the beginning of the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, when guns began to be heavily regulated, through the early days of World War II when gun ownership was punishable by death, through the Third Reich in 1945 when the government began to allow Germans access to weapons to fend off the Russian invaders. . . . Professor Halbrook does not claim that Hitler and the Holocaust would not have occurred had the population of Germany been armed. Nonetheless, firearms in the possession of individuals, especially Jews after they were ghettoized, might have raised the costs to the Nazis and slowed them down.”
William A. Schroeder, Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University

Gun Control in the Third Reich is Stephen Halbrook’s best book. He shows how the destruction of gun ownership, gun clubs, and self-defense was part of the National Socialists' extermination of civil society, individualism, and the Rule of Law.”
David B. Kopel, Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, Denver University Sturm College of Law; author, Guns: Who Should Have Them?; Research Director, Independence Institute

Gun Control in the Third Reich is an outstanding and important book. Author Stephen Halbrook precisely and persuasively demonstrates how anti-gun laws enacted with good intentions be democratic governments can destroy democracy and the rule of law itself. . . . In modern gun control debate in the United States, gun prohibition advocates have always attempted to dismiss the lessons of German history. The prohibitionists insist that the Nazis could have accomplished all of their objectives without confiscating guns, and that resistance to the Nazis would have been futile. The Nazis thought otherwise, as Halbrook meticulously details. The Nazis treated totalitarian control over gun ownership and complete disarmament of all potential opponents as an essential part of their program of subjugating the German people.”
America’s 1st Freedom

“’Gun control caused the Holocaust.’ That’s an argument, rather unhelpfully phrased, that American gun-rights supporters have been making for decades. . . . Are we talking about a world in which the Nazis behaved exactly the way they did, but inexplicably allowed their victims to remain armed? A world in which, as the Nazis came to power, Germany already had a widespread and passionate gun culture like America’s? Unfortunately, this bold assertion obscures very serious questions about the role disarmament can play in oppression. And at last we have the historical information we need to investigate those questions, in the form of Second Amendment lawyer Stephen P. Halbrook’s Gun Control in the Third Reich. It is the most extensive history to date of Nazi Germany’s policies on firearms, drawing largely on original documents. . . . It is hard to deny that these incidents would have been more plentiful if Germany had been more protective of gun rights over the preceding two decades. Would that have merely nudged the balance slightly in the right direction—a few dead Nazis, a few Jews saved from the concentration camps? Or could it have meant something more, in the context of 6 million people put to death? The answer is lost to history. The broader lesson of this book should not be: As the American Founders suspected, civilian disarmament and tyranny often go hand in hand.”
Washington Times

"Based on newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. While voluminous scholarship has documented the Third Reich and the Holocaust, this is the first thorough examination of the laws restricting firearm ownership that rendered Hitler's political opponents, as well as the Jews, defenseless. It also makes a compelling case that the National Socialist regime considered suppression of firearm ownership by disfavored groups a critical element of achieving its objectives. . . . Not every person who seeks disarmament is a dictator, but without question, dictators abhor an armed populace."
American Rifleman

“Anyone who participates in serious discourse will encounter at some point the reductio ad Hitlerum, a glib attempt to dismiss some person or policy by comparison to “the rise of Nazi Germany.” The vast literature on that theme, it turns out, contains little about gun control. In fact, Stephen Halbrook’s Gun Control in the Third Reich is the first serious book on the subject and, fortunately, much more than an examination of laws and regulations. . . . Halbrook shows how the National Socialists advanced Gleichshaltung, the forcing into line of all institutions into a totalitarian system. So they used the Weimar regulations to deny access to firearms to anyone who was not an adherent of Nazism. . . . Beyond its historical value, Gun Control in the Third Reich certainly should motivate American readers to cherish and protect their constitutional rights to keep and bear arms. The book also serves as a primer on the National Socialist regime, particularly for those puzzled by the reductio ad Hitlerum. Those who deploy that fallacy are fond of comparing the National Socialist regime, which they portray as ‘right wing,’ to free-market conservatism. Gleichshaltung leaves no room for anything like that, but Gun Control in the Third Reich does provide one clear example of laissez-faire under German National Socialism. When Rollkommandos — Nazi wrecking crews — attacked the disarmed and terrified opponents of the regime, the National Socialists ordered the police not to intervene. That’s what can happen when a militant state manages to disarm the populace.”
Carolina Journal

“I have never been one to be fascinated by Hitler and the Nazi's. I understand the importance of these strange and twisted people in history but just have directed my energies elsewhere except for some incidental reading. That changed a bit when I read another interesting book, a brief history of Hitler. It led me to wonder just how such a collection of ner’do’wells could take over an intelligent and educated country in such short order. Gun Control in the Third Reich answers that question. By executing or imprisoning anyone possessing ANY firearm Not only Hitler but his predecessors with the full support of the Allies, (Britain, France, the U.S.), after the first World War the populace had little choice but to go along. While in the US there are many who overstate the plausibility of a case for a modern American putsch against gun owners the simple fact is that it COULD happen. Stephen P. Halbrook sets up the historical precedent well, makes few outlandish claims, and ends up with a chilling narrative of government for government.”
NetGalley

“Stephen Halbrook, has written a remarkably well documented analysis of how Adolf Hitler and his Nazi henchmen in the government made private, ‘unauthorized’ gun ownership a capital crime, while using registration records to effectively turn ordinary Germans into instant criminals. Halbrook’s book took 15 years to research and write, and he relied on German archivists and translators to assist him in plowing through original records and files from 1920s, `30s and `40s Germany. The result is Gun Control in the Third Reich, a fascinating, readable, informative and important book.”
TheGunMag.com

“How did Hitler do it? There is no shortage of theories or writings related to the rise of the Third Reich and the subsequent Holocaust. Halbrook, however, offers a compelling and important account of the role of gun control in aiding Hitler’s goals of exterminating the Jews and other 'enemies of the state.' While much of the early gun prohibition was created with supposedly good intent, Halbrook carefully and meticulously details how a change in political regime was all it took for some well-intentioned gun registration laws and other prohibitions to be used in ways never intended. The Third Reich was able to further its agenda due to available gun prohibition, and continued to expand such prohibition to aid in achieving its desired goals. Students of this period of history as well as Second Amendment (and other) gun rights enthusiasts, will find this a fascinating book, and will find parallels between gun prohibition in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany and attempts to prohibit types of gun ownership and implement other forms of gun control in the United States today. . . . It is an astonishingly fresh and important look at this historical period, if for no other reason than to raise the question as to why no other research on the Third Reich and the Holocaust has addressed the role of gun control in the tragedies that occurred. The rapid pace with which Hitler disarmed the populace in Germany is astonishing. Halbrook’s account is gripping, thorough, and full of legal documentation, leading the reader through the sometimes-daily changes in gun prohibitions that furthered Hitler’s agenda. . . . Halbrook concludes by noting that less government regulation and a tradition of rejecting tyranny could have led to a different outcome in Germany. Instead, systematic creation and manipulation of firearms registration and regulations, coupled with the decimation of individual citizen’s rights, enabled Hitler’s dictatorship and the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and citizens of Nazi-occupied countries, as well as tens of thousands of Germans. It remains for all of us to wonder what might have been had people refused to register their firearms. Indeed, we should all take note and bear in mind, Never Again.”
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and ‘Enemies of the State’ is an astonishing piece of scholarship: complete; careful; thoughtful. . . . In doing so, Halbrook makes use of an astonishing set of sources. His secondary sources are impressive. . . . Halbrook goes far beyond that, however, with an impressive collection of primary sources, including diaries by people who lived through the time, surviving police records, internal government memos, and court decisions.”
PJ Media

“Stephen Halbrook’s extensive research demonstrates how the German government neglected to consider that law-abiding citizens would register their firearms when criminals and extremists would not. It took a mere 20 years for the right of private citizens to keep and bear arms to be replaced by registration, confiscation and death camps. Besides Jews, whose property was taken or destroyed, 'enemies of the state' included members of the opposing political party. Once disarmed, these groups could offer no effective resistance to the horrific crimes of the Nazi regime.”
Shooting Illustrated

“Stephen Halbrook’s book, Gun Control in the Third Reich offers a compelling and important account of the role of gun prohibition in aiding Hitler’s goals of exterminating the Jews and other ‘enemies of the state.’ While much of the early gun prohibition was created with supposedly good intent, Halbrook carefully and meticulously details how a change in political regime facilitated manipulating some well-intentioned gun registration laws and other gun prohibition to be used in inconceivable ways. Students of history as well as Second Amendment enthusiasts will find this a fascinating book and will find parallels between gun prohibition in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, and attempts to prohibit types of gun ownership and implement other forms of gun prohibition in the United States today. The current climate in the United States surrounding gun prohibition combined with a president who uses his office to impose executive order in ways not historically common gives many citizens pause, especially when looking at the era of the Third Reich. While certain states have imposed gun registration laws recently, enforcement of the laws remains unclear. While Halbrook is careful to point out that a combination of factors led to the events of the Holocaust, there is no denying that many of the pre-war activities contributed to Hitler’s ability to disarm targeted groups, particularly the Jews. . . . Halbrook concludes by noting that less government regulation and a tradition of rejecting tyranny could have led to a different outcome in Germany. Instead, systematic creation and manipulation of firearms registration and regulations, coupled with the decimation of individual citizen’s rights, enabled Hitler’s dictatorship and the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and citizens of Nazi-occupied countries, as well as tens of thousands of Germans. It remains for all of us to wonder what might have been had people refused to register their firearms. Indeed, we should all take note and never forget.”
Mises.org

“The definitive book on the subject, settling the issue once and for all with full documentation.”
WND

“In Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook, a renowned U.S. lawyer, academic, and Senior Fellow at California’s Independent Institute, shows how the Nazis used a policy of aggressive civil disarmament to render the inhabitants of their dominions anxious, vulnerable, and totally stripped of the ability to render any effective form of opposition to the forces of evil. . . . Enforcement of gun control laws was placed in the hands of the Gestapo, the secret police who operated outside the jurisdiction of the courts, and who had the power to arrest and detain citizens with impunity. Arbitrary searches and seizures became an almost everyday occurrence, and anyone found to be in violation of the law could expect to be rapidly dispatched to a concentration camp. . . . as Gun Control in the Third Reich shows, even in the best of times, civil disarmament can be a highly problematic issue, and under some circumstances, it can pose an even greater peril to civilized society than the evils it supposedly serves to eradicate.”
eVeritas, Royal Military Colleges Club, Canada

Gun Control in the Third Reich is a fascinating look back at an ugly chapter in modern history, as well as a prescient lesson for contemporary defenders of Second Amendment rights. . . . What will happen if the anti-gun crowd gets its way in America? Reading this chilling book will open your eyes to one of History’s most egregious precedents of total gun control and leave you with little to imagine.”
The Illinois Shooter

Author

Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won three constitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books including The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees; Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as “The Phil Donahue Show” and programs on Fox Business Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN, and C-SPAN.

Awards

Awards

2014 David & Goliath Award (awarded by Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership)

  • “Halbrook established beyond any rational doubt that Nazi gun laws were enacted, among other things, to disarm Jews and further or even enable the Holocaust. Discourse in America about the role of disarming civilians and genocide will continue, but not on a factual basis in light of Halbrook's seminal work. JPFO was founded with Aaron Zelman's research at the forefront, establishing that U.S. gun laws were built upon Nazi gun laws. Now the tapestry of disarmament and dictatorial control is more complete, and impervious to specious unraveling.”

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“The Left Wants to Take Our Guns and Leave Us Defenseless. Ask Yourself Why. Donald Trump Knows All Too Well” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on The Stream Mon., Jul. 15, 2024
“Democrats’ gun bills target civilians like you and me” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Letter to the Editor in the Times-Call (CO) Mon., Mar. 13, 2023
“In the Shadow of D-Day” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France cited in American Greatness Fri., Jun. 10, 2022
“Why Do Socialists Like Gun Control ?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the The Republican Professor show Wed., Jun. 8, 2022
“Kamala and the AK-47 Killer” Gun Control in the Third Reich and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in American Greatness Wed., Jun. 1, 2022
“Is There a Christian Stance on Gun Control?” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Ibelieve.com Wed., May. 25, 2022
“New CA Bill Would Force Parents of Schoolkids to Reveal Firearm Ownership, Storage Locations” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and ‘Enemies of the State’ cited on Media Research Center Mon., Feb. 14, 2022
“National Gun Registry May Be Around the Corner” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Conservative Daily News Mon., Nov. 15, 2021
“4 Tyrannical Regimes that Relied on Gun Confiscation to Maintain Power” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in The Daily Wire and Conservative Angle Mon., Aug. 30, 2021
“Government trying to control the people” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in Letter to the Editor in the Amsterdam Recorder (NY) and The Daily Gazette (NY) Fri., Aug. 6, 2021
“Biden-Harris Gun Violence ‘Fact Sheet’ Comes Up Short on Facts” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in the Washington Examiner Wed., Apr. 21, 2021
“LETTER: Guns are not the problem” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in Letter to the Editor in the Fauquier Times (VA) Fri., Apr. 9, 2021
“Why Gun Sales Doubled with Biden’s Election” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on The Center Square Mon., Mar. 8, 2021
“Three Things that Make This Gun Bill Alarming” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Medium Thu., Mar. 4, 2021
“Joe Biden Wants a Huge New Tax on Gun Owners” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Mises Wire Thu., Dec. 3, 2020
“Who’s Likelier to Take Your Guns Away? An Authoritarian Regime” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in the New York Daily News Wed., Oct. 14, 2020
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in eVeritas (Royal Military Colleges Club, Canada) Tue., Jun. 23, 2020
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in The Virginia Gazette Fri., Jan. 10, 2020
“I Wish Those Jews Had Had Guns” Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State” by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is cited on The Stream Thu., Dec. 12, 2019
“The Hunt for Red America” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is cited on FrontpageMag.com Wed., Aug. 14, 2019
“How the Nazis Used Registration to Imprison Enemies of the State” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed on TheGunMag.com Wed., Mar. 13, 2019
“Will Gun Grabbers Exploit Thousand Oaks to Disarm Still More Americans, like Its Victims?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Stream.org Fri., Nov. 9, 2018
“‘Nazi Gun Control Theory’ is Antisemitic Victim-Blaming” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Patheos Thu., Nov. 1, 2018
“Parkland High School Survivor Receives David & Goliath Award” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in Ammoland Mon., Oct. 8, 2018
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited in National Review Tue., Sep. 11, 2018
“Nazisplaining Made Easy” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited in The Daily Caller Wed., Sep. 5, 2018
“Red Sox Star’s Home Run Response to Hitler Post Outrage: ‘I Stand by the Second Amendment’” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, cited in Lifezette Fri., Aug. 31, 2018
“Does Gun Control Lead to Genocide?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on AmericanThinker.com Fri., Jun. 1, 2018
“Is the Right to Bear Arms God-Given?” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited in The New American Thu., May. 10, 2018
“Guns are necessary for preservation of liberty” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in letter to the editor in the Albany Times Union Wed., May. 9, 2018
“The Second Amendment is Here to Stay” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Washington Times citing Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook Wed., Apr. 25, 2018
“Chipping Away at the Second Amendment” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on AmericanThinker.com Mon., Apr. 23, 2018
“Governments that Disarm the People Have Troubling History” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Albuquerque Journal Thu., Apr. 5, 2018
“Why the Second Amendment?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on AmericanThinker.com Thu., Mar. 29, 2018
“Georgia Democrat Rep: We Don’t Want To Confiscate Guns, We Want To Seize Them” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on FreedomOutpost.com Tue., Mar. 27, 2018
“Gun control is a slippery slope to totalitarian government” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is cited in the Charleston Gazette-Mail (WV) Letter to the editor Mon., Mar. 26, 2018
“The March of Ignorance” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Liberty Nation Sun., Mar. 25, 2018
“March Madness” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is cited on Front Page Magazine Sun., Mar. 25, 2018
“How the Nazis Used Gun Control” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on CampaignForLiberty.org Fri., Mar. 23, 2018
“Gun control: a slippery slope” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is cited in Charleston Herald-Dispatch (WV) Letter to the Editor Mon., Mar. 12, 2018
“Letter: Protect the kids and our right of self-defense” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on The Charleston Daily Gazette Letter to the Editor (WV) Mon., Mar. 5, 2018
“Guns could have saved Jews during the Holocaust, Alaska congressman says” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Cleveland Jewish News Thu., Mar. 1, 2018
“Disarming Citizens Could Increase Gun Violence” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Newsmax.com Thu., Mar. 1, 2018
“Guns could have saved Jews from the Holocaust, Alaska congressman says” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Sacramento Bee Thu., Mar. 1, 2018
“Don Young: ‘If Jews had guns, they wouldn’t have burned’” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on GOPUSA.com Thu., Mar. 1, 2018
Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The News Tribune (WA) Wed., Feb. 28, 2018
“The Danger of Disarming” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on World Net Daily Wed., Feb. 28, 2018
“Alaska Rep. Don Young suggests Jews with guns could have stopped Nazis” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on NBCNews.com Wed., Feb. 28, 2018
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited (Ammoland: Shooting Sports News) Thu., Dec. 28, 2017
“No: Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich and The Founders’ Second Amendment Op-Ed in Tribune News Service syndicated newspapers Fri., Oct. 13, 2017
“Ultimate Gun Control is Already in the Hands of the People” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) Fri., Oct. 13, 2017
“Democrat’s Gun Control Surge” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Front Page Magazine Thu., Oct. 12, 2017
“A Warrior for Our Rights Shrugs off a Strange Attack” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in NRA’s First Freedom Magazine Mon., Sep. 18, 2017
“A Warrior for Our Rights Shrugs Off a Strange Attack” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in America’s First Freedom Mon., Sep. 18, 2017
“Washington Post’s Resident Anti-Gun Zealot Parades his Ignorance in SHARE Act Column” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned on NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action Fri., Sep. 15, 2017
“The NRA’s Idea of Recreation: Assault Rifles, Armor-Piercing Bullets and Silencers” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Washington Post and other newspapers Wed., Sep. 13, 2017
“Suppressors at the Center of House SHARE Act Hearings” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted on Guns.com Wed., Sep. 13, 2017
“ADL Alarmed by Author Speaking to Congress Who Links Gun Control, Holocaust” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Times of Israel Tue., Sep. 12, 2017
Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited in “The Hearing Protection Act and ‘Silencers’”(Washington Post) Mon., Jun. 19, 2017
The Promise Packs A Warning” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Daily Caller Mon., May. 1, 2017
“A Q&A with famed Second Amendment scholar, litigator and author Stephen Halbrook” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich interviewed in the Sarasota Herald Tribune (FL) Wed., Oct. 12, 2016
“Registration, Confiscation, Arrest” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Op-Ed in The Daily Caller Wed., Sep. 21, 2016
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook is reviewed on Maverick Philosopher Tue., Sep. 6, 2016
“Gun Writer: Famed Author to Speak on Gun Control in the Third Reich” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in the Sarasota Herald Tribune (FL) Tue., Aug. 30, 2016
“The Washington Gun Control Axis” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is cited on the Daily Caller Thu., Jul. 7, 2016
“Reality Check: The ‘Assault Weapon’ Fantasy & Second Amendment Jurisprudence,” by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy) Fri., Jul. 1, 2016
“Democrats Taking Wrong path on Guns, Terrorists” Gun Control in the Third Reich” by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in letter to the editor of the Lehigh Valley Express-Times (PA) Mon., Jun. 27, 2016
“Gun Control in Nazi Germany” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook reviewed in The Jackson Press Wed., May. 11, 2016
“Judge Garland and the Second Amendment” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of The Founder’s Second Amendment Op-Ed in the Washington Times Tue., Mar. 29, 2016
“Legal Thinkers Debate the Interpretation of Second Amendment at UConn” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich” cited on WNPR radio Thu., Mar. 3, 2016
“Dictatorship versus Public Safety” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in The Paper of Montgomery County (IN) Sat., Feb. 20, 2016
“Firearm Sound Moderators: Issues of Criminalization and the Second Amendment,” by Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Cumberland Law Review)) Mon., Feb. 1, 2016
“Gun Control By Presidential Decree?” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Op-Ed in the Daily Caller Tue., Jan. 5, 2016
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook excerpted in Soldier of Fortune Magazine Tue., Dec. 22, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook excerpted in the January, 2016, NRA magazine American Rifleman Mon., Dec. 21, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Dr. Carlos Radio Show Mon., Nov. 2, 2015
“Prominent Jewish-Americans Defend Second Amendment Rights” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is cited in Washington Times Tue., Oct. 27, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Conners USA radio show on KTRS radio in St. Louis Fri., Oct. 23, 2015
“Arizona Congressman Sets Sights on Removal of Gun Suppressors from National Firearms Act” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Freedom Outpost Fri., Oct. 23, 2015
“2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Just Opened the Door to Australian-Style Gun Ban” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in Freedom Outpost Wed., Oct. 21, 2015
“Germany’s Firearms” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in letter to the editor in the Miami Herald Mon., Oct. 19, 2015
“Ben Carson: Clear and present danger?”, by Larry Elder cites Gun Control in the Third Reich, by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook (WND) Sat., Oct. 17, 2015
“Yes, Nazis Disarming Jews Did Make A Difference” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Op-Ed in Investor’s Business Daily Fri., Oct. 16, 2015
“Alan Steinweis’s Bad History” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Washington Post Fri., Oct. 16, 2015
“Ben Carson: Clear and Present Danger?” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in World Net Daily, Creators.org, and Patriot Post Thu., Oct. 15, 2015
“Media Firestorm over Ben Carson, Jews and Guns” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in The Jewish Star Thu., Oct. 15, 2015
“Nazi Gun Control: Three Words that Go Together” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Stream Wed., Oct. 14, 2015
“Ben Carson’s Defenders Say Comment on Holocaust and Jewish Guns Has Merit” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Breaking Israel News Tue., Oct. 13, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in “Ben Carson, Jews and guns, and a media firestorm” (JNS.org) Mon., Oct. 12, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in “Ben Carson, Jews and guns, and a media firestorm” (The Algemeiner) Mon., Oct. 12, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in “Ben Carson’s Defenders Say Comment on Holocaust and Jewish Guns Has Merit” (The Jewish Press) Sun., Oct. 11, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in “Media in Disbelief as Ben Carson Claims Jews Were Easier Targets of Nazis Due to Gun Disarmament” (Independent Journal) Sat., Oct. 10, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Elder Radio Show on KRLA Fri., Oct. 9, 2015
“Ben Carson Is Right: Yes, Jews Should Have Had Guns in the Holocaust” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on Breitbart.com Fri., Oct. 9, 2015
“ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ben Carson Suggests that Gun Rights Might Have Changed History for Jews in WWII” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Pajamas Media Fri., Oct. 9, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KGNW radio in Seattle Thu., Aug. 27, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WTJK/WBEL radio in Wisconsin Wed., Aug. 26, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh Thu., Aug. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KBYR radio in Alaska Thu., Aug. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WGCH radio in Connecticut Wed., Aug. 19, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KPRL radio in California Wed., Aug. 19, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KTKK radio in Utah Tue., Aug. 18, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KVFD radio in Iowa Tue., Aug. 18, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WEZO radio in Georgia Thu., Aug. 13, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KRVL/KERV radio in Texas Thu., Aug. 13, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KBYR radio in Alaska Wed., Aug. 12, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on The Bill Cunningham radio show in Cincinnnati Wed., Aug. 12, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on The Mike Howe radio show in Washington Wed., Aug. 12, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WILS radio in Michigan Wed., Aug. 12, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KMED radio in Oregon Tue., Aug. 11, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KXYL radio in Texas Fri., Jul. 31, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KRVL/KERV radio in Texas Tue., Jul. 21, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on News Talk Florida Mon., Jul. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KNTH in Houston Mon., Jul. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KVOR/KCOL radio in Colorado Mon., Jul. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WNDB radio in Florida Mon., Jul. 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on WRKL radio in New York Wed., Jul. 15, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Reviewed in The American Spectator Mon., Jul. 13, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich By Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook mentioned in Washington Jewish Week Thu., Jul. 9, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook quoted and his book Gun Control in the Third Reich cited (The New American) Thu., Jun. 25, 2015
“Armenian Genocide didn’t happen by accident,” by Stephen P. Halbrook is featured on the official website of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Thu., May. 14, 2015
“Armenian Genocide Was No Accident” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Op-Ed in McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers Wed., May. 13, 2015
“LETTER: Jews Encouraged to Buy Guns in Nazi Germany?” Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in letter to the editor of the Asbury (NJ) Park Press and 8 other newspapers Fri., Apr. 3, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich By Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in Huffington Post Quebec (in French) Thu., Apr. 2, 2015
“Rabbi’s Demand: Let Jews Defend Themselves from Terrorism” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Op-Ed in The Detroit News and 50 others Tue., Mar. 31, 2015
“Gun Registration Is the First Step Towards Disarming the People” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is reviewed in The Daily Caller Tue., Mar. 31, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich Author, Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Appears on the Tom Woods Radio Show Tue., Mar. 24, 2015
“Don’t Allow U.S. Leaders to Disarm Our Citizens” Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich mentioned in letter to the editor in Asbury Park Press Mon., Mar. 23, 2015
“N.Y.’s Not So ‘SAFE’ Act,” by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Albany Law Review) Wed., Mar. 4, 2015
“The Nazi gun confiscation and Obama” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in Examiner.com Mon., Mar. 2, 2015
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in American Rifleman Mon., Feb. 23, 2015
“Legal Expert Stephen Halbrook: Gun Rights Are Human Rights” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in The Daily Caller Sat., Feb. 14, 2015
“Self-Defense for European Jews—and Everyone Else” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in Orange County Register Wed., Feb. 11, 2015
“Musings on the University of Tennessee gun debate” Research Fellow and author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Stephen P. Halbrook cited on Examiner.com Thu., Jan. 29, 2015
“Liam Neeson blasted for ‘rank hypocrisy’” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in WorldNetDaily Wed., Jan. 14, 2015
“Kerry Lied: National Gun Registration Is Part of the UN Small Arms Treaty” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on FreedomOutpost.com Tue., Jan. 6, 2015
“Stephen Halbrook and Regis Giles” Research Fellow and author of Gun Control in the Third Reich” appears on The Polite Society Podcast Mon., Dec. 22, 2014
“Gun Control Measures Hazardous for Citizens” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Op-Ed on NewsMax.com Wed., Nov. 26, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in Catholic Insight Magazine Mon., Nov. 24, 2014
“Stephen Halbrook: Defending Freedom Against Gun Confiscation” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook interviewed on The Daily Bell Mon., Nov. 17, 2014
“Stephen Halbrook: Defending Freedom Against Gun Confiscation” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted on FreeRepublic.com Sun., Nov. 16, 2014
“American Gun and Book Review” Gun Control and the Third Reich By Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook reviewed on RiseOfAntiMedia.com Thu., Nov. 13, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author, Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Bill Meyer Show Wed., Nov. 12, 2014
“Gun Control: A Tyrant’s Tool in World History” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook cited on Breitbart.com Tue., Nov. 11, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich Author, Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Appears on the Tom Woods Radio Show Sat., Nov. 1, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Lars Larson Radio Show Fri., Oct. 31, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Jesse Lee Peterson radio show Thu., Oct. 23, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author, Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Bill Martinez Radio Show Mon., Oct. 20, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the The Jiggy Jaguar Show on KKRP Radio Sat., Oct. 18, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on Steve Malzberg Show on NewsMax TV Thu., Oct. 16, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Franklin Raff Radio Show Thu., Oct. 16, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on The Tom Anderson Radio Show Wed., Oct. 15, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich To Appear on the Stossel show on the Fox Business Network Thursday, Oct. 16 9pm ET/ 6pm PT Wed., Oct. 15, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Appears on The Stossel Show Wed., Oct. 15, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Dick Morris radio show on 1210 WPHT Wed., Oct. 15, 2014
“New trend: Billionaires ‘Buying Gun Control’” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in World Net Daily Tue., Oct. 14, 2014
Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Appears on C-SPAN’s Book TV Sun., Oct. 5, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich awarded the 2014 David & Goliath Award from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Fri., Oct. 3, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on Operation Freedom radio show with Dr. Dave Janda Sun., Sep. 14, 2014
Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Appears on C-SPAN’s Book TV Sat., Sep. 13, 2014
“Stephen P. Halbrook’s, “Are There Lessons for Us Today from Nazi Gun Control?” to be Featured on BookTV” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook mentioned on NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action Fri., Sep. 12, 2014
Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Appears on C-SPAN’s Book TV Sun., Sep. 7, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in The Illinois Shooter magazine Mon., Sep. 1, 2014
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich is interviewed on the Freedom & Prosperity Radio Show Sun., Aug. 24, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in Chronicles Wed., Aug. 20, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Tue., Aug. 19, 2014
Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Appears on C-SPAN’s Book TV Mon., Aug. 18, 2014
“The Empire Strikes Back: The District of Columbia’s Post-Heller Firearm Registration System,” by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Tennessee Law Review) Fri., Aug. 15, 2014
“A Jew And His Guns” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook cited in TruthRevolt.org Mon., Aug. 4, 2014
“Halbrook Presents Lessons of Nazi Gun Control” Stephen Halbrook Live Event Profiled on Examiner.com Fri., Jul. 25, 2014
“Lessons from Nazi Gun Control” Op-Ed by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook in The San Francisco Chronicle Thu., Jul. 17, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich Author Stephen Halbrook Appears on Operation Freedom radio show Mon., Jun. 30, 2014
“The Right to Bear Arms in the Virginia Constitution and the Second Amendment: Historical Development and Precedent in Virginia and the Fourth Circuit,” by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Liberty University Law Review) Sun., Jun. 1, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State” reviewed at MovieGuide Wed., May. 28, 2014
“Book tells true story about gun control,” by Carl Catlett (Springfield News-Leader) Wed., May. 28, 2014
“Gun Control Then And Now. Does History Repeat Itself?” Review of (Michael B. Weisser) Sun., May. 25, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich Author and Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook appears on Gun Talk Radio Mon., May. 19, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Is Reviewed at LewRockwell.com Sat., May. 10, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Is Reviewed at Mises.org Fri., May. 9, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook Is Reviewed at Right Side News Fri., May. 9, 2014
“Stephen Halbrook’s Masterful History of Nazi Gun Control Measures by Clayton E. Cramer,” at Ruthfully Yours Fri., Apr. 11, 2014
“Megillas Esther and the Problem with Gun Control” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen Halbrook cited in The Times of Israel Mon., Mar. 17, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich favorably reviewed in Swiss arms magazineSchweizer Waffen Magazin (German language) Fri., Mar. 14, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook to appear on WBOB radio Rhode Island on Thursday, March 20 at 8pm ET Mon., Mar. 3, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is Reviewed in PJ Media Tue., Feb. 25, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich favorably reviewed in Shooting Illustrated Mon., Feb. 24, 2014
Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Stephen P. Halbrook appears on Tami Jackson Show Tue., Feb. 11, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Bill Post Radio Show Wed., Feb. 5, 2014
“New Book Contains Lessons from History on Civilian Disarmament” recommends Gun Control in the Third Reich at NRA-ILA News & Issues Sat., Feb. 1, 2014
“What Made the Nazi Holocaust Possible? Gun Control,” by Stephen P. Halbrook in America’s 1st Freedom Thu., Jan. 30, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on Liberty Watch radio program on KVOI radio Mon., Jan. 20, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Jason Lewis Radio Show Thu., Jan. 16, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Ed Morrissey Radio Show Mon., Jan. 13, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Georgene Rice Radio Show on KPDQ Portland, OR Wed., Jan. 8, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KPDQ radio’s Georgine Rice Show Tue., Jan. 7, 2014
“Fingerprinting, background checks required for D.C. gun owners” Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in The Washington Times Fri., Jan. 3, 2014
“Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation” Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in The Washington Times Wed., Jan. 1, 2014
“Gun Control Under Tyrants Offers Lessons” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook is reviewed in Carolina Journal Tue., Dec. 31, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed in the Washington Times and NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action Sun., Dec. 29, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed in the The Truth About Guns.com Sun., Dec. 29, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich recommended by Firearms Coalition Tue., Dec. 24, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on One America News Network Television Mon., Dec. 23, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KHQN-AM radio Fri., Dec. 20, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich is reviewed in The Shooter’s Log newsletter by Cheaper Than Dirt firearms retailer. Fri., Dec. 20, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed in Shotgun News Fri., Dec. 20, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on Wilkow! on The Blaze TV network Thu., Dec. 19, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on WIND radio in Chicago Thu., Dec. 19, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on WCBM radio in Baltimore Thu., Dec. 19, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Peter Boyles radio show Tue., Dec. 17, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KTRW-AM radio Tue., Dec. 17, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KFMB radio Tue., Dec. 17, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KBOB-AM radio Mon., Dec. 16, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Rusty Humphries radio show (Paywall) Mon., Dec. 16, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Voice for Freedom radio show with Ginger Carlisle and Lin DiCesare on WFHT Florida Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
“Gun Controls: Are You ‘Reliable’?” Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in Family Security Matters Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on KNTH radio’s Sam Malone in the Morning Show Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KKHT radio’s and KBXD radio’s What’s Up with Terry Lowry Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on the Bill Meyer Show on KMED radio Tue., Dec. 10, 2013
“The Day the Holocaust Began” Stephen P. Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Interviewed in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Mon., Dec. 9, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen Halbrook is reviewed in MarksBookReviews.com Sun., Dec. 8, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WYPV-FM’s and WAVC-FM’s The Pastor Gary Biggs radio show Sat., Dec. 7, 2013
“How Can Gun Owners Counter Negative Images of Gun Ownership and Everyday Carry” Gun Control in the Third Reich cited in Mississippi Gun News Fri., Dec. 6, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on KZIM Radio Morning Newswatch with Faune Riggin Thu., Dec. 5, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on The Larry Elder radio show on KABC Los Angeles Thu., Dec. 5, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on KFXR-AM’s The Dan Cofall radio show Thu., Dec. 5, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on The Peter Boyles radio show on KNUS Colorado Tue., Dec. 3, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on The Steve Hawkins radio Show on WXBQ Tue., Dec. 3, 2013
“Lessons from the 1938 Hitler Gun Control Act” Gun Control in the Third Reich is reviewed by RichardCYoung.com Tue., Dec. 3, 2013
“How Nazis Used Gun Control” By Stephen Halbrook, Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich in National Review Mon., Dec. 2, 2013
“More Bad News for Gun Grabbers” Research Fellow and author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Stephen Halbrook cited in Townhall.com Thu., Nov. 28, 2013
“The Nazis’ Gun Ban Facilitated Kristallnact – Killing Defenseless Jews” Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed in FreeiNews.com Mon., Nov. 25, 2013
“The Nazis’ Gun Ban Facilitated Kristallnact,” by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich (History News Network) Mon., Nov. 25, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on WDUN radio’s Morning Show with Bill and Joel show Mon., Nov. 25, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on WSMN radio’s The People’s Voice show Sat., Nov. 23, 2013
“Gun Control: Lessons to Learn from the Third Reich‘‘ Research Fellow and Author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen P. Halbrook, interviewed on CBN News Fri., Nov. 22, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich Author Stephen P. Halbrook Interviewed on CBN News Fri., Nov. 22, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Final Say radio show Thu., Nov. 21, 2013
“Gun Control, the Jews, and the Third Reich” Gun Control in the Third Reich Reviewed in American Thinker Wed., Nov. 20, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on A Call to Rights radio show Sat., Nov. 16, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WKFA radio’s Ed Dean show Fri., Nov. 15, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Bev Smith radio show Fri., Nov. 15, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WJRW radio’ Michigan’s Morning News Fri., Nov. 15, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on The Rob Schilling radio show Fri., Nov. 15, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WKRC radio’s Morning Show Host Brian Thomas Thu., Nov. 14, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WGDJ radio’s Melody Burns show Thu., Nov. 14, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on OnlyGunsAndMoney.com Wed., Nov. 13, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KCOL radio with Host Al Malmberg Tue., Nov. 12, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on Armed America Radio Mon., Nov. 11, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on American Family Radio Mon., Nov. 11, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen Halbrook appears on The Janet Mefferd radio show Mon., Nov. 11, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WFTL radio’s Joyce Kaufman show Mon., Nov. 11, 2013
“The Mother of All Nazi Analogies, Now Available at Amazon” Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed by The New Republic Mon., Nov. 11, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on KVOI radio’s Inside Track show with host Emil Franzi Sat., Nov. 9, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook is reviewed in Save America Foundation Sat., Nov. 9, 2013
“Ridiculous Fantasy of the Day: What if the Nazis Had Not Supported Gun Control?” Gun Control in the Third Reich is cited on The Counterfactual History Review Fri., Nov. 8, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WFLA radio’s Bud Hedinger Live show Fri., Nov. 8, 2013
“School Official Tries to Label Complaining Parent a ‘Neo-Nazi’,” by Selwyn Duke cites Gun Control in the Third Reich, by Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook (New American) Fri., Nov. 8, 2013
“What Made the Nazi Holocaust Possible? Gun control” Op-Ed by Stephen Halbrook in The Washington Times Fri., Nov. 8, 2013
“New Book Looks at Hitler’s Use of Gun Control to Disarm Jews” Gun Control in the Third Reich in The Daily Caller Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
“Gun Control in the Third Reich” author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WTPF radio’s Bill LuMaye show Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
“New book looks at Hitler’s use of gun control to disarm Jews,” Jamie Weinstein interviews Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich (The Daily Caller) Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
“Stephen Halbrook on His New Book Gun Control in the Third Reich” Posted on The Freedom Watch Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on Bill LuMaye Show Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WJRW Radio’ Michigan Morning News Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WSBA radio’s York’s Morning News Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WGSO radio’s Ringside Politics show Thu., Nov. 7, 2013
“Past as Prelude: Nazi Disarmament & US Gun Grab” Gun Control in the Third Reich reviewed in The New American Wed., Nov. 6, 2013
“NOW OUT FROM STEPHEN HALBROOK: Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and ‘Enemies of the State’. I read it in manuscript — very interesting history going well beyond what you usually hear in such discussions.” (Instapundit) Tue., Nov. 5, 2013
“Gun Control in the Third Reich” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on KBXD radio’s TruNews with Rick Wiles Tue., Nov. 5, 2013
“Gun Control in the Third Reich” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Phil Valentine radio show Tue., Nov. 5, 2013
Gun Control In The Third Reich, How Does It Compare to the USA in 2013?” (Somicom Independent Press) Mon., Nov. 4, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Stephen P. Halbrook appears on WTPL radio’s Bulldog Live show with host Brian Tilton Mon., Nov. 4, 2013
“Gun Control in the Third Reich” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich joins WWNC radio’s Pete Kaliner Mon., Nov. 4, 2013
“Gun Control in the Third Reich” Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on The Tea Party News Network’s Capitol Hill Show” Mon., Nov. 4, 2013
Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on NRA News Television with Cam Edwards Fri., Nov. 1, 2013
Review by Dave Kopel of Gun Control in the Third Reich in America’s 1st Freedom Fri., Nov. 1, 2013
“Book Review: ‘Emily Gets Her Gun...But Obama Wants to Take Yours’” By Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich” Wed., Oct. 30, 2013
“How Adolf Hitler Prevented ‘Subject Races’ from Possessing Arms” (Ammoland: Shooting Sports News) Mon., Oct. 28, 2013
“How Adolf Hitler Prevented ‘Subject Races’ from Possessing Arms” Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on ExploringtheNews.com Mon., Oct. 28, 2013
Gun Control in the Third Reich endorsed by Ron Paul (Daily Paul) Sun., Oct. 27, 2013
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook is interviewed at Breitbart.com: “How Adolf Hitler Prevented ‘Subject Races’ from Possessing Arms” Sun., Oct. 27, 2013
“New Documentary to Illustrate History of Second Amendment and Current Firearm Policy Debates” Research Fellow and author of Gun Control in the Third Reich Stephen Halbrook mentioned on NRA-ILA website. Mon., Sep. 23, 2013
“Forthcoming Book: Gun Control in the Third Reich Tue., Sep. 3, 2013
“Scholarly book presents ‘hidden history’ of Nazi ‘gun control’,” by David Codrea (Examiner.com) Sun., Aug. 11, 2013
“Steve Halbrook’s next book” Gun Control in the Third Reich is reviewed on Arms and the Law Thu., Aug. 8, 2013
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook interviewed “It’s a Wonderful Model” (Current Concerns) Mon., Jun. 10, 2013
“Why Can’t We Be Like France? How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration Was Decreed Just in Time for the Nazi Occupation,” by Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook (Fordham Urban Law Journal) Mon., Oct. 1, 2012
“The Constitutional Right to Hunt: New Recognition of an Old Liberty in Virginia,” by Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal) Tue., Jun. 1, 2010

Events

Past Events
Event Date
Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook speaks at 20th Anniversary Annual National Firearms Law Seminar, NRA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA Fri., Apr. 28, 2017
Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich speaks at The University of Illinois Law School Federalist Society on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016 Wed., Nov. 2, 2016
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich speaks at the Al Katz Center on Thursday, October 13 Thu., Oct. 13, 2016
“Going Armed at Common Law,” by Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook (presented Firearms and the Common Law Tradition Conference at the Aspen Institute, Washington, DC) Fri., Sep. 16, 2016
Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook speaks at 19th Anniversary Annual National Firearms Law Seminar, NRA Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY Fri., May. 20, 2016
Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook speaks at International Students for Liberty Conference, Washington, DC Sat., Feb. 27, 2016
Reception and book signing with Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich (University Club, New York City) Thu., Oct. 16, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich author Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook speaks at the 29th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Chicago Sat., Sep. 27, 2014
“Are There Lessons for Us Today from Nazi Gun Control?” Live Event with Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, Thursday, July 24th, 6 pm PT Thu., Jul. 24, 2014
As keynote speaker, Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook discusses his book Gun Control in the Third Reich at the Kansas State Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting in Overland Park, KS Sat., Jun. 7, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook speaks at 17th Annual Firearms Law Seminar, NRA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN Fri., Apr. 25, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich speaks at the 2013 Firearms Law & The Second Amendment Symposium in Denver, CO Sat., Oct. 12, 2013
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich speaks at the Texas Bar Association CLE Seminar, Fort Worth, TX: “What Every Texas Lawyer Needs to Know About Firearms Law 2013” Fri., Sep. 27, 2013

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